shravanmeena/react-native-shimmer-placeholder

Placeholder/ Skeleton of React Native

React Native Shimmer Placeholder

Placeholder for both IOS and Android

Get Started

Installation

npm i react-native-shimmer-placeholder --save

or

yarn add react-native-shimmer-placeholder

Usage

Simple

For expo

import { createShimmerPlaceholder } from 'react-native-shimmer-placeholder'
import LinearGradient from 'expo-linear-gradient';

const ShimmerPlaceholder = createShimmerPlaceholder(LinearGradient)

<ShimmerPlaceHolder />
<ShimmerPlaceHolder visible={isFetched}>
  <Text>
    Wow, awesome here.
  </Text>
</ShimmerPlaceHolder>

or

import ShimmerPlaceHolder from 'react-native-shimmer-placeholder'
import LinearGradient from 'expo-linear-gradient';


<ShimmerPlaceHolder LinearGradient={Linear} />
<ShimmerPlaceHolder visible={isFetched} LinearGradient={Linear}>
  <Text>
    Wow, awesome here.
  </Text>
</ShimmerPlaceHolder>

For react-native-linear-gradient

import LinearGradient from 'react-native-linear-gradient';
import { createShimmerPlaceholder } from 'react-native-shimmer-placeholder'

const ShimmerPlaceHolder = createShimmerPlaceholder(LinearGradient)

...

<ShimmerPlaceHolder />

or

import LinearGradient from 'react-native-linear-gradient';
import ShimmerPlaceHolder from 'react-native-shimmer-placeholder'

...

<ShimmerPlaceHolder
  LinearGradient={LinearGradient}
/>

Connect more components

import { createShimmerPlaceholder } from 'react-native-shimmer-placeholder'
import LinearGradient from 'react-native-linear-gradient';

const ShimmerPlaceholder = createShimmerPlaceholder(LinearGradient)
const FacebookContent = () => {

  // Handle animation
  const avatarRef = React.createRef()
  const firstLineRef = React.createRef()
  const secondLineRef = React.createRef()
  const thirdLineRef = React.createRef()

  React.useEffect(() => {
    const facebookAnimated = Animated.stagger(
      400,
      [
        avatarRef.current.getAnimated(),
        Animated.parallel([
          firstLineRef.current.getAnimated(),
          secondLineRef.current.getAnimated(),
          thirdLineRef.current.getAnimated()
        ])
      ]
    );
    Animated.loop(facebookAnimated).start();
  }, [])

  return (
    <View>
      <View style={{ flexDirection: "row" }}>
        <ShimmerPlaceholder
          ref={avatarRef}
          stopAutoRun
        />
        <View style={{ justifyContent: "space-between" }}>
          <ShimmerPlaceholder
            ref={firstLineRef}
            stopAutoRun
          />
          <ShimmerPlaceholder
            ref={secondLineRef}
            stopAutoRun
          />
          <ShimmerPlaceholder
            ref={thirdLineRef}
            stopAutoRun
          />
        </View>
      </View>
    </View>
  )
}

More Detail see this

Props

Prop	Description	Type	Default
LinearGradient	Linear Gradient components ('react-native-linear-gradient' or 'expo-linear-gradient')	Component	undefined
visible	Visible child components	boolean	false
style	Container Style	Style	{backgroundColor: '#ebebeb',overflow: 'hidden'}
shimmerStyle	Shimmer Style only	Style	{}
contentStyle	Content Style when visible	Style	{}
location	Locations of shimmer	number[]	[0.3, 0.5, 0.7]
width	Width of row	number	200
duration	Duration of shimmer over a row	number	1000
height	Height of row	number	15
shimmerWidthPercent	Percent of shimmer width	number	1.0
isReversed	Reverse direction of animation	boolean	false
stopAutoRun	Stop running shimmer animation at beginning	boolean	false
isInteraction	Defines whether or not the shimmer animation creates an interaction handle on the InteractionManager	boolean	true
shimmerColors	Colors of the shimmer.	string[]	['#ebebeb', '#c5c5c5', '#ebebeb']
containerProps	Props passed to the outermost View	ViewProps	undefined
shimmerContainerProps	Props passed to the View which contains the loading animation	ViewProps	undefined
childrenContainerProps	Props passed to the View which contains the children	ViewProps	undefined

Methods

Method	Description	Type
getAnimated	get Animated of Placeholder	Animated

Helpers

createShimmerPlaceholder

/**
 * To create ShimmerPlaceholder by Linear Gradient. Only useful when you use 3rd party,
 * For example: react-native-linear-gradient
 * @param {Linear Gradient Component} LinearGradient - 'expo-linear-gradient' by default
 *
 * @example
 *
 * import LinearGradient from 'react-native-linear-gradient';
 * import { createShimmerPlaceholder } from 'react-native-shimmer-placeholder'
 *
 * const ShimmerPlaceHolder = createShimmerPlaceholder(LinearGradient)
 *
 * ...
 *
 * <ShimmerPlaceHolder />
 */

Contribute

Welcome help me to build this awesome lib.

License

MIT