Alipay Experience Technology

Feb 10, 2023 · Frontend Development

How to Perfect a Waterfall Layout: A Frontend Engineer’s Algorithmic Journey

This article walks through the challenges of creating a tidy waterfall‑style image gallery, explains why the classic greedy algorithm fails with long images, and details a custom NP‑hard‑aware solution that uses average‑based grouping, sorting, and order‑preserving tweaks to achieve a more balanced visual layout.