New (Beta) Table Block performance

Bug Reports
1

I experience performance issues with the new table block in the Studio. Changing a setting in the right hand pane can take up to 10s, rendering is unusable.

2

Hey @NikW, could you please close all the Softr tabs, clear your browser cache, refresh the browser and check again?

3

Hi Marine,
Sorry for the wait! Iā€™ve cleared the browser cache and restarted my Mac. Still have terrible performance. It slows right down on the new Table block. All other blocks are still performing fine.

Anything else I can try?

Nik

4

Hi @NikW

Could you add support@softr.io as a collaborator and share the studio url for your app?

Thanks,
Dhruv

5

Hi Dhruv. Iā€™ve added Softr support, URL is here: Softr Studio

The problem table is the Items table.

Thanks

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6

Hi @NikW ,
thanks for sharing your app URL.
Iā€™m not seeing a big slowdown. Perhaps Iā€™m not changing the settings which cause a slowdown.
Could you perhaps share a screen recording of the slowdown?

7

Hi Dhruv,

Video here: Softr Studio - 24 March 2025 | Loom

It literally stops responding after I click on the resize option.

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8

Thanks for the recording.

Iā€™ll profile this and push some fixes to improve the performance in the next few days.

In the meantime, you could try reducing the ā€œItems per pageā€ setting in while editing, just as a temporary workaround.

9

Thanksā€¦ Iā€™ve reduced items per page. Still slow / unusable performance (Iā€™m on Safari on a Mac, in case thatā€™s useful).

I noticed the ā€˜oldā€™ table has disappeared from the list. Is this option no longer available?

Thanks

10

(Iā€™m on Safari on a Mac, in case thatā€™s useful).

Yes, that is very useful.

I was benchmarking and profiling on Chrome and it seems like it is a lot faster there. On my stress test app with a table with 100 items and 10 columns, I can update the field settings in a few hundred milliseconds. Not instantaneous, but definitely doesnā€™t freeze up.
But on safari, itā€™s completely unusable, as you said.

Iā€™lll try to optimize it a bit more specifically for safari.
Would it be possible for you to use Chrome in the meantime?

Thanks

11

@NikW weā€™ve made some performance improvements to the table block. It should no longer freeze your browser when adjusting column widths :slight_smile:

12

This is now much better. Thank you!