7 Best Skeleton Loaders In JavaScript And Pure CSS
As a web developer, I understand the importance of providing a smooth and efficient user experience.
One crucial aspect of this is giving visual feedback to users when something is loading in a web app. This is where skeleton loaders come into play.
Skeleton loaders (also known as skeleton loading screen or skeleton loading indicator) are a technique that displays a placeholder or a preview of the content that is being loaded, creating the illusion of a faster load time and enhancing the overall user experience.
In this blog post, I'll be sharing my top 7 picks for open-source skeleton loaders written in jQuery, Vanilla JavaScript, and/or Pure CSS.
Let's get started and discover the perfect skeleton loader for your project!
1. Facebook-like Content Placeholder Plugin - jQuery Skeleton loader
A jQuery loader plugin used to display Facebook-style animated content placeholders while loading your page's content via AJAX requests.
2. Skeleton Loading Screen With jQuery And CSS3 - avnSkeleton
A jQuery plugin used to create a customizable, CSS3 animated, Facebook inspired skeleton preview of your web content while waiting for async data.
3. Animated Skeleton Loading Screens In Pure CSS
A CSS skeleton loader library that creates an animated skeleton preview of your block content (e.g. text, cards, images) when the data is loading.
4. Facebook Inspired Skeleton Loader In Pure CSS – Placeholder Loading
This is the pure CSS solution to create simple, animated, customizable skeleton loading effect as you’ve seen on Facebook.
5. Create A Skeleton Screen From Auto Generated Placeholders – Placeholdifier
A CSS library that lets you generate a Skeleton Screen (also called website wireframe, website mockup) from any HTML elements within the document.
6. Customizable Screen Skeleton Loader In CSS – css-skeletons.css
A CSS library to generate an animated, highly customizable skeleton preview of your web content using a single DIV. Can be used as an interactive loading indicator when your content is being loaded into the document.
7. Animated Skeleton Loader In Pure JavaScript
A JavaScript library that helps you create a responsive, animated, customizable skeleton loader (also known as a content placeholder) for any content that is loading.
More Resources:
Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to implement skeleton loaders on your web & mobile? See jQuery Loading Indicator and Skeleton Loaders sections.
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