Kinda offtopic, I hope it's still allowed.
I see a lot of applications using datatables, I would like to use it too because you get a lot of nice controls out of the box and also without having to request the server with every interaction. However, in order to get this working you need to retrieve the full set of records at once, right? Isn't this horrible performance wise? Am I missing something?
Not right, there are some plugins that do pagination, search and other features in back-end not front-end.
That's an example: https://yajrabox.com/docs/laravel-datatables/master/installation
PS: didn't try that package myself, and there're other packages that does the same work.
@MohamedTammam well I'm talking about those that do it client side, that's mainly the point of using a plugin like datatables.
@KLM113 You can still use Datatable with back-end pagination, searching, etc.
datatables allows you to do it either way depending on your requirements. If its a few hundred records, send it all at once and page search and filter in the client, if it will be more than that you can split it so that records are loaded on demand from the backend
Isn't this horrible performance wise?
@klm113 Yes.
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