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Muki
Muki

Reputation: 3641

Preloading animation for React webpack bundle

I have a single page webapp, which is about 300Kb big. It gets bundled with webpack and uses React/Redux.

How do I put a small loading spinner upfront until the page is loaded? I can image

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4278

Answers (2)

Dmitriy V.
Dmitriy V.

Reputation: 67

I also encountered with this question with one exception: I wanted to display a loading progress bar. I ended up writing a webpack plugin and a custom asset bootloader. Check out my demo project repository.

Here is the result:

Upvotes: 1

Arwed Mett
Arwed Mett

Reputation: 2749

One way would be to insert the loading animation in the index.html

e.g.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <div id="loader" />
        </div>
        <script src="build/app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

Then after the bundle.js is loaded it will render in the content and the loading animation will disappear.

EDIT:

Another method is to use a progressive webapp. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/10/splashscreen

However this feature might only be available in modern browsers, which is why the first approach should be used as a fallback method. The benefit however is, that if your app is offline it will still play the loading animation and can give specific error messages.

Upvotes: 5

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