How to create a fully customizable Content Loader in React

Easily create Facebook or Instagram like content loader in React. In this article, you will learn how to display a customizable Facebook, Instagram, or Grid like a content loader.

Easily create Facebook or Instagram like content loader in React

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Introduction

Loaders are part of almost every application. Whenever you are loading some data from the API, you need to display the loading message or loading icon to notify the user that the data is loading.

In this article, you will learn how to display a customizable Facebook, Instagram, or Grid like a content loader.

In this article, you will learn:

1. How to create fully customizable Facebook or Instagram like content loader to show the loading animation

2. How to customize the width, height, background color, foreground color

3. How to change loading animation speed

4. How to show different loaders for showing loading table data or loading grid, loading images, etc.

Prerequisites

You will need the following to complete this tutorial:

• A valid Git installation
• Node.js installed locally

This tutorial was verified with node v13.14.0, npm v6.14.4, react v16.13.1, and react-content-loader v.5.1.0.

Step 1 — Install and run the react app

To start with, clone this GitHub repository by executing the following command from the terminal

git clone https://github.com/myogeshchavan97/react-content-loader-demo.git

The starter code is present in the starter-code branch and complete source code is present in the master branch so switch to the starter-code branch by executing the following command from the terminal

git checkout starter-code

Install the dependencies and react-content-loader package with version 5.1.0 and start the React app

npm install
npm install [email protected]
npm run start

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