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Marcos Henrique
Marcos Henrique

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Faster way to appendElements in js πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

🚧 Spoiler:

This post is about how to dramatically decrease your UI loading time for a better UX!

The cute little but scandalous cry of the early morning πŸ˜₯

Anyone knows a common pitfall (πŸ’£) is the method used to append elements to the DOM

In my innocence of curious developer I was fiddling with old code to evaluate its performance, and I was scared even without using any framework to add elements in the DOM was with

27s to insert all the 330 components of a template from my UI in a async request.

(I mean the not so efficient JQuery, because I had the task of passing a whole project to pure javascript, but this is subject to another post).

Against a dirty diaper πŸ˜¬πŸ’©

I was using the classic innerHTML to add them to the view, which fit me at the moment this would be the fastest way πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

and using console.time to evaluate performance, I got a high time as seen below

Using the moist handkerchief in my tiny, cuddly conflict, I reflected existentially: How to improve it?

After some time meditating on the forums, I wrote the following function

The ninja diaper changer 🀸

Therefore in console.time I saw a incredible 26.73s of improvemment πŸ§πŸ‘Œ

Thanks for reading!πŸ™ŒπŸΌ

I am a FullStack Developer who is enthusiastic about new technologies and enhancements, and also a first-time dad 😊
This is my first post, and with it I open the way to a greater participation in the community, any doubt contact me 🍻

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Andrei Gatej • Edited

I think you can improve the performance even more if you clone the element, instead of creating one every time.

It’s just an idea, here is an example.

Good luck!

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Marcos Henrique

Hi Andrei, I can't see a solid example in your link, Can you pass this example for me?

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Andrei Gatej

Hi! Yes, I can’t see the initial example either. They might have changed some stuff in the meanwhile.

There was just a small article showing some benchmark results. As far as I could understood, it is slightly faster to clone elements, but when working on small apps this should not be a concern.

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Marcos Henrique

Thanks for the reply, I Will study Thais, for improve my codes 🀩