Angular — Master filters

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Filters are very handy to format data displayed to the user. Common use cases are currency, dates and numbers. Other less common filters are: uppercase, lowercase, limitTo, orderBy and json.

In this post, you will learn how to:

• Inject a filter
• Default Angular filters
• Basic filter usage
• Passing parameters to a filter
• Chaining filters
• Filter composition

You will find a sample code at the end. Let’s get started!

Inject a filter

Common filters

Basic filter usage

Passing parameters to a filter

Chaining filters

Expression filter composition (within ng-repeat)

You can compose multiple filter expressions by using parenthesis like

( object | filter : param ) + ( object | filter : param )

An example appending $index to a previous filter

Demo code: link

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