Way to ng-repeat defined number of times instead of repeating over array?

Question

Is there a way to ng-repeat a defined number of times instead of always having to iterate over an array?

For example, below I want the list item to show

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this. I was really bothered at having the logic in my controller so I created a simple directive to solve the problem of repeating an element n-times.

Installation:

The directive can be installed using bower install angular-repeat-n

Example:

{{$index}}

produces: 1234

It also works using a scope variable:

Source:

Github