Ok, it's the repetition. The array cannot contain the same value twice. ["a","a","a"]
fails silently, ["a","b","c"]
works. Why is this?
Edit: Error: ngRepeat:dupes - Duplicate Key in Repeater
Duplicate keys are banned because AngularJS uses keys to associate DOM nodes with items.
Wow. Funny how I've never run into this before - I've been tinkering w. Node-RED on & off for years. A somewhat surprising feature of Angular.JS which probably should be mentioned in any ng-repeat
tuts & boilerplate. Might save someone else the headache. The solution (if your array may contain duplicate values) is to tell Angular to generate DOM references by index instead:
<table>
<tr ng-repeat="value in msg.payload track by $index">
<td>{{value}}</td>
</tr>
</table>
Edit 2: And of course all this can be seen in the JS error console, plain as day - the error message even includes a link to the article on Angular's website... Doh!