Show HN: Make your app handle going offline
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Show HN: Make your app handle going offline
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#2Why is there a snake game wasting space in the source code?
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#3Why is there a snake game wasting space in the source code?
Just my own amusement, I'll make you a build without it.
Edit: It's no longer included in the minified build
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#4This looks neat, has anyone tried it with AngularJS?
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#5Kudos to hubspot: they're pushing out some nice js pieces from their app
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#6You guys have put out some great pieces of JS in the last year and the quality is getting better. I'm a big fan of how this is not jQuery dependent and the code is simple. I've been watching the HubSpot repos since globalMessenger and the code and presentation are far above par.
Thanks for releasing your internal libs.
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#7> It captures AJAX requests which were made while the connection was down, and remakes them when it's back up, so your app reacts perfectly.
Is this something I want as a user? If an app seems to be offline, I tend to do various things just to check or re-establish connectivity. Say, hit the Send button a few times, order columns, filter, search, whatever. Stuff, I wouldn't do if I had connection.
Once the app reconnects, all this nonsense would be executed. I'm not so sure if I'd really want this as a user.
This leads to the question: How fast does it notice that the app went offline? Do I get the chance to do stupid things as a user or will I be shown the "you're offline" message soon enough?
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#8> It captures AJAX requests which were made while the connection was down, and remakes them when it's back up, so your app reacts perfectly. Is this something I want as a user? If an app seems to be offline, I tend to do various things just to check or re-establish connectivity. Say, hit the Send button a few times, order columns, filter, search, whatever. Stuff, I wouldn't do if I had connection. Once the app reconn…
If either the native offline event fires (where supported) or a single XHR request has a timeout or error, we fire our offline event, which triggers the UI to update.
So in your example, you'd know almost immediately after you clicked the "Send" button.
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#9> It captures AJAX requests which were made while the connection was down, and remakes them when it's back up, so your app reacts perfectly. Is this something I want as a user? If an app seems to be offline, I tend to do various things just to check or re-establish connectivity. Say, hit the Send button a few times, order columns, filter, search, whatever. Stuff, I wouldn't do if I had connection. Once the app reconn…
Usability depends on app.
Take Trello for example, super useful when working with teams and on boards with a lot of activity.
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#10I think this is a neat proof of concept. However, you have to be extremely careful to not get out of sync hell.
I see an enormous load of extra complexities for what seems to be very little advantage.
On the other hand, if you list all the queued non-GET AJAX call for the user to resend manually, it could be good.
I'm ambivalent :(