How to make ng-repeat filter out duplicate results

Question

I\'m running a simple ng-repeat over a JSON file and want to get category names. There are about 100 objects, each belonging to a category - but there are only

Answer 1

Or you can write your own filter using lodash.

app.filter('unique', function() {
    return function (arr, field) {
        return _.uniq(arr, function(a) { return a[field]; });
    };
});