Guido Flohr

In a previous post I had illustrated that a regular AngularJS filter is seldom sufficient to implement a search because the data displayed differs significantly from the data stored in the application model. Today I will present a solution to the problem that applies the filter to exactly what the user sees.

With angular filters you can realize full text searches in small data sets with minimal efforts. This is at least what the documentation suggests. In real-world applications, a naïve application of filters to the data model usually leads to more or less arbitrary behavior.

Tables and lists can be sorted very easily and in a very flexible manner in AngularJS. However, lines being edited may move around up and down, when the property that is used for sorting is changed.