User engagement while waiting for backend to boot up

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PSLab Web App https://pslab.io

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Closed jithinbp closed 5 years ago

jithinbp commented 7 years ago

Heroku reaps free dynos after 30 minutes of inactivity
A request made to an inactive dyno takes 10 seconds, and this can be confusing to users who may think that the frontend app has frozen.
A message/countdown timer can be shown when the app is opened indicating that the backend is waking up