I've had to implement pagination quite a few times with Angular, and it was always a bit of a pain for something that I felt could be simplified. I've used some of the ideas presented here and elsewhere to make a pagination module that makes pagination as simple as:
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// then somewhere else on the page ....
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That's it. It has the following features:
No custom code needed in your controller to tie the collection items to the pagination links.
You aren't bound to using a table or gridview - you can paginate anything you can ng-repeat!
Delegates to ng-repeat, so you can use any expression that could be validly used in an ng-repeat, including filtering, ordering etc.
Works across controllers - the pagination-controls directive does not need to know anything about the context in which the paginate directive is called.