Small (1.5 KB) Javascript library that lets you render tables, lists, etc. with hundreds of thousands of items.

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How it works is that you move your data set from the DOM into JS. Clusterize than makes sure only the rows in the viewport (and adjacent batches) are rendered.

I believe that AngularUI's data grid component uses a similar technique to reduce the number of bindings in large tables, but I can't seem to find documentation on that.