I have searched Google and can\'t find anything on this.
I have this code.
I think, after the inclusion of 'track by', you can use it in ng-options to get what you wanted, like the following
This way of doing it is better because when you want to replace the list of strings with list of objects you will just change this to
where somethingHere is an object with the properties name and id, of course. Please note, 'as' is not used in this way of expressing the ng-options, because it will only set the value and you will not be able to change it when you are using track by