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When to use `networkidle2`?
See original GitHub issueI’m reading the docs for networkidle2 and understand what it will do but the docs don’t really outline its use or why 2 connections instead of 1 or 5. Basically when should one use this flag?
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@armanm I won’t be giving any specific URLs, but a few of the common scenarios are:
networkidle0comes handy for SPAs that load resources withfetchrequests.networkidle2comes handy for pages that do long-polling or any other side activity.Do you have any concerns about these signals?
@armanm both
networkidle0andnetworkidle2events are heuristics to determine page load state. We picked these since we find them working quite good for a lot of real-world use cases.