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. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. 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 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets.

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how to develop for slow internet connections.

LogRocket - Sponsor

LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax.

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 Tweet us your tasty treats!

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