Idea: Prefetch/suspend about aura HOT 3 CLOSED

Read some more about pre-fetching. Here are some thoughts on it from James Burke when they were discussing ideas for Require.js 2.0:

I do not want to support prefetching via localStorage natively in the loader, but it can be added by a script of your choosing by overriding requirejs.load and doing something similar to what it does, but cache to localStorage after the fetch. In general though I prefer using appcache over localStorage since appcache means all the UI can run offline. It does take some time to set up correctly and it has its quirks, but to me it also gives more benefits.

@dustinboston I wasn't sure whether your pre-fetching concept wanted to store the pre-fetched content in say, a data store or just load it and not execute until some later time. I explored fetching and localStorage caching of scripts for my basket.js project and just wanted to clarify whether you wanted to store these prefetched scripts in memory only for the current "session", disposing of them on refresh.

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@addyosmani what is the status on this ? Not sure I understand the use case...

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I think the use-case was that there may be dorment widgets you would like to load into your page and 'cache' somehow but not actually execute until someone created an instance of the widget. I honestly feel like there are enough ways to work around this requirement that we could close this issue without pursuing it. Should anyone badly need it, we could always revisit.

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