web Async interactions - fix "hanging" UI during long running actions

Async interactions - fix "hanging" UI during long running actions

Open kulmann opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

Async tasks currently have the tendency of blocking the UI. The also get hibernated by the browser when the tab becomes a background tab.

Needs e.g. web workers / separate threads for:

May 23 '22 12:05 kulmann

Related: we want progress indicators for those interactions, see https://github.com/owncloud/web/issues/6183

May 23 '22 12:05 kulmann

~~For whoever works on this: have a look at https://github.com/GoogleChrome/workbox first~~

workbox is unmaintained for 10 months now... doesn't look like a good choice anymore.

Look into https://vueuse.org/core/useWebWorker/ instead.

May 24 '22 08:05 kulmann

When a user deletes a large number of files, the web looks like it is hanging.

dialog "delete files" hangs
web is disabled while deleting process
If we click "cancel" button -> deleting process will contunue until all files are deleted

Sep 12 '22 12:09 ScharfViktor

Related: https://github.com/owncloud/web/pull/7902

Nov 11 '22 09:11 lookacat

Related / a very good reason for Web Workers: https://github.com/owncloud/web/issues/10474

Feb 12 '24 22:02 kulmann

Needs research first

Apr 24 '24 11:04 tbsbdr

Closing in favour of these stories:

A web worker for deleting files has been implemented already via https://github.com/owncloud/web/pull/10916.

May 23 '24 08:05 JammingBen