v-ons-lazy-repeat

Using this component a list with millions of items can be rendered without a drop in performance. It does that by “lazily” loading elements into the DOM when they come into view and removing items from the DOM when they are not visible.

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Infinite lists

In mobile apps it is often necessary to display very large lists of items. One problem with this is that a large number of DOM elements must be created which can affect performance.

Onsen UI provides an element called VOnsLazyRepeat which helps rendering large numbers of items. It will automatically calculate what elements are visible and only render those. When the user scrolls, it will remove items that are outside the screen and add elements that become visible dynamically.

Notice that for a simple “load more items” functionality, it is recommended to use VOnsPage‘s infiniteScroll prop instead.

Using the component

VOnsLazyRepeat must we used inside the container component that will held all the items. Frequently it is used together with VOnsList:

<v-ons-list>
  <v-ons-lazy-repeat ...props></v-ons-lazy-repeat>
</v-ons-list>

The items will be rendered as siblings of VOnsLazyRepeat.

Defining an infinite list

VOnsLazyRepeat needs at least two props: length and renderItem. The first one is just a number that indicates the maximum amount of items that could be virtually displayed. The second one must be a generator function like the following:

renderItem(index) {
  return {
    template: `<v-ons-list-item>...</v-ons-list-item>`;
    // Set item data using 'index'
  };
}

The requirement is that it must return an object describing a Vue component to be attached in the parent list. The generator function gets the index of the item in the list (absolute index, not the index of the visible list) that can be used to initialize the item’s data.

Calculating the height

VOnsLazyRepeat can dynamically calculate the height of every item once they are rendered, but in order to know how many items it should render beforehand we must provide a hint. By default, VOnsLazyRepeat pre-renders the very first item and takes its height to do the calculations.

However, it is also possible to pass an optional calculateItemHeight function prop that gets the element index and returns its approximate height. This can enhance the calculations and allow better scrolling.

calculateItemHeight(index) {
  return myItems[index].image.height;
}

See also

Name Type Description
calculateItemHeight Function This function gets an index as its first argument and should return the expected height of the item. This is useful to ease calculations and possibly achieve a better scrolling. Optional.
length Number Total number of items. Required.
renderItem Function Item generator. This function gets an index as its first argument and must return an object describing a Vue component. The index should be used to get the necessary data for the new item. Required.
Name Description
refresh VOnsLazyRepeat listens for refresh events in the parent context in order to trigger a refresh when the items change. E.g. $emit('refresh'). It is also possible to call $refs.lazyRepeat.refresh() instead.
refresh

VOnsLazyRepeat listens for refresh events in the parent context in order to trigger a refresh when the items change. E.g. $emit('refresh'). It is also possible to call $refs.lazyRepeat.refresh() instead.

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