Asynchronous node loading

Posted by alex_b on December 16, 2006 at 5:44pm

In the last couple of weeks we were working with Avi Mehta on a module that allows for asynchronously loading nodes. The module provides an interface to views as well as themable functions for the ones among us who love to tinker. An asynchronous pager like on http://www.searchmash.com/search/drupal is also in the works. There is a concept for asynchronously loading blocks.

The module is already deployed on a production intranet site. Its main advantage is that it allows us to load huge lists of nodes (50 or more) avoiding slow full node loads. If users want to look at the entire node with teaser, tags and all, they just expand the node and load it on the spot without leaving the page. This makes the site a lot flatter and thus more navigable.

I am posting this here in order to raise awareness of our development and to avoid parallel work. If you are interested, please check out our sandbox:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/developmentse...

Cheers, Alex

Comments

4.7?

Posted by jasonwhat on December 16, 2006 at 11:36pm

Is this working on 4.7 or 5.0? I'd love to see an example of this if there is one publicly available.

Sorry, Drupal

Posted by alex_b on December 17, 2006 at 4:08am

Sorry, Drupal 4.7.

Demo:
http://www.jodhpuriguy.com/sandbox/drupal/?q=asyncPage (only async node loading works).

You can install asyncapi really easily, though. Drop it in, turn it on and create a view with views.module.

http://www.twitter.com/lxbarth

Drupal 5.0 version

Posted by dwees on February 10, 2007 at 9:53pm

I'd love to see this ported to Drupal 5.0. I think a lot of the basic sliding effects could be handled with jQuery, as could the Ajax.

Dave

JS Tools has similar

Posted by jasonwhat on February 10, 2007 at 10:24pm

While not exactly the same, the JS tools module (http://drupal.org/project/jstools) has asynch loading, but the links have to be in a block. It works for 5.0. However, I like the idea of doing it through views better, and it would be nice to marry these two methods to some extent.

gorgeous.

Posted by Veggieryan on February 10, 2007 at 10:51pm

great work. just great.

It would be most beneficial to see this and the dynamic load module from jstools become two helper modules of a more general jquery based active loading API module.
or at least get dynamic load working stable and gracefully degrading in 5.0... and loose that long bar animation for the sexy circular style loader..

whoa.