In addition to what others have said: If the individual cells in your grid aren't changing dynamically, you can use a one-time-binding[1] which will improve pe

In addition to what others have said: If the individual cells in your grid aren't changing dynamically, you can use a one-time-binding[1] which will improve performance by removing the watchers after the expression is populated. You can also always use a directive to do the DOM management yourself, and still use Angular-y templating in the rest of your app. [1] https://code.angularjs.org/1.4.6/docs/guide/expression#one-time-binding https://code.angularjs.org/1.4.6/docs/guide/expression#one-t...