react-virtualscroll

Virtual Scroll displays a virtual, "infinite" list. Supports multi-column.

About

This module displays a small subset of records just enough to fill the viewport and uses the same DOM elements as the user scrolls. This method is effective because the number of DOM elements are always constant and tiny irrespective of the size of the list. Thus virtual scroll can display infinitely growing list of items in an efficient way.

• React compatible module
• Supports multi-column
• Easy to use apis
• OpenSource and available in GitHub

Usage

  <VirtualScroll className="flx flxw"
    items={this.state.items}
    onChange={(event) => this.setState(event)}
    renderItem={this.renderItem.bind(this)} />

Get Started

Step 1: Install react-virtualscroll

npm install react-virtualscroll --save

Step 2: Import virtual scroll module into your app module

import { VirtualScroll } from 'react-virtualscroll';

Step 3: Wrap virtual-scroll tag around list items;

 <VirtualScroll className="flx flxw"
    items={this.state.items}
    onChange={(event) => this.setState(event)}
    renderItem={this.renderItem.bind(this)} />

Step 4: Create 'renderItem' function.

renderItem(item) {
  return <div key={item.index} className="flx mb1 divider-b primary">
    <div className="fw1">{item.name}</div>
  </div>
}

API

Attribute	Type	Description
items	any[]	The data that builds the templates within the virtual scroll. This is the same data that you'd pass to ngFor. It's important to note that when this data has changed, then the entire virtual scroll is refreshed.
childWidth	number	The minimum width of the item template's cell. This dimension is used to help determine how many cells should be created when initialized, and to help calculate the height of the scrollable area. Note that the actual rendered size of the first cell is used by default if not specified.
childHeight	number	The minimum height of the item template's cell. This dimension is used to help determine how many cells should be created when initialized, and to help calculate the height of the scrollable area. Note that the actual rendered size of the first cell is used by default if not specified.
onStart	Event	This event is fired every time start reaches 0
onEnd	Event	This event is fired every time end reaches total number of items in items array
onUpdate	Event	This event is fired every time start or end index change and emits list of items from start to end. The list emitted by this event must be used with *ngFor to render the actual list of items within <virtual-scroll>
onChange	Event	This event is fired every time start or end index change and emits ChangeEvent which of format: { start: number, end: number }

Items with variable size

Items must have fixed height and width for this module to work perfectly. However if your list happen to have items with variable width and height, set inputs childWidth and childHeight to the smallest possible values to make this work.

 <VirtualScroll className="flx flxw"
    items={this.state.items}
    childWidth={80}
    childHeight={30}
    onChange={(event) => this.setState(event)}
    renderItem={this.renderItem.bind(this)} />

Loading in chunk

The event onEnd is fired every time scroll reaches at the end of the list. You could use this to load more items at the end of the scroll. See below.

  render() {
  return <VirtualScroll className="flx flxw"
    items={this.state.items}
    onEnd={(event) => this.fetchMore()}
    renderItem={this.renderItem.bind(this)} />
  }
 
  ....
 
  fetchMore(event) {
    if (event.end !== this.buffer.length) return;
    this.fetchNextChunk(this.buffer.length, 10).then(chunk => {
      this.setState(state => ({ items: state.items.concat(chunk) }))
    })
  }
 
  fetchNextChunk(skip: number, limit: number): Promise<ListItem[]> {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        ....
    });
  }
}

If container size change

If virtual scroll is used within a dropdown or collapsible menu, virtual scroll needs to know when the container size change. Use refresh() function after container is resized (include time for animation as well).

Sorting Items

Always be sure to send an immutable copy of items to virtual scroll to avoid unintended behavior. You need to be careful when doing non-immutable operations such as sorting:

sort() {
  this.setState(state => ({
    items: [].concat(state.items || []).sort()
  }))
}

This will be deprecated once Resize Observer is fully implemented.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Just send a pull request. Feel free to contact me or checkout my GitHub page.

Author

Rinto Jose (rintoj)

Hope this module is helpful to you. If you are looking for Angular version please check https://github.com/rintoj/angular2-virtual-scroll Please make sure to checkout my other projects and articles. Enjoy coding!

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Versions

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License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Rinto Jose (rintoj)

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