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Hasty Treat - Developing for Slow and Spotty Connections
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how to develop for slow internet connections.
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Show Notes 02:26 - Types of Slow connections
Slow upload
Slow download This could be that your kids are watching a show and your partner is on a zoom call
High latency
Intermittent
07:47 - Loading UI
Show loading UI for everything, but after X seconds
Page transitions on SPAs
Form switches - enter country, get list of provinces/shipping/whatever
11:58 - Account for XHR failures
Sometimes I’m in a loading state forever
State machines will account for this
13:26 - “Still working” timeouts
Some sort of timeout so the user can get feedback
Links Sentry
Sapper
Backblaze
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