Angularjs get request for a huge json file

Question

I need to display some data from a database to the user. The data is in a json file and has a pretty huge size. The size of json file is roughly around 15MB. I created a ser

Answer 1

Based on your requirements of dealing with essentially a huge JSON payload. FWIW you have two options:

• Your server supports HTTP/JSON streaming:

  create an angular onreadystatechange handler and use a streaming JSON parser like oboe.js

• Your server DOES NOT support HTTP/JSON streaming

  Do what everyone else is suggesting and provide a paginated access to that payload so that the browser can load it in chunks on demand.

Answer 2

Make your backend deliver the file in chunks, so that your angular frontend can retrieve part of it at a time.

Something like:

/backend/getentries?skip=500&count=100

The have your frontend repeatedly call the backend while counting up skip and append the results you are getting back to whatever you already have in the frontend.