Successive Requests to Server's PostsRoute Occasionally Receive Empty Post Lists

[m-flak]

Affected Components:

• org.m_flak.myblog.server.routes.PostsRoute
• posts.js
• monthlist.js

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Description:

It seems that successive requests to the backend's PostsRoute at /posts will occasionally result in an empty response, but this does not always happen!

I'm not sure why this is happening, and it is extremely frustrating.

This bug causes some or all of the frontend components to fail. We'll either see the posts and an empty post-by-month list or vice versa. HOWEVER, sometimes everything works as it should.

Workaround:

Refreshing the heck out of the home page until things show up. This is unacceptable! 😠

[m-flak]

Update: From what I can tell, this appears to be caused by multiple requests being sent simultaneously by the browser to the backend's /posts route.

The developer console shows the requests sent out by the Post and MonthList components to be at the exact same time. It remains to be seen if this a result of running a local dev environment.

With that being said:

• Determine if latency over-the-wire affects behavior in a positive way.
• Create queue system for these requests.

[m-flak]

FIXED: Took a different route in solving this issue...

My solution is not the greatest, but it works. 😎