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Isaac Tewolde
Isaac Tewolde

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Vue-Infinity: Visibility-Based Rendering for Vue

In 3D rendering, we don’t draw the whole world — we only render what the camera can see. What if we applied that same principle to the web?

Instead of rendering your entire UI and letting the user scroll through it, Vue-Infinity flips the model: it renders only what the user can currently see, and unloads everything else. The result is a more memory-efficient, responsive, and browser-friendly interface — especially for feeds, carousels, and scrollable lists.

Traditional virtual scroll libraries do something similar, but often rely on absolute positioning and tightly controlled layouts. That works — but it breaks natural flow, makes scroll snapping unreliable, and complicates styling. Vue-Infinity takes a different approach: it preserves the natural structure of your DOM, ensuring that layouts behave exactly as you’d expect — just with invisible, off-screen parts cleanly stripped away.

⚡ What It Is

A small Vue toolkit that acts like an optimization layer over the DOM:

  • 👻 Ghost: Wrap any part of your UI and it’ll automatically unload when it’s no longer visible — freeing up memory while keeping layout stable.
  • 🪂 InfiniteCarousel: A scrollable component that lets you render unlimited items, while only mounting what’s in view. Easy to style, no absolute positioning tricks.

🧪 Try It Out


Got feedback, ideas, or a use case in mind? I’d love to hear from you.

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