react-spinners

What is react-spinners?

The react-spinners npm package provides a collection of loading spinner components for React applications. These spinners are customizable and can be used to indicate loading states in your application.

What are react-spinners's main functionalities?

ClipLoader

The ClipLoader is a simple circular spinner. You can customize its color, loading state, and size.

import { ClipLoader } from 'react-spinners';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <ClipLoader color={"#123abc"} loading={true} size={150} />
    </div>
  );
}

BeatLoader

The BeatLoader consists of multiple dots that bounce. You can customize its color, loading state, size, and margin between dots.

import { BeatLoader } from 'react-spinners';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <BeatLoader color={"#123abc"} loading={true} size={15} margin={2} />
    </div>
  );
}

BarLoader

The BarLoader is a horizontal bar that animates to indicate loading. You can customize its color, loading state, width, and height.

import { BarLoader } from 'react-spinners';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <BarLoader color={"#123abc"} loading={true} width={100} height={4} />
    </div>
  );
}

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react-loader-spinner

react-loader-spinner provides a variety of SVG-based loading indicators for React applications. It offers more types of spinners compared to react-spinners and allows for more detailed customization of each spinner.

react-loading

react-loading is another package that offers a collection of loading indicators for React. It is simpler and has fewer customization options compared to react-spinners, but it is lightweight and easy to use.

react-content-loader

react-content-loader allows you to create SVG loading placeholders that mimic the content being loaded. It is more focused on skeleton screens rather than traditional spinners, providing a different approach to indicating loading states.

README

React Spinners

A collection of loading spinners with React.js based on halogen. This package is bootstraped using react-npm-boilerplate

Demo

Installation

npm install react-spinners --save