Jobs panel is super SLOW for first open after restart

[taylordowns2000]

To reproduce, restart your server and not the difference in time it takes to open the jobs panel the first time, then all subsequent times.

Implementation Notes:

• This is because we lazy load the list of adaptors from the file system. (@stuartc , is this definitely reading from the filesystem, or from NPM?)
• It should be handled by spawning a new task that does this async during startup. I.e., don't block startup (because that would add to the delay before the inbox URL comes online) but rather spawn an async task that loads the list of adaptors during startup and the continue on your merry way.

[amberrignell]

Potential solution: expose the caching option to give people the choice and document it.
(ex so they can enable it for dev mode)

[taylordowns2000]

Love it. Yesterday, Stu was actually arguing for making the caching default but always attempting a refresh async on startup. Can you open that issue? - Enable caching in a sensible location by default - Attempt to refresh the cache whenever the application starts up. (For offline use, this will fail but it's OK — make the message a warning, not an error.) - Add documentation on how to adjust the cache location to override the sensible default.

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[stuartc]

@taylordowns2000 lets split this to get everyone happy and less annoyed asap - so enable caching by default and document it. Then we address the cache + refresh facility as it's probably a bit more effort than just setting some ENV vars.

[taylordowns2000]

ok. can you @stuartc discuss priority with @amberrignell at standup today?