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by bmeski 1749 days ago
This is actually not that hard to do and has been done many many many times before.

URLs can be unique ids for scrolling to.

Simple Ajax function to attach cards on scroll.

Poll or get pinged by SSE to pull updates, swap by url as Id

Loads fast if you simply render html and lazy load the images. Css is almost instant.

We can do better with so much less. Unfortunately we now have front end engineers everywhere doing web development.