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🏖️ Display some placeholder stuff before rendering your text or media content in React Native
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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.io/rn-placeholder.
V3 features
- Rewritten in Typescript
- Less code, more fun 😎
- API Suspense oriented
- New animations
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