Manage how workflow canvas auto refreshes and results to loss of unsaved changes

[christad92]

There are moments when the workflow canvas automatically refreshes due to a web socket disconnection or probably throttled network. When this happens, unsaved changes are lost leaving the user frustrated.

A few questions here:

• Is the socket connection loss ideal? Can we stop it?
• If we can't stop it, how do we fix the mount/reconnect process to ensure that we don't lose unsaved changes

[josephjclark]

This happened to me today on demo.openfn.org

• I created a new workflow.
• I made a bunch of changes without saving
• After a couple of minutes the canvas reset before my eyes
• I waited and watched. After about a minute the canvas flickered, like it had reset again from empty to empty

Then I did this:

• I saved the workflow
• I made some changes
• I did not save my changes
• After a minute the Save button lost its dirty state, as if I had saved (I actually assumed it had autosaved maybe?)
• I refreshed the page and the changes were lost

So something is up. I didn't notice this in local dev while working on the chart this week. Only seeing it on demo right now