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Aaron Reese

Not mentioned in 115 comments is the cost of reshaping API data in js. Pulling down more records than are practically required, or more fields, or having to nest related items (e.g. customer.order.item) using .map.filter is computational cost better suited to the server or data store layers. GraphQLcan help but it is often worth re-specifying the API response or implementing partial datasets and a fetch-ahead policy to prevent UX delays on progressing down the list.
An example of this is Jobserve.co.uk where they prefetch the next 20 jobs in the list; if you scroll quickly you can catch it out.