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Modern backends and frontends can surely handle way more than 20 entries in a dropdown without sweating. But in case you do have a LOT of entries that modern h
by rmbyrro 5y ago
Modern backends and frontends can surely handle way more than 20 entries in a dropdown without sweating.
But in case you do have a LOT of entries that modern hardware cannot handle efficiently, just switch to a selector based on a search box (perhaps with autocomplete), instead of a dropdown.
Since it's an easy modification in the UI, perhaps these startups used a dropdown for simplicity, knowing they can change to a selector search box quickly, if it becomes an issue.
- TacoSteemers 5y ago> Modern backends and frontends can surely handle way more than 20 entries in a dropdown without sweating. I agree. I meant that I as a user will not find it usable enough if I often have to search the correct value in lists of 20 or more. The discussion of the load on the frontend and backend was about amounts large enough to create problems if the developer wrote naive code, but we did not get in to a specific amount.