AngularJS Web application development Cookbook

Building a search filter from scratch

The provided search filters can serve your application's purposes only to a point. Eventually, you will need to construct a complete solution in order to filter an enumerable collection.

Getting ready

Suppose that your controller contains the following data object:

(app.js)

angular.module('myApp', [])
.controller('Ctrl', function($scope) {
  $scope.users = [
    { 
      firstName: 'John',
      lastName: 'Stockton',
      number: '12'
    },
    {
      firstName: 'Michael',
      lastName: 'Jordan',
      number: '23'
    },
    {
      firstName: 'Allen',
      lastName: 'Iverson',
      number: '3'
    }
  ];
});

How to do it…

Suppose you wanted to create an OR filter for the name and number values. The brute force way to do this is to create an entirely new filter in order to replace the ...