We Have 17 Loading Flags and Nobody Knows Why

[oleksii-shepel]

Modern applications spend a surprising amount of effort tracking whether they are doing something.

loading
isLoading
userLoading
pending
isPending
fetching
saving
updating

Eventually every screen contains enough booleans to launch a small space program.

Maybe the problem isn't the names.

Maybe the problem is that we keep modeling asynchronous work as state.

Should execution have its own abstraction?

Can we track work directly instead of creating more flags?