Infinite scrolling with React JS

Question

I am looking at ways to implement infinite scrolling with React. I have come across react-infinite-scroll and found it inefficient as it just adds nodes to the DOM and doesn

Answer 1

Check out our React Infinite Library:

https://github.com/seatgeek/react-infinite

Update December 2016

I've actually been using react-virtualized in a lot of my projects recently and find that it covers the majority of use cases a lot better. Both libraries are good, it depends on exactly what you're looking for. For instance, react-virtualized supports variable height JIT measuring via an HOC called CellMeasurer, example here https://bvaughn.github.io/react-virtualized/#/components/CellMeasurer.

Update November 2018

A lot of the lessons from react-virtualized have been ported to the smaller, faster, more efficient react-window library from the same author.

Answer 2

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import InfiniteScroll from 'react-infinite-scroller';


const api = {
    baseUrl: '/joblist'
};

class Jobs extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
            super(props);
            this.state = {
                listData: [],
                hasMoreItems: true,
                nextHref: null
        };
    }

    fetchData(){
            var self = this;           
            var url = api.baseUrl;
            if(this.state.nextHref) {
                url = this.state.nextHref;
            }

            fetch(url)
            .then( (response) => {
                return response.json() })   
                    .then( (json) => {
                        var list = self.state.listData;                        
                        json.data.map(data => {
                            list.push(data);
                        });

                        if(json.next_page_url != null) {
                            self.setState({
                                nextHref: resp.next_page_url,
                                listData: list                               
                            });
                        } else {
                            self.setState({
                                hasMoreItems: false
                            });
                        }
                    })
                    .catch(error => console.log('err ' + error));

        }
    }

    componentDidMount() {
       this.fetchData();
    }

    render() {
    const loader = <div className="loader">Loading ...</div>;
    let JobItems; 
    if(this.state.listData){  
        JobItems = this.state.listData.map(Job => {
        return (
            <tr>
                <td>{Job.job_number}</td>
                <td>{Job.title}</td>
                <td>{Job.description}</td>
                <td>{Job.status}</td>
            </tr>
        );
      });
    }
    return (
      <div className="Jobs">
        <div className="container">
            <h2>Jobs List</h2>

            <InfiniteScroll
                pageStart={0}
                loadMore={this.fetchData.bind(this)}
                hasMore={this.state.hasMoreItems}
                loader={loader}>
                <table className="table table-bordered">
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>Job Number</th>
                        <th>Title</th>
                        <th>Description</th>
                        <th>Status</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                {JobItems}
                </tbody>
                </table>
            </InfiniteScroll>
        </div>
    </div>
    );
  }

}

export default Jobs;

Answer 3

Basically when scrolling you want to decide which elements are visible and then rerender to display only those elements, with a single spacer element on top and bottom to represent the offscreen elements.

Vjeux made a fiddle here which you can look at: jsfiddle.

Upon scrolling it executes

scrollState: function(scroll) {
    var visibleStart = Math.floor(scroll / this.state.recordHeight);
    var visibleEnd = Math.min(visibleStart + this.state.recordsPerBody, this.state.total - 1);

    var displayStart = Math.max(0, Math.floor(scroll / this.state.recordHeight) - this.state.recordsPerBody * 1.5);
    var displayEnd = Math.min(displayStart + 4 * this.state.recordsPerBody, this.state.total - 1);

    this.setState({
        visibleStart: visibleStart,
        visibleEnd: visibleEnd,
        displayStart: displayStart,
        displayEnd: displayEnd,
        scroll: scroll
    });
},

and then the render function will display only the rows in the range displayStart..displayEnd.

You may also be interested in ReactJS: Modeling Bi-Directional Infinite Scrolling.