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

Methods

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