Retry loading a file

I’ve been logging error callbacks from loadjs for the past 5 weeks. My observations are:

• Mobile devices make up about 80% of the errors, although only around 50% of the users
  • Makes sense as mobile more likely to be lossy
• For each user impacted, there’s an average of 2 errors each
  • This despite each page loading an average of about 8 files through loadjs, i.e. it’s not even close to 100% of files being impacted at once - the rest presumably got through

This leads me to believe that in some of these cases, retrying failed file loads might actually work. Although I could probably write a wrapper around this, would you support the concept of retries in the library itself?

[amorey]

@rarkins I added a numRetries option to loadjs in v3.1.0:

loadjs(['/path/to/foo.js', '/path/to/bar.js'], 'foobar', {
  success: function() { /* foo.js & bar.js loaded */ },
  error: function(pathsNotFound) { /* at least one path didn't load */ },
  numRetries: 2
});

Let me know if you run into any issues using the feature.

[amorey]

Great! Thanks for checking the code with the browser plugin. Let me know if the new code decreases the number of network errors you’re seeing.