vertical-collection VS react-virtualized

Recently I had an interesting case that I needed to have all options loaded client-side and the number of options was not small (several thousands). At this point I have learned that the component does not have any form of occlusion rendering, so that all the thousand options would just be spit into the DOM. Which is not great.

You may increase the rendering efficiency of tabular and huge list data by using the React Virtualized module. React apps perform better overall when the quantity of requests and DOM elements is limited. React Virtualized is comparable to many other tools; however, what sets it apart from the competition is the sheer volume of features and excellent upkeep.

17.react-virtualized

If you have been using React for awhile, you may have heard of the infamous virtualisation library react-window or it's predecessor react-virtualized

React Virtualized is a React library that helps you work with large lists and tabular data efficiently in React. It has more than 25K stars on GitHub and more than 2.5 million weekly downloads on NPM as of August 2023.

Use virtualization (e.g. react-virtualized) to prevent off-screen components from actually rendering.

Virtualization can be achieved using third-party libraries like react-window or react-virtualized. These libraries provide a way to render only the visible data and load more data as needed, resulting in faster application performance.

You can implement the same pattern on the web when dealing with large amount of data. There are some libraries for React that trivialize this, like https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized

Oh, right. I totally forgot to mention that– but the idea of "less rendering" in this case seems less like a Suspense concern and more like a windowing concern. I've written a few libraries for that stuff (react-window and react-virtualized) although there are others that may fit your needs better. Their main focus is limiting what you're rendering to more or less only what's on the screen at any given point. Combine that with memoized filtering and I would imagine you're set.

I've used the InfiniteLoader from react-virtualized in combination with useInfiniteQuery from @tanstack/react-query and it was relatively painless.

Here’s a react library https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized