How much data should web service return?

[Nhut Thai Le]

Hello,

Does anyone has a good rule of thumb how much data (in term of total size and number of elements) should the web service return in order to be processed efficiently in typescript? The application i am building mainly used from a mobile device so memory and computing power are limited.

Thai

[Sander Elias]

Hi Nhut,

There is only one answer. It depends.

On the size of the data, On what kind of clients, on expected network speed, and on tens of other things.

Usually, I look at the complete size of the returned data. if that's <100Kb I just pull everything all the time. However, this is not a hard rule. 

there are times that I pull down 1.5Gb of data in 1 go. Also, there are times I limit it to <1.5Kb (1 packet on the network)
Most of it related to the change rate of the data, and how often I need it in my app. 

Regards

Sander