How to use a keypress event in AngularJS?

My simplest approach using just angular build-in directive:

ng-keypress, ng-keydown or ng-keyup.

Usually, we want add keyboard support for something that already handled by ng-click.

for instance:

<a ng-click="action()">action</a>

Now, let's add keyboard support.

trigger by enter key:

<a ng-click="action()" 
   ng-keydown="$event.keyCode === 13 && action()">action</a>

by space key:

<a ng-click="action()" 
   ng-keydown="$event.keyCode === 32 && action()">action</a>

by space or enter key:

<a ng-click="action()" 
   ng-keydown="($event.keyCode === 13 || $event.keyCode === 32) && action()">action</a>

if you are in modern browser

<a ng-click="action()" 
   ng-keydown="[13, 32].includes($event.keyCode) && action()">action</a>

More about keyCode:
keyCode is deprecated but well supported API, you could use $evevt.key in supported browser instead.
See more in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/key

You need to add a directive, like this:

Javascript:

app.directive('myEnter', function () {
    return function (scope, element, attrs) {
        element.bind("keydown keypress", function (event) {
            if(event.which === 13) {
                scope.$apply(function (){
                    scope.$eval(attrs.myEnter);
                });

                event.preventDefault();
            }
        });
    };
});

HTML:

<div ng-app="" ng-controller="MainCtrl">
    <input type="text" my-enter="doSomething()">    
</div>

Another simple alternative:

<input ng-model="edItem" type="text" 
    ng-keypress="($event.which === 13)?foo(edItem):0"/>

And the ng-ui alternative:

<input ng-model="edItem" type="text" ui-keypress="{'enter':'foo(edItem)'}"/>

An alternative is to use standard directive ng-keypress="myFunct($event)"

Then in your controller you can have:

...

$scope.myFunct = function(keyEvent) {
  if (keyEvent.which === 13)
    alert('I am an alert');
}

...