Display some placeholder stuff before rendering your text or media content in React Native. Compatible with Expo and react-native-web.

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• Usage with react-native-web
• The N Props syndrome (post): explaining the transition between v2 and v3

Usage

Installation

$ yarn add rn-placeholder

In your code

import {
  Placeholder,
  PlaceholderMedia,
  PlaceholderLine,
  Fade
} from "rn-placeholder";

const App = () => (
  <Placeholder
    Animation={Fade}
    Left={PlaceholderMedia}
    Right={PlaceholderMedia}
  >
    <PlaceholderLine width={80} />
    <PlaceholderLine />
    <PlaceholderLine width={30} />
  </Placeholder>
);

The v3 comes with an example app that provides different stories and example of the library:

• Stories for elements
• Stories for animations
• Stories for customizing elements
• Stories for customizing animations

Run the example apps

You can modify any call of yarn by npm install

To start the mobile app:

$ git clone https://github.com/mfrachet/rn-placeholder
$ cd rn-placeholder
$ yarn
$ cd ./example && yarn && yarn start

To start the web app:

$ git clone https://github.com/mfrachet/rn-placeholder
$ cd rn-placeholder
$ yarn
$ cd ./example-web && yarn && yarn start

The web app is also available in this github pages: https://mfrachet.github.com/rn-placeholder.

V3 features

• Rewritten in Typescript
• Less code, more fun 😎
• API Suspense oriented
• New animations