How do I only show an element if nested ng-repeat is not empty?

Question

I have a List of lists, created with a nested ng-repeat. Each outer ng-repeat contains a div with the label of its inner list (eg: "Group A"). I'm now trying to create a way to avoid showing this label if the inner list is empty due to filtering(Applied by an input searchtext)

Here is a plunker explaining my issue and my attempted solution : Plnkr

Having a 'heavy' function like isGroupEmpty seems extremely cumbersome - Is there any way to do this in a much simpler fashion? I was toying with the idea of moving the label inside the inner ng-repeat and having ng-show="$first" but it doesnt look great

Answer 1

I ended up with the following solution which worked perfectly. Plnkr

By setting a variable in the inner ng-repeat I was able to evaluate ng-show based on this variables length like so :

<input ng-model='searchText'/>
<span ng-show='filtered.length > 0'>
  <ul>
    <li ng-repeat='el in filtered = (model | filter:searchText)'>
      <div>{{el.label}}</div>
    </li>
  </ul>
</span>