Overview

As tiling is a pure function that operates on a reactive stream, its configuration can be changed on the fly. This lends it well to the following situations:

• Offline-first apps: Tiling delivers targeted updates to only queries that have changed. This works well for apps which write to the database as the source of truth, and need the UI to update immediately. For example a viral tweet whose like count updates several times a second.

• Adaptive pagination: The amount of items paginated through can be adjusted dynamically to account for app window resizing by turning on more pages and increasing the limit of data sent to the UI from the paginated data available. An example is in the Me app.

• Dynamic sort order: The sort order of paginated items can be changed cheaply on a whim by changing the order as this only operates on the data output from the tiler, and not the entire paginated data set. An example is in the sample in this repository.