It is for variables, but that's just because Angular has such an elegant way of iterating through loops: <li ng-repeat="friend in friends"> {{friend.na

It is for variables, but that's just because Angular has such an elegant way of iterating through loops: <li ng-repeat="friend in friends"> {{friend.name}} who is {{friend.age}} years old. </li> It's the ng-directive, and it's just one example of why directives are so awesome and powerful: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive