virtua

A zero-config, fast and small virtual list and grid component for React, Vue, Solid, Svelte and Angular.

If you want to check the difference with the alternatives right away, see comparison section.

Motivation

This project is a challenge to rethink virtualization. The goals are...

Zero-config virtualization: This library is designed to give the best performance without configuration. It also handles common hard things in the real world (dynamic size measurement, scroll position adjustment while reverse scrolling and imperative scrolling, iOS support, etc).
Fast: Natural virtual scrolling needs optimization in many aspects (eliminate frame drops by reducing CPU usage and GC, reduce synchronous layout recalculation, reduce visual jumps on repaint, optimize with CSS, optimize for JIT, optimize for frameworks, etc). We are trying to combine the best of them.
Small: Its bundle size should be small as much as possible to be friendly with modern web development. Currently components start from ~3kB gzipped and are tree-shakeable.
Flexible: Aiming to support many usecases - fixed size, dynamic size, horizontal scrolling, reverse scrolling, table, RTL, mobile, infinite scrolling, scroll restoration, DnD, keyboard navigation, sticky and more. See live demo.
Framework agnostic: React, Vue, Solid, Svelte and Angular are supported. We could support other frameworks in the future.

Demo

https://inokawa.github.io/virtua/

Install

npm install virtua

If you want to support legacy browsers, you need polyfills.

ResizeObserver is always required (e.g. @juggle/resize-observer).
Scroll methods on elements are always required (e.g. element-scroll-polyfill).
CSS scroll-behavior is required only if you call scrollToIndex with smooth: true (e.g. scroll-behavior-polyfill).
CSS inset-inline-start is required only if you set horizontal: true. It cannot be polyfilled so use virtua@<=0.50 instead.
CSS subgrid is required for VGrid.

Getting started

React

react >= 16.14 is required.

If you use ESM and webpack 5, use react >= 18 to avoid Can't resolve react/jsx-runtime error.

Vertical scroll

import { VList } from "virtua";

// children
export const App = () => {
  return (
    <VList style={{ height: 800 }}>
      {Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => (
        <div
          key={i}
          style={{
            height: Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) * 10 + 10,
            borderBottom: "solid 1px gray",
            background: "white",
          }}
        >
          {i}
        </div>
      ))}
    </VList>
  );
};

// or render prop
export const App = () => {
  const items = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map(
    () => Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) * 10 + 10,
  );
  return (
    <VList data={items} style={{ height: 800 }}>
      {(d, i) => (
        <div
          key={i}
          style={{
            height: d,
            borderBottom: "solid 1px gray",
            background: "white",
          }}
        >
          {i}
        </div>
      )}
    </VList>
  );
};

Horizontal scroll

import { VList } from "virtua";

export const App = () => {
  return (
    <VList style={{ height: 400 }} horizontal>
      {Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => (
        <div
          key={i}
          style={{
            width: Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) * 10 + 10,
            borderRight: "solid 1px gray",
            background: "white",
          }}
        >
          {i}
        </div>
      ))}
    </VList>
  );
};

Customization

VList is a recommended solution which works like a drop-in replacement of simple list built with scrollable div (or removed virtual-scroller element). For more complicated styling or markup, use Virtualizer.

import { Virtualizer } from "virtua";

export const App = () => {
  return (
    <div style={{ overflowY: "auto", overflowAnchor: "none", height: 800 }}>
      <div style={{ height: 40 }}>header</div>
      <Virtualizer startMargin={40}>
        {Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => (
          <div
            key={i}
            style={{
              height: Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) * 10 + 10,
              borderBottom: "solid 1px gray",
              background: "white",
            }}
          >
            {i}
          </div>
        ))}
      </Virtualizer>
    </div>
  );
};

Window scroll

import { WindowVirtualizer } from "virtua";

export const App = () => {
  return (
    <div style={{ padding: 200 }}>
      <WindowVirtualizer>
        {Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => (
          <div
            key={i}
            style={{
              height: Math.floor(Math.random() * 10) * 10 + 10,
              borderBottom: "solid 1px gray",
              background: "white",
            }}
          >
            {i}
          </div>
        ))}
      </WindowVirtualizer>
    </div>
  );
};

Tabular data

import { VGrid } from "virtua";

const columns = [
  { key: "id", width: 80 },
  { key: "name", width: 200 },
  { key: "email", width: 300 },
  { key: "age", width: 80 },
  { key: "joined", width: 160 },
  { key: "bio", width: 480 },
] as const;

const rows = Array.from({ length: 10000 }).map((_, i) => ({
  id: i,
  name: `User ${i}`,
  email: `user${i}@example.com`,
  age: 20 + (i % 50),
  joined: new Date(2020, 0, 1 + i).toDateString(),
  bio: `Hello, I'm user ${i}.`,
}));

export const App = () => {
  return (
    <VGrid
      style={{ height: 800, border: "solid 1px gray", background: "white" }}
      rows={rows}
      rowHeight={40}
      cols={columns}
      colWidth="width"
    >
      {(row, col) => (
        <div
          style={{
            borderRight: "solid 1px gray",
            borderBottom: "solid 1px gray",
          }}
        >
          {row[col.key]}
        </div>
      )}
    </VGrid>
  );
};

Vue

vue >= 3.2 is required.

<script setup>
import { VList } from "virtua/vue";

const sizes = [20, 40, 180, 77];
const data = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => sizes[i % 4]);
</script>

<template>
  <VList :data="data" :style="{ height: '800px' }" #default="{ item, index }">
    <div
      :key="index"
      :style="{
        height: item + 'px',
        borderBottom: 'solid 1px #ccc',
        background: 'white',
      }"
    >
      {{ index }}
    </div>
  </VList>
</template>

Solid

solid-js >= 1.0 is required.

import { VList } from "virtua/solid";

export const App = () => {
  const sizes = [20, 40, 180, 77];
  const data = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => sizes[i % 4]);

  return (
    <VList data={data} style={{ height: "800px" }}>
      {(d, i) => (
        <div
          style={{
            height: d + "px",
            "border-bottom": "solid 1px #ccc",
            background: "white",
          }}
        >
          {i()}
        </div>
      )}
    </VList>
  );
};

Svelte

svelte >= 5.0 is required.

<script lang="ts">
  import { VList } from "virtua/svelte";

  const sizes = [20, 40, 180, 77];

  const data = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => sizes[i % 4]);
</script>

<VList {data} style="height: 800px;" getKey={(_, i) => i}>
  {#snippet children(item, index)}
    <div
      style="
        height: {item}px;
        border-bottom: solid 1px #ccc;
        background: white;
      "
    >
      {index}
    </div>
  {/snippet}
</VList>

Angular

@angular/core >= 20 is required. The components are zoneless-ready and work with both zone.js and provideZonelessChangeDetection.

import { Component } from "@angular/core";
import { VList } from "virtua/angular";

const sizes = [20, 40, 180, 77];

@Component({
  selector: "app-root",
  imports: [VList],
  template: `
    <virtua-vlist [data]="data" [getKey]="getKey" style="height: 800px;">
      <ng-template let-item let-index="index">
        <div
          [style.height.px]="item"
          style="background: white; border-bottom: solid 1px #ccc;"
        >
          {{ index }}
        </div>
      </ng-template>
    </virtua-vlist>
  `,
})
export class App {
  protected readonly data = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map(
    (_, i) => sizes[i % 4]!,
  );
  protected readonly getKey = (_: number, i: number) => i;
}

Other bindings

vanilla-virtua: virtua for vanilla js

Documentation

FAQs

Is there any way to improve performance further?

In complex usage, especially if you re-render frequently the parent of virtual scroller or the children are tons of items, children element creation can be a performance bottle neck. That's because creating React elements is fast enough but not free and new React element instances break some of memoization inside virtual scroller.

One solution is memoization with useMemo. You can use it to reduce computation and keep the elements' instance the same. And if you want to pass state from parent to the items, using context instead of props may be better because it doesn't break the memoization.

const elements = useMemo(
  () => tooLongArray.map((d) => <Component key={d.id} {...d} />),
  [tooLongArray],
);
const [position, setPosition] = useState(0);
return (
  <div>
    <div>position: {position}</div>
    <VList onScroll={(offset) => setPosition(offset)}>{elements}</VList>
  </div>
);

The other solution is using render prop as children to create elements lazily. It will effectively reduce cost on start up when you render many items (>1000). An important point is that newly created elements from render prop will disable optimization possible with cached element instances. We recommend using memoized function or component to reduce calculation and re-rendering during scrolling.

// memoize render function with some memoization library
import memoize from "memoize";

const renderItem = memoize((item: Data) => {
  return <Component key={item.id} data={item} />;
});

<VList data={items}>{renderItem}</VList>;

// memoize component with React.memo
import { memo } from "react";

const Component = memo(HeavyItem);

<VList data={items}>
  {(item) => {
    return <Component key={item.id} data={item} />;
  }}
</VList>;

Decreasing bufferSize prop may also improve perf in case that components are large and heavy.

Virtua try to suppress glitch caused by resize as much as possible, but it will also require additional work. If your item contains something resized often, such as lazy loaded image, we recommend to set height or min-height to it if possible.

What is `ResizeObserver loop completed with undelivered notifications.` error?

It may be dispatched by ResizeObserver in this lib as described in spec, and this is a common problem with ResizeObserver. If it bothers you, you can safely ignore it.

Especially for webpack-dev-server, you can filter out the specific error with devServer.client.overlay.runtimeErrors option.

Why my items are squashed(or rendered inconsistently) on resize/add/remove?

Maybe you forgot to pass key prop to each items, or the keys are not unique. Item sizes are stored per key.

