Asynchronous UIs

A great post by Alex McCaw, creator of the Spine MVC JavaScript¹ framework, about how front-end developers do Ajax interactions wrong. Users shouldn’t be stopped because we’re waiting on the server to respond. The interface should respond immediately, and a background sync action should be kicked off.

I’ve been thinking about this for the past year, and wanted to reflect these ideas in Shipyard, and make them come alive in the Add-on Builder, myself.

I refuse to use CoffeeScript, so it’s off limits to me. ↩