When trying to implement a widget on an entity reference field that returns ~5k entities, site freezes when I try to enter a search query.
- Install and enable the plugin the usual way
- Enable search on the widget
- Have a field of entity reference type that has a lot of entities as options
- Try to search
- Write an API controller callback function instead of current JS filter method in dropdowns class.
- Because the first proposition affects the performance on the server-side, figure out a solution to filter results efficiently with JS
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It affects performance. It is often combined with the Needs profiling tag.
I'll be honest, there was no intent of using this module for large lists of nodes when built. If someone wants to work on a more performant filtering option (perhaps as a sub-module) I'm open to it, but for large amounts of entries an entity reference autocomplete is probably the better option.