AngularJS: Creating headers in an ng-repeat

I came across this great directive here to create headers based on sections in an ng-repeat. The cides works like a charm.

Here is a copy.

// html
<div ng-repeat="item in data.items | orderBy:... | filter:... as filteredItems" header-list objects="filteredItems" header="getHeader">
    <div ng-show="item.$header">{{item.$header}}</div>
    <div>Your normal content</div>
 </div>

// controller function
$scope.getHeader = function(item) {
  return item.name.slice(0, 1);
}

// directive
app.module("...").directive('headerList', function () {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    scope: {
      objects: '=',
      header: '=' // This must be a function or instance method
    },
    link: function(scope) {
      scope.$watch('objects', function() {

        var lastHeader, currentHeader;

        scope.objects.forEach(function (obj) {
          // We pass obj twice, so it can be used is instance method or regular function that takes the object as argument.
          currentHeader = scope.header.call(obj, obj);

          // in order to display a header per type, we mark the first event of each kind as header
          if (currentHeader !== lastHeader) {
            obj.$header = currentHeader;
            lastHeader = currentHeader;
          } else {
            obj.$header = null;
          }
        });

      });
    }
  }
});