I also implemented something like this very recently [1] and I would recommend building in caching from the start as I was consistently getting throttled by the

I also implemented something like this very recently [1] and I would recommend building in caching from the start as I was consistently getting throttled by the Google API even in development (just live reloading the page as I styled it). Secondly, while the load page and then load the data in as JS approach definitely works, I found that just pushing the data in as HTML on the server side was easier to cache and faster to load. 1 - https://gist.github.com/mbuckbee/0ad3bd150e705c769c50 https://gist.github.com/mbuckbee/0ad3bd150e705c769c50 This was sufficient to handle thousands of requests per hour with a page load time of less than 250ms