How to handle recursive rendering of data using AngularJS

rather than nest your controllers, nest the data and just have the one controller.

the view is handled by a template that references itself recursively.

as chadermani has linked to, there are some answers out there.

here is a fiddle with a great example (not my code)

http://jsfiddle.net/brendanowen/uXbn6/8/

and the code from the fiddle

<script type="text/ng-template"  id="tree_item_renderer.html">    {{data.name}}    <button ng-click="add(data)">Add node</button>    <button ng-click="delete(data)" ng-show="data.nodes.length > 0">Delete nodes</button>    <ul>        <li ng-repeat="data in data.nodes" ng-include="'tree_item_renderer.html'"></li>    </ul></script><ul ng-app="Application" ng-controller="TreeController">    <li ng-repeat="data in tree" ng-include="'tree_item_renderer.html'"></li></ul>angular.module("myApp", []).controller("TreeController", ['$scope', function($scope) {    $scope.delete = function(data) {        data.nodes = [];    };    $scope.add = function(data) {        var post = data.nodes.length + 1;        var newName = data.name + '-' + post;        data.nodes.push({name: newName,nodes: []});    };    $scope.tree = [{name: "Node", nodes: []}];}]);

If you are familiarized with batarang tool, it has a treeview of scopes. You can see the source here:

https://github.com/angular/angularjs-batarang/blob/master/js/directives/scopeTree.js

The idea is simple. Using $compile to recursively render that directive for every children it finds until there is no more children to render.

I saw that same idea for other alternatives, take a look here:

Is it possible to make a Tree View with Angular?

Try this for a nice clean example

http://codrspace.com/build80/create-recursive-tree-structure-using-template-in-angularjs/