Auto-refresh repository list

djjd47130 / GitHubBackup

Simple UI for bulk downloading GitHub repositories

http://www.jerrydodge.com/GitHubBackup

MIT License

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Auto-refresh repository list #53

Open djjd47130 opened 5 years ago

djjd47130 commented 5 years ago

Make the repository list automatically refresh periodically via the new event-driven repo list component TGitHubRepoList.

djjd47130 commented 5 years ago

The challenge with this is respecting the API restrictions of maximum number of calls per hour. The task itself is tricky to implement, but need to be even more careful not to hit this limit. This should consist of only refreshing list if the screen is currently open and focused. Otherwise, similar to the GitHub client itself, it shouldn't do any work if the app isn't focused.

djjd47130 commented 5 years ago

While thinking of ideas to implement this, here are a few...

Only auto-refresh when user has window focused and active.
Always sort by pushed with latest first, and observe top item - if different than last refresh, load the rest of the pages, otherwise, don't bother.
Offer registering multiple accounts (dirty and hacky, but could work).

djjd47130 commented 5 years ago

This will be too much to add any time soon, based on current challenges.