When to favor ng-if vs. ng-show/ng-hide?

Question

I understand that ng-show and ng-hide affect the class set on an element and that ng-if controls whether an element is rendered as par

Answer 1

One important note:

ngIf (unlike ngShow) usually creates child scopes that may produce unexpected results.

I had an issue related to this and I've spent MUCH time to figure out what was going on.

(My directive was writing its model values to the wrong scope.)

So, to save your hair just use ngShow unless you run too slow.

The performance difference is barely noticable anyway and I am not sure yet on who's favour is it without a test...