Loading app in editor, spinner near app name doesn't stop spinning

What I’m trying to do: Load my app in the Anvil editor

What I’ve tried and what’s not working: Clicking on it from the app selection page

When I load my app in the app selection page, I get this spinner and it never stops spinning:
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Of note, I have recently started using the setup described here (Anvil Docs | Apps in development and production) to separate my development and production apps, and the app that won’t load is the production app (the one that I push to remotely from the development app as described in the above tutorial).

Any changes that I try to make from inside the editor do not take because the app never finishes loading and instead I get a warning that my changes will be discarded if I navigate away from the app in the editor. This is not a huge problem because the point of the production app is that I don’t want to make manual changes from inside the editor, but this problem also prevents me from even seeing the current state of the production app from within the editor, which is not ideal.

Please advise, and thank you!

Okay, so, somewhat predictably, immediately after I posted this the problem went away. Let me know if there’s anything that I could or should be doing differently to avoid this issue in the future, and apologies for the false alarm.

Okay… the problem is back again.

I’ve found this happens at time when server load (Anvil general server load) is particularly high. So for me it’s usually situational and not something I can do anything about.

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Thanks for sharing your experience, @jshaffstall. In my case I had assumed it had to do with how I had recently started pushing to that app’s repository from outside the Anvil editor, but that correlation may indeed be spurious.

I’ll be interested to hear if anyone from Anvil thinks that those two things might be related.

Hi @npschafer, could you open DevTools and check the JS console for any errors?

I’m not having the issue now but if it returns I will do as you suggest and report back. Thank you @patricia !