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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Developing for Slow and Spotty Connections

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday.

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,

0:07.0

CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,

0:10.0

breakdancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott Toro Loco Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax in this Monday, hasty treat.

0:29.0

We're going to be talking all about developing for slow or spotty internet connections because we all know

0:37.2

that the web isn't always the high-powered gigabit speeds that sometimes we get to develop on in our fancy offices and a lot of times people are using with slower worse internet connection.

0:48.3

So we're going to be talking about some of this stuff, how we can combat this, and just some general ideas.

0:53.0

My name is Scott Tolinsky.

0:54.2

I'm a bullstack developer from Denver, Colorado,

0:57.2

and with me as always is Wes, Boss.

1:01.2

Hey everybody, hey everybody, yeah, wait for that hey Yeah, yeah. Wait for that Hey Everybody Wes. Hey everybody I'm excited to talk about this because ever since that pandemic hit we went and bugged out our cottage and we have several sources of internet up here and they were all awful.

1:16.3

Like they're okay. I'm happy to have it but there's a lot I've learned about developing for slow connections just from using the internet on a slow connection for the last two months.

1:26.2

There's a lot that has made me think about this.

1:28.4

So we're going to go through some things that you as a developer should think about,

1:32.3

because especially like I see this as

1:34.1

well as when people are developing locally everything loads instantly when it's local

1:38.0

so you don't even think about this. Exactly right so many of these things we don't think about.

1:42.1

Now this episode is sponsored by a company that's going to help you fix the things that you didn't think about when you didn't think about them and they broke. And I'm talking about Log Rocket at log rocket.com forward slash syntax.

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