Adding infinite capability to Hostess

[MalditoBarbudo]

Hi @JohnCoene
I've been toying a little with implementing infinite capabalitiy to Hostess class, you can see it here:
https://github.com/MalditoBarbudo/waiter/tree/hostess_infinite
At the moment, only the simplest case is working (it was just a proof of concept, so is not closing). You can check the branch code with a slight modification of your provided example:

library(shiny)
library(waiter)

ui <- fluidPage(
  use_hostess(), # include dependencies
  hostess_loader("load", text_color = "black", center_page = TRUE)
)

server <- function(input, output){
  
  # initialise
  hostess <- Hostess$new("load", infinite = TRUE)
  hostess$start()
  
  # # increment
  # for(i in 1:10){
  #   Sys.sleep(runif(1)) # random sleep
  #   hostess$set(i * 10)
  # }
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

Before continuing, I would like to ask you some questions:

• I think it would be a nice addition, as the Hostess class have a lot of styles customizations that can be used, but lack of infinite option, thus making it not so good when you can not compute steps. But, do you think is worthy to implement it?
• In case is worthy, am I going in the correct way? or do you have another approach that would be better?
• Finally, do you want to me continue trying to develop this for all Hostess modes (several ids, notifications....)? I can use some spare time to delve deeper on this if you think is a good idea 😉

[JohnCoene]

Hi @MalditoBarbudo !

Thank you for this: an infinite argument with the hostess would be more than welcome! Feel free to create a pull request

[JohnCoene]

@MalditoBarbudo FYI: I've tagged this repo as valid for hacktoberfest :)