Elixir is fast, but not everyone on the planet is having a fast internet connection. Optimistic UI (previously called Latency Compensation ) is a concept first introduced by Meteor framework. Let me explain what Optimistic UI / Latency Compensation is: For example you’re sending a message through a…

-> rest of the process of sending message to the server, saving to database, OK response from server everything was done in the background. or vanilla JavaScript Sounds like something that can be accomplished with Web Workers . Can I use … Web Workers

thank you for the response!, I’ll read about web-workers to find out if it will work for me or not. I don’t wanna use React or Vue for otherwise very simple project.

True Lies Of Optimistic User Interfaces (2016-11-15) In most cases Web Worker is likely overkill for this as the server interaction is asynchronous to begin with. You are simply updating the page before the request to the server is made. So working with Promises or async functions should be enough. …

Sending a single message isn’t very hard to do in Optimistic UI way, but sending multiple messages, and dealing with their order might be harder. A message sent later and being smaller may reach earlier (especially when user’s internet connection is too slow). One solution coming to my mind is, upd…

Reef is an anti-framework. Why I wrote my own vanilla JS alternative to Vue and React How I built my own vanilla JS alternative to Vue and React I think he is encouraging people to peek under the hood rather than just simply use it. Daily Developer Tips : Refactoring a vanilla JS app with sta…

A bit of a tangent and just my 2cents, but any lib/framework that I would enjoy using would have that as an extension to the core functionality. There’s a ton of complexity I’d rather be able to hook into and write my own optimistic UI (I’ll shorten this to O-UI) elements into my software rather th…

You are not wrong - but UX focuses on “what works best for users”, not on making the developer’s life easier or paving the road to an MVP. The Elements of User Experience (2010) p.82: p. 114:

I don’t think you can consider “what works for the user” in isolation of being able to get a solution out quickly to the users that works “well enough”. A problem solved sub-optimally, quickly and with continuous improvements will almost always (maybe just always?) be a better solution. The more q…

[image] dgmcguire: I do think we agree with each other My intention wasn’t disagreement - I was just pointing out that there are different perspectives and mindsets. Developers, managers, and whoever pays the bills have to be concerned with the economics of the product. Users on the other han…

[image] Phoenix LiveView is now... live! would you guys please revisit my question and give me some insights about what do you guys think about the possibilities of achieving Optimistic UI with vanilla JavaScript and/or LiveView. [image] Phoenix LiveView is now... live! So to close, we know…