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

If you want to get unique data based on the nested key:

app.filter('unique', function() {
        return function(collection, primaryKey, secondaryKey) { //optional secondary key
          var output = [], 
              keys = [];

          angular.forEach(collection, function(item) {
                var key;
                secondaryKey === undefined ? key = item[primaryKey] : key = item[primaryKey][secondaryKey];

                if(keys.indexOf(key) === -1) {
                  keys.push(key);
                  output.push(item);
                }
          });

          return output;
        };
    });

Call it like this :