Workspace - After connecting bank account, white screen is shown when opening the tabs

[kbecciv]

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Action Performed:

1. Access staging.new.expensify.com
2. Sign into a valid account (I used applause.expensifail.com account)
3. Connect a bank account through VBA flow
4. Tap on "Profile" > "Workspace"
5. Tap on the internal options (For example: "Issue cards, Pay Bills, etc.)

Expected Result:

The user expects for the page to immediately load as it has in past regressions or display some type of message in case there needs to be a wait time or something similar

Actual Result:

The user is shown a blank white page that can stay for a couple of seconds

Workaround:

Uknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web
• iOS
• Android
• Desktop App
• Mobile Web

Version Number: 1.1.68.2

Reproducible in staging?: Yes

Reproducible in production?: No

**Email or phone of affected tester: ** applauseteser+emilio@applause.expensifail.com/Emilio98

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Bug5587227_White_Screens_shown_on_Staging.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Slack conversation:

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @marcaaron (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[marcaaron]

Seems like this is the expected behavior based on the changes we agreed to here...

#9170 cc @amyevans

But looking at this video now it does look a little janky.

I think since we are in the process of improving the Offline UX we shouldn't go too crazy with trying to get this 100% perfect. But the workspace settings are kind of an important flow so maybe we should get it looking right. Open to other opinions.

cc @aldo-expensify @luacmartins @francoisl as well.

[marcaaron]

I understand that basically contradicts the thumbs up in this thread #9170 (comment) (😶‍🌫️) but I did not watch the video 😬

[aldo-expensify]

I think since we are in the process of improving the Offline UX we shouldn't go too crazy with trying to get this 100% perfect. But the workspace settings are kind of an important flow so maybe we should get it looking right. Open to other opinions.

I agree, there will be cases where a crappy connection makes the white screen stay for a while. I'm guessing it should be easy to put a spinner as a temporary thing.

[Julesssss]

There are a few of these issues and I agree that this could/should be improved with spinner or content loading shapes (don't know the correct name for this). But also, it can probably wait until after offline/refactor has been completed.

Removing the deploy blocker label.

[amyevans]

I'll throw together a PR adding spinners to make this a little better for now, and we can improve later more holistically 😄