Thursday, November 21

Tag: Single Page Application

CSS Tricks

Building Skeleton Components with React

One of the advantages of building a Single Page Application (SPA) is the way navigating between pages is extremely fast. Unfortunately, the data of our components is sometimes only available after we have navigated to a specific part of our application. We can level up the user’s perceived performance by breaking the component into two pieces: the container (which displays a skeleton view when it’s empty) and the content. If we delay the rendering of the content component until we have actually received the content required, then we can leverage the skeleton view of the container thus boosting the perceived load time! Let’s get started in creating our components.   What we’re making   This is a great article that outlines how you can create a skeleton component, and th...