On demand progress bar

[MohammadZarifiyan]

Hello
It would be great that if i could trigger progress bar whenever i want.
For example, Sometimes i want send a POST Request to an external API. So It would be great if i could show inertia progress bar to user before calling API and hide it when API call finished.

[vitalijalbu]

You can use onStart onSuccess or onFinish methods from useForm()

[MohammadZarifiyan]

What do you mean? I'm not using a form. I just want to call external API which does nothing with InertiaJS.

[vitalijalbu]

i think they use axios so you can use ueForm too... just try... else you must create a redux state and use that value on app.js file to know if progress true or false...

[RobertBoes]

Inertia by default uses nprogress, you can just use that if you want. Inertia also just makes calls to nprogress.

[RobertBoes]

It's still no problem if Inertia uses something else? You can easily use something else if Inertia decides to not use nprogress anymore.

[MohammadZarifiyan]

If inertia gives access to the progress bar, the developed software will have more integrity. Because by updating inertia js, there is no need to change the progress bar in all the parts that are used.

[MohammadZarifiyan]

Example 1:

this.$inertia.startProgress();

Example 2:

import NProgress from 'nprogress';
NProgress.start();

In the first example, if inertia js decides to use another package instead of nprogress, inertia js users do not need to do anything special.
But in the second example, if inertia js uses another package instead of nprogress, programmers should find all the parts that use nprogress and then try to find a solution to adapt their program to the new progress bar.

[RobertBoes]

Then make a PR on how you think it should work?
The progress bar isn't even tied to Inertia in the first place, if Inertia decides to use another library it wouldn't break anything if you're using your own implementation. I feel like you're complaining a lot without actually providing a solution, while Inertia already gives you the option to build your own solution.

[RobertBoes]

But in the second example, if inertia js uses another package instead of nprogress, programmers should find all the parts that use nprogress and then try to find a solution to adapt their program to the new progress bar.

No they don't, because you'd never need to interact with it directly, if you do that's up to yourself. And your proxy idea would also break if you're using your own implementation.