fa-animate-enter what am I missing? - famous-angular

Question

Pretty sure I have some fundamental mis-understanding of how/when fa-animate-enter is invoked. The following code works if you click on the box, it scales, but I was expecting that when the fa-view becomes active, it would also call the fa-animate-enter rather than necessitating a click. When a view becomes active, how do I call animateScale_enter()?
http://plnkr.co/edit/r2OSonPSvAQREAHvns7F
<fa-view fa-animate-enter="animateScale_enter()"
fa-animate-leave="animateScale_leave()"
fa-animate-halt="animateScale_halt()" >
<fa-modifier fa-origin="[0.5, 0.5]"
fa-align="[0.5, 0.5]"
fa-scale="scale.get()"
>
<fa-surface fa-background-color="'#dc322f'"
fa-size="[100, 100]"
fa-click="animateScale_enter()"
>{{text}}
</fa-surface>
</fa-modifier>
</fa-view>
.js
<script>
var app=angular.module('MyApp', ['famous.angular'])
.controller('MainController',
function($scope, $famous) {
var Transitionable = $famous['famous/transitions/Transitionable'];
var SpringTransition = $famous['famous/transitions/SpringTransition'];
Transitionable.registerMethod('spring', SpringTransition);
$scope.viewType="view2";
$scope.text="Scale=[1,1,1], click";
$scope.scale = new Transitionable([1, 1, 1]);
$scope.animateScale_enter = function() {
console.log("enter");
$scope.text="Scale=[2,2,1], enter";
$scope.scale.set([2, 2, 1], {
method: 'spring',
period: 750,
dampingRatio: 0.3
});
};
$scope.animateScale_leave = function() {
console.log("leave");
};
$scope.animateScale_halt = function() {
console.log("halt");
scope.transform.halt()
};
}
);
</script>

Answer 1

Apparently it is connected to ng-repeat, and from what I gather, anything that forces a dom update... ??
So just adding a dummy ng-repeat to the fa-view seems to make it work.
<fa-view ng-repeat="x in {x:1}"
fa-animate-enter="animateScale_enter()"
fa-animate-leave="animateScale_leave()"
fa-animate-halt="animateScale_halt()" >
I hope someone can give me a better way to do this. I just feel dirty doing it this way.