Add pretty loading/rendering screens

kittsville / Pyroon

An interactive visualisation library of Reddit's switch-a-roos

http://pyroon.sci1.uk/

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Add pretty loading/rendering screens #5

Closed kittsville closed 7 years ago

kittsville commented 7 years ago

I'm thinking take a bunch of the stuff I did for Actypus and use it on Pyroon's front-end. This would involve a loading screen for assets and a screen while the browser renders the Cytoscape graph.

This would serve two purposes:

Faster loading times (various Google recommended optimizations)
Users don't just see a janky Time New Roman "Loading" in the top left*

Which doesn't give me* much faith in the site loading and I made the damn thing

kittsville commented 7 years ago

Check fancy-front branch for progress

kittsville commented 7 years ago

Loading the site via Chrome's throttling tools shows horrific performance over slower connections. I got Actypus loading in fractions of a second. Those synchronous scripts are ruining page loads! Will need to wrap Cytoscape/etc. in wrapper functions so they can be loaded async.

kittsville commented 7 years ago

Wrapping covered in #13.