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  Alex Li•380

  @awexliPosted over 4 years ago

  Hey Kong, sweet solution!

  Unfortunately, we are all at the mercy of the API :-( However, even the fastest ones have a window of time before receiving a response, and they're not guaranteed to be consistent either!

  That said, it's good practice to have a loading indicator to give visual feedback to the user that their data is being fetched - one way is to change the button text 'Shorten It!' to 'Loading...' while data is being fetched and then setting it back to 'Shorten It!' when you've successfully received a response (There are a myriad of ways you can show loading states)

  But we can't always assume responses will be successful either, so catching any unknown errors and displaying that to the user in a digestible way is just as important -- which I'll leave you to figure out 😉

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  Kong•155

  @kmongyPosted over 4 years ago

  Ah. Thanks for the reply. Yeah I had thought about doing a loading state, but also wanted to "finish" the project haha. Perhaps in version 1.01 of this I'll add that that loading state. Thanks.

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