Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user decide what to do next, or use cached data. This is a great remedy for all kinds of flaky-web trouble: slow networks, clogged backends, overloaded databases — your user will never have to watch a spinner forever.
