Custom directive (like ng-repeat)

Question

I've tried many different things to fix performance issues of ng-repeat. including stuff described here: How to 'unwatch' an expression

I need to have a large set of rows on the page up to ~1000 rows. With every row containing quite a bit of stuff. And it seems to me now, it's just would be very slow with ng-repeat, I guess I have to build either my own custom ng-repeat or I have to build a directive that will build every single row in the table... I don't know how to do either. Can you guys help me please. Can you show me some examples.

Answer 1

Here is an example of populating a <dl> with <dt>s and <dd>s ...

Step 01 - create a widge.product.details.js

// binds to $scope.details = [] //array object

angular.module('widget.product.details',[])
  .directive('productDetails',function(){
   return {
    template:'<dl class="dl-horizontal"></dl>',
    replace:true,
    restrict:'E',
    compile : function compile(tElement, tAttrs, transclude) {
     return {
      post: createProductDetails
     }
    }
   }
  });

var createProductDetails = function (scope, iElement, iAttrs, controller) {
    scope.$watch('details', function(newVal, oldVal) {
    angular.forEach(newVal, function(v,k){
        iElement.append( angular.element('<dt>'+v.dt+'</dt><dd>'+v.dd+'</dd>') );
        });
    });
}

Step 02 - create your html

<div class="span7" ng-controller="ProductInfoCtrl">
 <product-details></product-details>
</div>

Step 03 - create a app.product.js

function ProductInfoCtrl($scope) {
 $scope.details = [
                   {dt:'condition',dd:'brand new'},
                   {dt:'year bought',dd:'3 years ago'},
                   ]
}

Answer 2

angular.module('setRepeat',[]).directive('setRepeat', function () {

  return {
    transclude: 'element',
    priority: 1000,
    compile: compileFun
  };

  function compileFun(element, attrs, linker) {
      var expression = attrs.setRepeat.split(' in ');
      expression = {
        child : expression[0],
        property : expression[1]
      };

      return {
        post: repeat
      };

      function repeat(scope, iele, iattrs /*, attr*/) {
        var template = element[0].outerHTML;
        var data = scope.$eval(expression.property);
        addElements(data,scope,iele);

        return;

        function makeNewScope (index, expression, value, scope, collection) {
          var childScope = scope.$new();
          childScope[expression] = value;
          childScope.$index = index;
          childScope.$first = (index === 0);
          childScope.$last = (index === (collection.length - 1));
          childScope.$middle = !(childScope.$first || childScope.$last);

          /**
          *
          * uncomment this if you want your children to keep listening for changes
          *
          **/

          //childScope.$watch(function updateChildScopeItem(){
            //childScope[expression] = value;
          //});
          return childScope;
        }

        function addElements (collection, scope, insPoint) {
          var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
          var newElements = [], element, idx, childScope;

          angular.forEach(data, function(v,i){
            childScope = makeNewScope(i,expression.child,v,scope,collection);
            element = linker(childScope, angular.noop);
            newElements.push(element);
            frag.appendChild(element[0]);
          });

          insPoint.after(frag);
          return newElements;
        }
      }
  }

});