Using Isotope with AngularJS (ng-repeat)

Question

I'm trying to use angular to load div's to supply to isotope for layouting. For some reason, I can't use ng-repeat to create the div's. When I do something like, it works fine:

[agg.html]

<div class="mygrid" iso-grid>
    <div class="item">myitem</div>
</div>

[controlers.js]

module.directive('isoGrid', function () {
    return function (scope, element, attrs) {
        element.isotope({
            itemSelector: '.item'
        });
    };
});

module.controller('aggViewport', ['$scope', '$location', function ($scope, $location) {
    $scope.cards = [{
        "ID": "myid",
        "class": "cardListTile",
        "badge": "1"
    } {
        "ID": "myid2",
        "class": "cardListTile",
        "badge": "2"
    }]
}]);

While the above works ok, when I try to use ng-repeat from angular, the div's seem to become invisible (they are in the dom, but I can't see them). I've tried calling isotope('reloadItems') and isotope('reLayout'), but it doesn't seem to help.

[agg.html]

<div class="mygrid" iso-grid ng-repeat="card in cards">
    <div class="item">myitem</div>
</div>

How can I use ng-repeat ?

Answer 1

Try $watching the list variable (cards), and whenever it changes re-apply the isotope. I think your problem is isotope is running before the ng-repeat is filled in.

Quick example:

scope.$watch(attrs.ngModel, function() {
  elm.isotope();
});