angularjs - $first in ngRepeat

You can try approach with method invocation.

HTML

 

   
 {{item.title}}
   

JS

var fessmodule = angular.module('myModule', []);

fessmodule.controller('fessCntrl', function ($scope) {
   $scope.items = [
       {title: 'myTitle1', value: 'value1'},
       {title: 'myTitle2', value: 'value2'},
       {title: 'myTitle3', value: 'value1'},
       {title: 'myTitle4', value: 'value2'},
       {title: 'myTitle5', value: 'value1'}
   ];        


     $scope.rowClass = function(item, index){
         if(index == 0){
             return item.value;
         }
        return '';
    };        
});    
fessmodule.$inject = ['$scope'];

Demo Fiddle