rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-playground
Add a timeout to the client-side AJAX calls
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
If the backend is in a bad state (like if the Docker container is not running), then we should kill the request after some amount of time and report some kind of error.
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Research direction
Start by locating the client-side AJAX calls and their existing error handling. Implement a timeout for requests when the backend is unavailable, report an error to the user, and verify the behavior when the Docker-backed backend does not respond.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100