Displaying Long Lists of Spec_Items

[pasetti]

Suppose that the user makes a request to display all items of a certain category and that the number of such items is very large (e.g. thousands of items). The back-end retrieves all items and converts them to display format. This could take very long and be unnecessary because the number of items actually displayed at any given time is very limited.

What can we do to make this process more efficient?

[pasetti]

One potential solution to this issue is the "infinite scroll" discussed here:

https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2017/03/13/how-to-create-infinite-scroll-with-django.html

Alternatively, I could break up the long list of items into pages which are called up and shown one-by-one. This is discussed here:

https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/08/03/how-to-paginate-with-django.html