You can debounce your web calls. Here is an example: http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-debounce-function http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-debounce-function Th

You can debounce your web calls. Here is an example: http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-debounce-function http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-debounce-function This means that you do not make a web call for each keystroke. That is a huge speedup. I don't know why you would need to leverage Angular to make a typeahead, but it's a nice writeup nonetheless.