How to show div when link is clicked with ng-show angular js - angularjs

Question

first off, i have links from a json and display it using ng-repeat and i want to know if its best practise to load all object property (in a div) corresponding to its link and hide it so when you click a link, the corresponding div shows.
I'm thinking about the worst case scenario, were we have about a 100 links and the load all corresponding divs and hide it o_O
So this is my html:
<a href="">
<div ng-model="showModal" class="contentItem" ng-repeat='meal in recipes | filter:searchText' ng-style="{'background-image':'url({{ meal.url }})'}">
<span id="contentItemHeader">{{ meal.title }}</span>
<span id="contentItemLevel">{{ meal.level }}</span>
</div>
</a>
This is the div (modal) i want to display in full screen:
<div ng-show="showModal" ng-repeat='meal in recipes'>
<span>{{ meal.url }}</span>
<span>{{ meal.method }}</span>
<span>{{ meal.ingredients }}</span>
</div>
Use case is:
-all links loads
-click a link
-corresponding div shows
Thats it ! just like when you see a list of videos on youtube, you click one, then the video page opens but as a modal (same page)
Thanks alot,
regards

Answer 1

You can utilize $modal service from the UI Bootstrap, define template for meal's modal and attach ng-click handler on each individual meal in ng-repeat. In click handle you can open modal and pass meal instance to modal's scope:
View:
<div ng-repeat='meal in recipes' ng-click='selectMeal(meal)'>
{{meal.title}}
</div>
Conrtoller:
$scope.selectMeal = function(meal) {
var dialogScope = $scope.$new(true);
dialogScope.meal = meal;
var modalInstannce = $modal.open({
templateUrl: 'meal-dialog.html',
scope: dialogScope
});
};
Modal template:
<div class="modal-header">
<h3 class="modal-title">{{ meal.title }}</h3>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<div>{{ meal.url }}</div>
<div>{{ meal.method }}</div>
<hr />
<h4>Ingridients</h4>
<ul >
<li ng-repeat='ingridient in meal.ingridients' >{{ingridient.name}} : {{ingridient.amount}}</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button class="btn btn-primary" ng-click="$close()">Close</button>
</div>
Plunker here
To show div in question, when meal selected, introduce new selectedMeal property in $scope and use it in modal template, remove ng-repeat from modal div and set selectedMeal and showModal in selectMeal function:
$scope.selectMeal = function(meal) {
$scope.selectedMeal = meal;
$scope.showModal = true;
};
<div ng-show="showModal" >
<span>{{ selectedMeal.url }}</span>
<span>{{ selectedMeal.method }}</span>
<span>{{ selectedMeal.ingredients }}</span>
</div>

Answer 2

if your worried about performance of having all the divs exist, but hidden, consider using ng-if instead of ng-show. ng-if does not create the dom element if the expression is false.
<div ng-if="expression">
//element exists if 'expression' is true
</div>

Answer 3

if you are ok to ahead with angular-ui then i think the accordian fits the requirement perfectly... [here's the link for angular-ui's the accordian] directive 1
angular-ui is the pure angularjs implementation of all twitter bootstrap components.
<accordion close-others="oneAtATime">
<accordion-group heading="Static Header, initially expanded" is-open="status.isFirstOpen" is-disabled="status.isFirstDisabled">
This content is straight in the template.
</accordion-group>
<accordion-group heading="{{group.title}}" ng-repeat="group in groups">
{{group.content}}
</accordion-group>
</accordian>
you can have either one or all user selected link detail section open at a time...