# Glimmer Components: what's the limit here?

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**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/glimmer-components-whats-the-limit-here/353618 "2025-02-21T14:55:58Z")\
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That would work,

Although you should be aware that this would fetch the product data from the external website _on every page view_ and that might not something you - or they - want. So it would be better to make a plugin, have it request the data from your own controller, and have that controller request the data from the remote site. That would allow for caching the result and it would also allow you to use any non-public API’s.

If there is a link to a product and the data is stale you could also create a plugin that “oneboxes” the product and adds the extra data there.

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