Seeing Through the Scroll: The Inspiration Behind Vue-Infinity
!TL;DR
Vue-Infinity helps you build resource-efficient UIs by only keeping visible parts of your app in memory. It also includes a general-purpose carousel that can scroll through unlimited items without burning through RAM.
The first time I saw virtual scrolling in action, I was blown away. Instead of rendering everything and letting the browser catch fire, you render only what’s visible!
This idea isn’t new, and it is common in 3D rendering, but it’s still surprisingly rare on the web. And yet, we’re building apps with endless scrolls, media-heavy feeds, and data-rich lists. No wonder browsers have a reputation for being laptop assasins.
This is where Vue-Infinity comes in.
The Core Idea
Most apps either render everything (which bloats memory) or rely on virtual scrollers that use absolute positioning and tightly controlled layouts. Vue-Infinity offers a third way: unload any part of your UI when it's not visible, and build scrollable lists with a naturally flowing DOM that's easy to style and work with.
👻 Ghost
Wrap any part of your UI in this component to automatically unload it from memory when it scrolls out of view. The space stays reserved using a placeholder.
Video unloads when not visible.
Video by Giorgi Chkhaidze from Pexels:
Drone footage of a forested mountain range at sunset
Status: Loaded
Scroll down to unload the video.
🪂 InfiniteCarousel
A scrollable, grid-like component that lets you display as many items as you want, while only rendering those currently in view. Perfect for carousels, grids, or feed-style layouts—without absolute positioning hacks.
Showing: sea images
Why Not Use X?
There are excellent virtual scrollers out there:
But they use absolute positioning, which breaks natural features like scroll snapping and in general are harder to work with. That’s when I knew I wanted something different—something that plays nicely with how browsers already work.
Vue-Infinity keeps your DOM layout intact and simply unloads out what's not visible.
🔬 Try It
You can check out a live demo here:
👉 https://tewolde.co/vueInfinity
🤝 Get Involved
Vue-Infinity is still young but already is well packed with features. If you're curious, building with it, or spot something that could be better—come say hi on GitHub.