1341625 - refresh the ui periodically(?)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering Graveyard :: Applications: Balrog (frontend), defect, P3)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Balrog's UI only loads things when you switch pages. Eg: when you load the Rules page, it loads the Rules. If someone changes something while you've got the Rules page open, you will not know.

I'm not sure exactly what we want here, but some way to update the UI without refreshing the page would be lovely. Or at the very least, an indicator that you're looking at an out of date version (whether on the page as a whole, or the individual objects on the page).

I thought about simply grabbing the latest rules/releases/whatever every N seconds and updating the page, but that could be quite jarring (eg: I'm thinking intensely about the Firefox Rules, and suddenly one of them disappears or changes). It's probably worth doing some research and looking for ways in which other websites have solved this.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I'm unassigning this because it's a lower priority bug that I don't have time to mentor right now, and because there's some things in the works that may mean we WONTFIX this.

Comment 2

[Obinna Okwuolisa]

Alright.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Mass closure of old Balrog UI bugs. We've built a new UI in https://github.com/mozilla-frontend-infra/balrog-ui, and any issues which are still valid should be filed as Issues there.

I think https://github.com/mozilla-frontend-infra/balrog-ui/issues/6 covers aspects of this.