And do not use index of items as key, especially when you want to toggle shift prop to true. Prepending will increment every indexes of items and that will cause unexpected behavior.

Why `VListHandle.viewportSize` is 0 on mount?

viewportSize will be calculated by ResizeObserver so it's 0 until the first measurement.

What is `Cannot find module 'virtua/vue(solid|svelte|angular)' or its corresponding type declarations` error?

This package uses exports of package.json for entry point of Vue/Solid/Svelte/Angular adapter. This field can't be resolved in TypeScript with moduleResolution: node. Try moduleResolution: bundler or moduleResolution: nodenext instead.

Comparison

Features

	virtua	react-virtuoso	react-window	@tanstack/react-virtual	react-virtualized
Bundle size
Vertical scroll	✅	✅	✅	🟠 (needs customization)	✅
Horizontal scroll	✅	✅	✅	🟠 (needs customization)	✅
Horizontal scroll in RTL direction	✅	✅	✅	🟠 (isRtl)	❌
Grid (Virtualization for two dimensions)	✅ (VGrid)	❌	✅ (Grid)	🟠 (needs customization)	✅ (Grid)
Tabular data (Columns with headers)	✅ (VGrid)	✅ (TableVirtuoso)	✅ (Supported)	🟠 (needs customization)	✅ (Table)
HTML table element	🟠 (needs customization)	✅ (TableVirtuoso)	❌	🟠 (needs customization)	❌
Masonry	❌	✅ (VirtuosoMasonry)	❌	🟠 (needs customization)	✅ (Masonry)
Window scroller	✅ (WindowVirtualizer)	✅	❌	✅ (useWindowVirtualizer)	✅ (WindowScroller)
Dynamic list size	✅	✅	✅	✅	🟠 (needs AutoSizer)
Dynamic item size	✅	✅	✅ (useDynamicRowHeight)	✅ (measureElement)	🟠 (needs CellMeasurer and has wrong destination when scrolling to item imperatively)
Reverse scroll	✅	✅	❌	✅ (anchorTo)	❌
Reverse scroll in iOS Safari	🟠 (user must release scroll)	🟠 (has glitch with unknown sized items)	❌	🟠	❌
Infinite scroll	✅	✅	🟠 (needs react-window-infinite-loader)	✅	🟠 (needs InfiniteLoader)
Reverse (bi-directional) infinite scroll	✅	✅	❌	✅ (anchorTo)	❌
Scroll restoration	✅	✅ (getState)	❌	✅ (takeSnapshot)	❌
Smooth scroll	✅	✅	🟠 (not with useDynamicRowHeight)	✅	❌
SSR support	✅ (ssrCount)	✅ (initialItemCount)	✅ (defaultHeight)	✅ (initialRect)	✅
Render React Server Components (RSC) as children	✅	❌	❌	🟠 (needs customization)	❌
Display exceeding browser's max element size limit	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

✅ - Built-in supported
🟠 - Supported but partial, limited or requires some user custom code
❌ - Not officially supported

Grid features

	virtua (VGrid)	AG Grid Community	MUI X Data Grid	react-data-grid	@virtuoso.dev/data-table	react-window (Grid)	@tanstack/react-virtual
Bundle size
Row / column virtualization	✅	✅	🟠 (rows are limited to 100 per page, 💰 Pro for more)	✅	✅	✅	🟠 (needs customization)
Dynamic row height / column width	✅ (auto)	✅ (autoHeight / autoSizeStrategy)	🟠 (only row height, column width needs autosizing on demand)	🟠 (only column width, measured once)	🟠 (only row height, column width is measured from header cells)	❌	🟠 (measureElement)
Pinned rows / columns	✅	✅	💰 (Pro, rows / columns)	✅	🟠 (only columns)	❌	🟠 (rangeExtractor)
Row / column spanning	✅	✅	🟠 (row spanning needs fixed row height)	🟠 (only columns)	🟠 (only column group headers)	❌	❌
Sticky group rows	✅ (sectionRows)	💰 (Enterprise)	❌	❌	✅ (Grouped rows)	❌	🟠 (rangeExtractor)
SSR support	❌	❌	❌	🟠 (limited to the first few rows)	❌	✅ (defaultHeight, defaultWidth)	✅ (initialRect)
Window scroller	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅ (useWindowScroll)	❌	✅ (useWindowVirtualizer)
Display exceeding browser's max element size limit	❌	✅ (Stretching)	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Use with TanStack Table	✅ (example)	❌	❌	❌	❌	🟠 (needs customization)	✅ (guide)

✅ - Built-in supported
🟠 - Supported but partial, limited or requires some user custom code
❌ - Not officially supported
💰 - Supported only in paid plans

Benchmark

WIP

Contribute

All contributions are welcome. If you find a problem, feel free to create an issue or a PR. If you have a question, ask in discussions.

Making a Pull Request

Fork this repo.
Run npm install.
Commit your fix.
Make a PR and confirm all the CI checks passed.