the app loads slowly

[damonmcc]

when opening the app page, it sometimes takes ~5 seconds for anything to appear. it then often takes ~5 seconds for the interactive components to appear. other than being annoying, users may think something is wrong

some of this might be unavoidable limitations of this being a marimo WebASsembly notebook, but there may be ways to shorten or at least warn about these loading times

I think there are a couple of contributors to the loading times:

• general startup time
• installing python packages
• long-running notebook cells

adding conditional logic or marimo lazy loading for expensive cells like python package instillation or loading csv files may help (e.g. a button for a user to press and then wait for things to load)

using parquet files instead of csvs may help too