Yes, you can be lazy and get more than 5000 SharePoint Items

To reply to this blog post I wanted to share the same thing but with SharepointPlus.

To use the paging option and get all the content from a large Sharepoint list you can simply do the below code:

$SP().list("My List").get({
  fields:"ID,Title",
  rowlimit:5000,
  paging:true,
  progress:function progress(nbItemsLoaded) {
    // for each new page this function will be called
    console.log("It's still loading... already "+nbItemsLoaded+" items have been loaded!");
  }
}, function(data) {
  console.log(data.length); // -> 23587
  for (var i=0, len=data.length; i<len; i++) {
    console.log(data[i].getAttribute("ID"))
  }
})

If you only want to get the first 15,000 items, you can use the option page:3. See the documentation to know more.