Hey everyone!
I just released a new asset that I think you’ll find pretty useful - LazyListBox for Godot 4.4+.
This plugin only renders what’s actually visible and recycles the UI elements as you scroll. You can throw like 1,000,000 items at it, but it’ll only create like 10-20 actual controls (Depends on your screen resolution). Creating the illusion that you’re scrolling through thousands of actual items without significant performance drops.
Key Features:
- Device support - Touch screen and mouse
- Lazy loading - Only visible items get rendered
- Recycling - Reuses UI elements instead of creating/destroying them
- Auto-calculation of how many items fit on screen (or set it manually)
- Proper focus management with keyboard navigation
The whole setup takes maybe 5 minutes if you follow the README.
prototype projects I’ve used it for:
- Inventory systems with lots of items
- Display lines of large textfiles like 1 million Lines and more
- Pretty much any list that gets out of hand
The current version is avaible on github, leave a 
if this is something for you
https://github.com/spinalcord/lazy-list-box-godot/archive/24385d6bdeccc84249f85f42dcae433560b7f1ae.zip
Here is the readme:
Have fun with it.