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A fully-featured React loader overlay component
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A fully-featured React loader overlay component

via Dev.to ReactSwapnilH Patil2d ago

I got tired of copy-pasting loading overlay code between React projects — so I published it as an npm package. how many times have you written something like this? const [ isLoading , setIsLoading ] = useState ( false ); // then somewhere... a semi-transparent div, a spinner, z-index battles, // position: fixed, you know the drill. yeah. same. so I built loader-overlay — a simple React component that wraps your content and handles all of that for you. getting started: npm install loader-overlay then in your component : import LoaderOverlay from ' loader-overlay ' ; function MyPage () { const [ loading , setLoading ] = useState ( false ); return ( < LoaderOverlay active = { loading } > < YourContent /> < /LoaderOverlay > ); } that's genuinely it. no 15-step config, no provider wrapping your whole app, no style clashes. I built this because the existing options were either too heavy or too rigid. loader-overlay is intentionally small and flexible — use your own spinner, scope it to a sec

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