AngularJS how to do lazy load of images with filters

Question

I'm developing an angular application where the main page loads 1000 images, but the user can only look at 20 at a time. I will also have several filters on my list, so that it can be filtered and sorted based on different criteria.

I've tried http://binarymuse.github.io/ngInfiniteScroll/# and http://ngscroller.herokuapp.com/ but neither seems to work that well.

Ngscroller does work but it breaks when I try to apply my filters. I also prefer this one since it does not require me to include jquery. Are there any simple directives out there that can do what I need to? I'm trying to speed up my web page but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there is something out there which already accomplishes this.

Here is my attempt with ngScroller: http://plnkr.co/edit/r0uhV3OxT2USxmrBQk22?p=preview

<div class="content" ng-controller="MainController" ng-scroller="content">
  <ul class="list" ng-scroller-repeat="item in items | filter:idOver500k | orderBy:predicate:!reverse">
    <li class="item">{{item.text}}</li>
  </ul>
</div>

The scroll works without the filter and orderBy, but I'm looking for a method that will handle all cases.

It takes at least 3 seconds longer to load my page than it does if I remove the images. It looks like angular is loading only when all of the images are obtained. What is the best way to handle this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Demo with ng-infinite-scroll: http://plnkr.co/edit/O5w0Fp

ng-infinite-scroll has different mechanism with ng-scroller. infinite-scroll will trigger a loadMore function when user scroll to the bottom. You can define loadMore function yourself.

I created a lazyLoad filter to only only return part of the filtered items, managed by counter variable. When scroll to the bottom, counter will be incremented by one to return more items from lazyLoad filter.

When user change the order by parameter, counter will be reset to 1.

When counter equals 1, it will load the first 30 items.

Notes

It may have problem if the height of document.body is less than the height of window, because that way document will not be able to scroll thus will not trigger scroll event. You have to manually check the heights and trigger loadMoreItems accordingly.

The problem will occur while page initialize or counter reset.

I added adjustCounter function to run after reset the counter. ng-infinite-scroll will handle this when page load internally.