Imagine you are building some kind of application with React that requires you to show a long list of items. Say, 1,000 items. What are your options? Just render the whole thing at once?

Today, my goal is to show you the problem so that you understand what we are solving and then present a solution.

Let’s get started!

Create the Project

At this point, all of you should know how to create a new React application from the command line using create-react-app. Just go to your terminal and run the following command to get going with a brand new React application:

npx create-react-app long-list-app

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