random orderBy in AngularJS 1.2 returns 'infdig' errors

Question

Using the random orderBy sort technique in this question works fine in AngularJS 1.1.

var myApp = angular.module(\'myApp\',[]);

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Answer 1

You can solve this in an Angular way with a simple custom filter. Here I'm using the underscore shuffle method which implements Fischer-Yates.

You could substitute the guts of the shuffle with your own algorithm if you prefer.

angular.module('shuffle', [])
  .filter('shuffle', function() {
    return function(ary) {
      return _.shuffle(ary);
    }
  });

We can now pipe our array through this filter, like so:

The filter will be called once when the template is rendered.