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AngularJS: Directive for checking # of watchers in scope

Posted on February 29, 2016 3 Comments

Performance is key in web development. Many developers forget this since there machines usually are more powerful then the average user machine. This is really important to take into account when building client side applications. In AngularJS the ng-repeat can be a source of bad performance, it’s super convenient to use but can create both […]

AngularJS: $digest loop when filtering array of objects

Posted on February 8, 2016 1 Comment

Ran into trouble trying to use a filter to sort an array of objects in AngularJS. Basic issue is because the array of objects is passed to the filter by reference. This is not unique to AngularJS, javascript always passed arrays by reference. Since AngularJS watches for changes in the array the sort will fire […]