I usually tell new hires this often; understand how this company makes money. Is engineering seen as a necessary cost or income multiplier on the balance sheet.
In most companies, it falls in the land of IT, a cost center.
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I'm not sure about how the open-source element of this is supposed to work, but if it ends up with more people building things, creating and contributing, while making a dollar, that's a good thing.
So we simulate the changes as the user makes the action, 'optimistic UI updating' and then wait for confirmation on the server to persist the data. During that waiting period, we tell the user that their changes are being saved, but they are free to do what ever they wish.
It lets the user know things are happening, but might not persist because we are still in the mode of saving, yet allows the user to carry on with their tasks while we deal with the information they send us.
If they close the page, during this time, they are well aware that the changes are happening. The request has been made, it just didn't return yet.