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>
  );
}

Other packages similar to react-spinners

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

Demo Page

Installation

With Yarn:

yarn add react-spinners

With npm:

npm install --save react-spinners

Usage

Each loader has their own default properties. You can overwrite the defaults by passing props into the loaders.

Each loader accepts a loading prop as a boolean. The loader will render null if loading is false.

IMPORTANT: This package uses emotion. Remember to add the plugin to .babelrc, for example:

{
    "presets": ["@babel/preset-react", "@babel/preset-env"],
    "plugins": ["@emotion"]
}

Example

import { useState } from "react";
import { css } from "@emotion/react";
import ClipLoader from "react-spinners/ClipLoader";

// Can be a string as well. Need to ensure each key-value pair ends with ;
const override = css`
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto;
  border-color: red;
`;

function App() {
  let [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
  let [color, setColor] = useState("#ffffff");

  return (
    <div className="sweet-loading">
      <button onClick={() => setLoading(!loading)}>Toggle Loader</button>
      <input
        value={color}
        onChange={(input) => setColor(input.target.value)}
        placeholder="Color of the loader"
      />

      <ClipLoader color={color} loading={loading} css={override} size={150} />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Example using React Class

import React from "react";
import { css } from "@emotion/react";
import ClipLoader from "react-spinners/ClipLoader";

// Can be a string as well. Need to ensure each key-value pair ends with ;
const override = css`
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto;
  border-color: red;
`;

class AwesomeComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      loading: true
    };
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="sweet-loading">
        <ClipLoader css={override} size={150} color={"#123abc"} loading={this.state.loading} />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Available Loaders, PropTypes, and Default Values

Common default props for all loaders:

loading: true;
color: "#000000";
css: "";

color prop

color prop accepts a color hash in the format of #XXXXXX or #XXX. It also accepts basic colors listed below:

maroon, red, orange, yellow, olive, green, purple, white, fuchsia, lime, teal, aqua, blue, navy, black, gray, silver

css prop

css works exactly like the css works with the emotion package. You can directly write your css in css syntax without the dirty camelCase css in jss syntax. We recommend you to use this awesome library in your project. It supports Server side rendering with HTTP2 Stream! More info about using css here

size, height, width, and radius props

The input to these props can be number or string.

• If value is number, the loader will default to css unit px.
• If value is string, the loader will verify the unit against valid css units.
  • If unit is valid, return the original value
  • If unit is invalid, output warning console log and default to px.

The table below has the default values for each loader.

Loader	size	height	width	radius	margin
BarLoader		4	100
BeatLoader	15				2
BounceLoader	60
CircleLoader	50
ClimbingBoxLoader	15
ClipLoader	35
ClockLoader	50
DotLoader	60				2
FadeLoader		15	5	2	2
GridLoader	15
HashLoader	50				2
MoonLoader	60				2
PacmanLoader	25				2
PropagateLoader	15
PuffLoader	60
PulseLoader	15				2
RingLoader	60				2
RiseLoader	15				2
RotateLoader	15				2
ScaleLoader		35	4	2	2
SyncLoader	15				2

Changelog

0.11.0-alpha.2

• Update readme usage section to use @emotion for .babelrc plugins