Discussion topics and projects

Here is the discussion forum for this part of the course. Please either post your comments/observations/questions or share your creations.

Here are some suggestions for topics of discussion and optional projects:

SUGGESTED TOPICS

Did you hear about the Fetch API and the Service Workers API? These emergent APIs are not mature yet and not ready for mainstream use, but they are promising… We will certainly cover them in a future version of this course. Meanwhile, take a look at them! The Fetch API is a candidate successor for XHR and XHR2. Compare this example from the Week 1 and this same example that uses Fetch (and two polyfills to make it work in your browser!!!).
Did you note that using XHR2 for monitoring progress is really simple and efficient? I used to rely on jQuery for Ajax request but a few years ago I switched for native XHR2. What is your experience? Please share 😉
How can we monitor the speed of an upload/download in bytes per second? What would you propose? Did you find any interesting resources on the Web that explain that?

If you know how to program server-side code, please make a small app that will upload files, monitor the progress of the upload, save the files server-side, and send back a message containing the URLs of the files. Better: create a Web page that displays links to the uploaded files.
Try to write an assetLoader function that will download a set of images and sound (maybe using the BufferUtility seen during Week 1), but this time with a progress bar. This could be useful for a game, or for a Web app that needs to load resources before starting.