js-big-list

• Installation
• Use
• Example
• Documentation
• Benchmarks

Installation

yarn add @taystack/js-big-list

or with npm

npm i @taystack/js-big-list

Use

Small JavaScript library to help with managing the render process of large datasets on a frontend.

You don't want to render all of your items at once

Example

import BigList from "@taystack/js-big-list";


const items = new Array(100000).fill().map((_, i) => i); // 100,000 things

const itemsToRender = new BigList(100, items, x => x % 10 === 0);

itemsToRender.items;
// => [0, 10, 20,...,990];

itemsToRender.nextPage().items;
// => [1000, 1010,...,1990];

Documentation

new BigList(Number count, Array items, Function predicate)

Params:

param	type	use	default
count	Number	Maximum number of items returned	0
items	Array	The original items to be filtered	[]
predicate	Function	Works the same as Array.filter	() => true

Benchmarks

*** BigList benchmark against Array.filter.slice ***

*** filterPredicate = x => x % 10 === 0 ***
Items                BigList              Array.filter.slice
-----                -------              ------------------
10,000               0ms                  0ms
100,000              0ms                  2ms
1,000,000            0ms                  15ms
10,000,000           0ms                  149ms