Deep copying objects in angular?

Your question says you want to “avoid deep copy”, but I’m not sure that’s accurate. It sounds like you just want to use angular.copy, because you need to create a copy of the team member and add that to the array:

$scope.addTeamMember = function(teamMember) {
   var newTeamMember = angular.copy(teamMember);
   $scope.team.teamMembers.push(newTeamMember);
};