AngularJS ngRepeat element removal

Question

You could create a generic remove method that would take in the array and the item to remove.

<div ng-app="" ng-controller="MyController">
    <div ng-repeat="email in emails">{{ email }} <a ng-click="remove(emails, $index)">Remove</a>
    </div>
    <div ng-repeat="phone in phones">{{ phone }} <a ng-click="remove(phones, $index)">Remove</a>
    </div>
</div>

$scope.remove = function(array, index){
    array.splice(index, 1);
}

No JS

<div ng-repeat="option in options" ng-init=options=[1,2,3,4,5]>
   <button ng-click="options.splice($index,1)">Remove me</button>      
</div>

<div ng-app="" ng-controller="MyController">
    <div ng-repeat="email in emails as datasource">{{ email }} 
        <a ng-click="datasource.splice($index,1)">Remove</a>
    </div>
    <div ng-repeat="phone in phones as datasource">{{ phone }} 
        <a ng-click="datasource.splice($index,1)">Remove</a>
    </div>
</div>

A very simple and convenient way that works cross-browser is to use the 'remove' utility method from the library lodash.

<div ng-repeat="phone in phones">{{ phone }} 
  <a ng-click="removeItem(phones, phone)">Remove</a>
</div>

In your controller you declare then

//inject lodash dependency

//declare method in scope
$scope.removeItem = function(list, item){
   lodash.remove(list,function(someItem) { return item === someItem});
}

You may of course use indexes if you like. See https://lodash.com/docs#remove

If you have used ng-repeat on an object instead of an array, do the following.

<div ng-app="" ng-controller="MyController">
    <div ng-repeat="email in emails">{{ email }} 
      <a ng-click="remove(emails, email)">Remove</a>
    </div>
    <div ng-repeat="phone in phones">{{ phone }} 
      <a ng-click="remove(phones, phone)">Remove</a>
    </div>
</div>

$scope.remove = function(objects, o){
    delete object[o.id];
}

or the more terse

<div ng-app="" ng-controller="MyController">
    <div ng-repeat="email in emails">{{ email }} 
      <a ng-click="delete emails[email.id]">Remove</a>
    </div>
    <div ng-repeat="phone in phones">{{ phone }} 
      <a ng-click="delete phones[phone.id]">Remove</a>
    </div>
</div>

presumes that the objects look like this

var emails = {  '123' : { id : '123', .... }  };

var phones = {  '123' : { id : '123', .... }  };