# Infinite scroll - is discourse recycling dom elements?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scroll-is-discourse-recycling-dom-elements/211069
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scroll-is-discourse-recycling-dom-elements/211069 "2021-12-04T01:09:04Z")
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### Author: ![spirobel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spirobel/32/170908_2.png) [@spirobel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spirobel)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/infinite-scroll-is-discourse-recycling-dom-elements/211069/5 "2021-12-07T08:29:19Z")

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@sam Is there an article you can link me to that compares this technique with recycling components? I would be interested in reading more about it. How did you go about making this decision? I imagine [A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-tour-of-how-the-widget-virtual-dom-code-in-discourse-works/40347) is also related to this.

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