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 React components for efficiently rendering large lists and tabular data.
 Check out [the demo](https://bvaughn.github.io/react-virtualized/) for some examples.
-Join the official Slack chat at [react-virtualized.now.sh](https://react-virtualized.now.sh/).
 
 ### Sponsors
 The following wonderful companies have sponsored react-virtualized: