react-content-loader

Example's react-content-loader

SVG-Powered component to easily create placeholder loadings (like Facebook's cards loading). ## Features - :gear: **Customizable:** Feel free to change the colors, speed, sizes, and even **RTL**; - :ok_hand: **Plug and play:** with many presets to use, see the [examples](http://danilowoz.com/create-content-loader/#gallery); - :pencil2: **DIY:** use the [create-content-loader](https://danilowoz.com/create-content-loader) to create your own custom loaders easily; - 📱 **React Native support**: same API, as same powerful features; - ⚛️ **Really lightweight:** less than **2kB** and **0 dependencies** for web version; ## Index - [Getting Started](#gettingstarted) - [Usage](#usage) - [Native](#native) - [Options](#options) - [Examples](#examples) - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) - [Similar packages](#similarpackages) - [Development](#development) ## Getting Started ```sh npm i react-content-loader --save ``` ```sh yarn add react-content-loader ``` ### For React Native ```sh npm i react-content-loader react-native-svg --save ``` ```sh yarn add react-content-loader react-native-svg ``` CDN from [JSDELIVR](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/react-content-loader) ## Usage There are two ways to use it: **1. Presets, see the [examples](https://danilowoz.com/react-content-loader/):** ```jsx import ContentLoader, { Facebook } from 'react-content-loader' const MyLoader = () => const MyFacebookLoader = () => ``` **2. Custom mode, see the [online tool](https://danilowoz.com/create-content-loader)** ```jsx const MyLoader = () => ( {/* Only SVG shapes */} ) ``` **Still not clear?** Take a look at this working example at [codesandbox.io](https://codesandbox.io/s/moojk887z9) Or try the components editable demo hands-on and install it from [bit.dev](https://bit.dev/danilowoz/react-content-loader) ## Native `react-content-loader` can be used with React Native in the same way as web version with the same import: **1. Presets, see the [examples](#examples):** ```jsx import ContentLoader, { Facebook } from 'react-content-loader/native' const MyLoader = () => const MyFacebookLoader = () => ``` **2. Custom mode** **To create custom loaders there is an important difference:** as React Native doesn't have any native module for SVG components, it's necessary to import the shapes from [react-native-svg](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-svg) or use the named export Rect and Circle from `react-content-loader` import: ```jsx import ContentLoader, { Rect, Circle } from 'react-content-loader/native' const MyLoader = () => ( ) ``` ## Options |

Prop name and type

| Environment | Description | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **`animate?: boolean`**
Defaults to `true` | React DOM
React Native | Opt-out of animations with `false` | | **`title?: string`**
Defaults to `Loading...` | React DOM only | It's used to describe what element it is.
Use `''` (empty string) to remove. | | **`baseUrl?: string`**
Defaults to an empty string | React DOM only | Required if you're using `` document ``.
This prop is common used as:
`` which will fill the SVG attribute with the relative path. Related [#93](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader/issues/93). | | **`speed?: number`**
Defaults to `1.2` | React DOM
React Native | Animation speed in seconds. | | **`viewBox?: string`**
Defaults to `undefined` | React DOM
React Native | Use viewBox props to set a custom viewBox value,
for more information about how to use it,
read the article [How to Scale SVG](https://css-tricks.com/scale-svg/). | | **`gradientRatio?: number`**
Defaults to `1.2` | React DOM only | Width of the animated gradient as a fraction of the view box width. | | **`rtl?: boolean`**
Defaults to `false` | React DOM
React Native | Content right-to-left. | | **`backgroundColor?: string`**
Defaults to `#f5f6f7` | React DOM
React Native | Used as background of animation. | | **`foregroundColor?: string`**
Defaults to `#eee` | React DOM
React Native | Used as the foreground of animation. | | **`backgroundOpacity?: number`**
Defaults to `1` | React DOM only | Background opacity (0 = transparent, 1 = opaque)
used to solve an issue in [Safari](#safari--ios) | | **`foregroundOpacity?: number`**
Defaults to `1` | React DOM only | Animation opacity (0 = transparent, 1 = opaque)
used to solve an issue in [Safari](#safari--ios) | | **`style?: React.CSSProperties`**
Defaults to `{}` | React DOM only | | | **`uniqueKey?: string`**
Defaults to random unique id | React DOM only | Use the same value of prop key,
that will solve inconsistency on the SSR, see more [here](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader/issues/78). | | **`beforeMask?: JSX.Element`**
Defaults to null | React DOM
React Native | Define custom shapes before content,
see more [here](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader/issues/266). | See all options [live](https://danilowoz.com/react-content-loader/) ## Examples ##### Facebook Style ```jsx import { Facebook } from 'react-content-loader' const MyFacebookLoader = () => ``` Facebook Style

##### Instagram Style ```jsx import { Instagram } from 'react-content-loader' const MyInstagramLoader = () => ``` Instagram Style

##### Code Style ```jsx import { Code } from 'react-content-loader' const MyCodeLoader = () =>


```



##### List Style

```jsx
import { List } from 'react-content-loader'

const MyListLoader = () => 
```



##### Bullet list Style

```jsx
import { BulletList } from 'react-content-loader'

const MyBulletListLoader = () => 
```



### Custom Style

For the custom mode, use the
[online tool](https://danilowoz.com/create-content-loader).

```jsx
const MyLoader = () => (
  
    {/* Only SVG shapes */}
    
    
    
  
)
```

![Custom](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4838076/36352947-b87019a8-149e-11e8-99ba-c71c2bcf8733.gif)

## Troubleshooting

#### Responsive - Mobile version

In order to avoid unexpected behavior, the package doesn't have opinioned settings. So if it needs to be responsive, have in mind that the output of the package is a regular SVG, so it just needs the same attributes to become a regular SVG responsive, which means:

```jsx
import { Code } from 'react-content-loader'

const MyCodeLoader = () => (
  
)
```

#### Server-side rendering (SSR) - Match snapshot

As the main component generates random values to match the id of the SVG element with background style, it can encounter unexpected errors and unmatching warning on render, once the random value of id will be generated twice, in case of SSR: server and client; or in case of snapshot test: on the first match and re-running the test.

To fix it, set the prop [`uniqueKey`](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader#uniquekey-string---web-only), then the id will not be random anymore:

```jsx
import { Facebook } from 'react-content-loader'

const MyFacebookLoader = () => 
```

#### **Alpha is not working: Safari / iOS**

When using `rgba` as a `backgroundColor` or `foregroundColor` value, [Safari does not respect the alpha channel](https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/180), meaning that the color will be opaque. To prevent this, instead of using a `rgba` value for `backgroundColor`/`foregroundColor`, use the `rgb` equivalent and move the alpha channel value to the `backgroundOpacity`/`foregroundOpacity` props.

```jsx
{/* Opaque color in Safari and iOS */}



{/_ Semi-transparent color in Safari and iOS _/}



```

#### **Black box in Safari / iOS (again)**

Using the base tag on a page that contains SVG elements fails to render and it looks like a black box. Just remove the **base-href** tag from the `` and the issue has been solved.



See: [#93](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader/issues/93) / [109](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader/issues/109)

#### Browser supports SVG-Animate

Old browsers don't support animation in SVG ([compatibility list](https://caniuse.com/#search=SVGAnimateElement)), and if your project must support IE, for examples, here's a couple of ways to make sure that browser supports SVG Animate:

- `window.SVGAnimateElement`
- `document.implementation.hasFeature("http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#SVG-Animation", "1.1")`
- Or even use https://modernizr.com/

## Similar packages

- React Native: [rn-placeholder](https://github.com/mfrachet/rn-placeholder), [react-native-svg-animated-linear-gradient](https://github.com/virusvn/react-native-svg-animated-linear-gradient);
- [Preact](https://github.com/bonitasoft/preact-content-loader);
- Vue.js: [vue-content-loading](https://github.com/LucasLeandro1204/vue-content-loading), [vue-content-loader](https://github.com/egoist/vue-content-loader);
- Angular: [ngx-content-loading](https://github.com/Gbuomprisco/ngx-content-loading), [ngx-content-loader](https://github.com/NetanelBasal/ngx-content-loader).

---

## Development

Fork the repo and then clone it

```
$ git clone git@github.com:YourUsername/react-content-loader.git && cd react-content-loader
```

`$ npm i`: Install the dependencies;

`$ npm run build`: Build to production;

`$ npm run dev`: Run the Storybook to see your changes;

`$ npm run test`: Run all tests: type checking, unit tests on web and native;

`$ npm run test:watch`: Watch unit tests;

### React Native

As React Native doesn't support symbolic links (to link the dependency to another folder) and as there is no playground to check your contributions (like storybook), this is recommended strategy to run the project locally:

1. Create a new React Native from scratch, either Metro or create-react-native-app;
2. Install the dependency to your root project:
   `yarn add react-content-loader react-native-svg`
3. Open the project just created and clone this repository there;
4. Create your loading component and point the `react-content-loader` to the project just cloned, like:
   `import ContentLoader, { Rect, Circle } from './react-content-loader/native'`

### Commit messages

Commit messages should follow the [commit message convention](https://conventionalcommits.org/) so, changelogs could be generated automatically by that. Commit messages are validated automatically upon commit. If you aren't familiar with the commit message convention, you can use yarn commit (or `npm run commit`) instead of git commit, which provides an interactive CLI for generating proper commit messages.

## License

[MIT](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader/blob/master/LICENSE)

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