Understanding the Impact of Slow Internet Connections on Development

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

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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

• Sentry
• Sapper
• Backblaze

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