Make the games list/filters using JavaScript ony

[Adrian2k7]

Hi,

Currently the games overview page and filters make a request to the server, whenever a user starts filtering. This is propably unnecessary.

From what I see, you could reduce load, following an approach like this:

* Load the users games information (favorites,...) into local storage/ cookie (refresh from time to time, on change)
* Let the overview page and filters work in JavaScript only --> so no need for additional filter requests...

There are many JS libs for doing so, Isotope is a nice one: https://isotope.metafizzy.co

[Adrian2k7]

Wasn't aware, there is a bug tracker. Created a ticket there as well: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=15900
Hope this is okay.

[Een]

Hey! Thanks. That's a good idea in general terms, but these requests actually don't contribute so much to the load. Our next bottlenecks to handle are elsewhere

As you seem technically minded, if interested you can take a look at this thread where we post updates on our efforts to expand the service capacity: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14725

[Adrian2k7]

Hello Een,

Yeah, that's more like a drop in the bucket... maybe depends what users do... but propably game logic is the most invasive task.

Generally you may improve a little bit, by doing more REST requests only returning JSON, and doing rendering at the frontend.
This may "remove" the templating from the backend and reduce bandwidth usage a bit... but also depends on the backend, I don't know.

I will respond in the main thread too...