Immediate feedback when accessing slow page
I have a little backend that serve multiple static sites mounted from an external storage. I can't modify the content of these sites.
For instance:
mydomain.com/sites/site1/path/file.ext -> /mnt/site1/path/file.ext
The storage is slow, but its content gets cached when accessed (which speeds things up a lot).
I would like this to be responsive, that is when a user clicks, I give immediate feedback that the input is received and something is happening.
I though of serving an intermediate page with spinner animation, or just some text saying “Loading”, while I make an ajax call and replace the whole content of the page with the ajax response. But I am no frontend developer and I wonder what would be an idomatic way of achieving this?
javascript user-interface
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
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I have a little backend that serve multiple static sites mounted from an external storage. I can't modify the content of these sites.
For instance:
mydomain.com/sites/site1/path/file.ext -> /mnt/site1/path/file.ext
The storage is slow, but its content gets cached when accessed (which speeds things up a lot).
I would like this to be responsive, that is when a user clicks, I give immediate feedback that the input is received and something is happening.
I though of serving an intermediate page with spinner animation, or just some text saying “Loading”, while I make an ajax call and replace the whole content of the page with the ajax response. But I am no frontend developer and I wonder what would be an idomatic way of achieving this?
javascript user-interface
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
Send the user to a placeholder page containing a loading image and nothing else, have this page then re-direct to the actual page (that loads the slow content) on load. That way the user sees something straight away. Or load the content async using AJAX
– Liam
Nov 21 '18 at 14:16
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I have a little backend that serve multiple static sites mounted from an external storage. I can't modify the content of these sites.
For instance:
mydomain.com/sites/site1/path/file.ext -> /mnt/site1/path/file.ext
The storage is slow, but its content gets cached when accessed (which speeds things up a lot).
I would like this to be responsive, that is when a user clicks, I give immediate feedback that the input is received and something is happening.
I though of serving an intermediate page with spinner animation, or just some text saying “Loading”, while I make an ajax call and replace the whole content of the page with the ajax response. But I am no frontend developer and I wonder what would be an idomatic way of achieving this?
javascript user-interface
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
I have a little backend that serve multiple static sites mounted from an external storage. I can't modify the content of these sites.
For instance:
mydomain.com/sites/site1/path/file.ext -> /mnt/site1/path/file.ext
The storage is slow, but its content gets cached when accessed (which speeds things up a lot).
I would like this to be responsive, that is when a user clicks, I give immediate feedback that the input is received and something is happening.
I though of serving an intermediate page with spinner animation, or just some text saying “Loading”, while I make an ajax call and replace the whole content of the page with the ajax response. But I am no frontend developer and I wonder what would be an idomatic way of achieving this?
javascript user-interface
javascript user-interface
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
asked Nov 21 '18 at 14:07
abstrus
1185
1185
Send the user to a placeholder page containing a loading image and nothing else, have this page then re-direct to the actual page (that loads the slow content) on load. That way the user sees something straight away. Or load the content async using AJAX
– Liam
Nov 21 '18 at 14:16
add a comment |
Send the user to a placeholder page containing a loading image and nothing else, have this page then re-direct to the actual page (that loads the slow content) on load. That way the user sees something straight away. Or load the content async using AJAX
– Liam
Nov 21 '18 at 14:16
Send the user to a placeholder page containing a loading image and nothing else, have this page then re-direct to the actual page (that loads the slow content) on load. That way the user sees something straight away. Or load the content async using AJAX
– Liam
Nov 21 '18 at 14:16
Send the user to a placeholder page containing a loading image and nothing else, have this page then re-direct to the actual page (that loads the slow content) on load. That way the user sees something straight away. Or load the content async using AJAX
– Liam
Nov 21 '18 at 14:16
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Send the user to a placeholder page containing a loading image and nothing else, have this page then re-direct to the actual page (that loads the slow content) on load. That way the user sees something straight away. Or load the content async using AJAX
– Liam
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