would you use react-native-big-list instead of flatlist? about react-native-chat-ui HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks, we will consider adding that!

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As I understood itemHeight is required for this package, assuming all performance improvements are basically from the fact that items are of the same height. We have very dynamic items (messages, absolutely random height), and calculating text heights to supply to this package IMO will negate all performance improvements. Feel free to correct me if I missed something.

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@demchenkoalex Shopify just released FlashList - a super fast RLV implementation. Upgrading is actually super straight forward. Is this library still maintained and would you make it possible to define a scrollable?

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Hey @hirbod I will definitely use that, atm I am actively developing Flutter counterpart of the lib, but this will be revived at some point as well with tons of features we have on Flutter already + this. Can't give an ETA now, but I am looking forward to bringing back React Native up to speed.

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react-native-big-list is indeed not the right package for this. But RecyclerList is a bit painful to setup but is way faster than FlatList. But I would keep my eyes open for the upcoming "react-native-vision-list", which might be a game changer soon :)

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I always thought game changer will be Fabric and Turbo Modules :D 🤞 this year. And no dependencies needed :)

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React Native Vision List will be some JSI magic ;). I am also waiting patiently for fabric and turbo modules to get rid of these painful lists in RN

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Hi @demchenkoalex, just FYI, I forked your project yesterday and just swapped everything related from FlatList to FlashList, and the results are incredibly great, specially on Android. I did it not do it in a usable manner for this library, just in a quick one for my project, so I can't provide a PR but I just wanted to let you know that it is really fast and works great! In order for this to be usable in the future, I would recommend to export a prop to provide a scrollable yourself or for a prop to switch the implementation.

I would also forward the ref to have access to the list and changed some stuff related to LayoutAnimation, all in all it was done in like 25 minutes.

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