In this episode, we tackle the problem of having too many participant avatars showing up in our UI. Imagine if you had 100 users in a discussion—showing all of their avatars at once would totally break the layout!
We start by beefing up our mock data with a bunch of new users and replies, just to see what it looks like with a crowded participant list. Sure enough, it's a mess. So, to fix this, we update our component with a computed property that controls how many avatars to show. We use JavaScript's slice
instead of splice
(to avoid mutating the original array) and decide to only display a set number of participants, with a handy "+X more" message if there are extras.
There's a bit of trial and error as we tweak the design and the logic, but by the end, our UI is tidy and only ever shows a fixed number of user avatars, plus a note for any hidden participants. Now, even if 100 people join, things stay neat and readable. No more overflowing avatars!