AngularJS ng-repeat handle empty list case
You can use ngShow.
<li ng-show="!events.length">No events</li>See example.
Or you can use ngHide
<li ng-hide="events.length">No events</li>See example.
For object you can test Object.keys.
And if you want to use this with a filtered list here's a neat trick:
<ul> <li ng-repeat="item in filteredItems = (items | filter:keyword)"> ... </li></ul><div ng-hide="filteredItems.length">No items found</div>
You might want to check out the angular-ui directive ui-if if you just want to remove the ul from the DOM when the list is empty:
<ul ui-if="!!events.length"> <li ng-repeat="event in events">{{event.title}}</li></ul>