Is there a limit to how much data I should cache in browser memory?

Question

I need to load a couple thousand records of user data (user contacts in a contact-management system, to be precise) from a REST service and run a seach on them. Unfortunately, t

Answer 1

You can manage tens of thousands of records safely in the browser. I'm running search & sorting benchmarks with jOrder (http://github.com/danstocker/jorder) on such datasets with no problem.