react-native-skeleton-flow 🚀

A zero-dependency, high-performance, automatic layout skeleton placeholder creator for React Native and Expo. It preserves your exact layout structures and turns your text, images, and container components into beautiful, hardware-accelerated shimmering skeleton views.

🎬 Demo

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Features

• ⚡ GPU-Accelerated Shimmer: Uses standard native driver transforms (useNativeDriver: true) for 60FPS fluid diagonal skew animations.
• 🤖 Automatic Layout Scanning: Automatically translates your existing View, Text, and Image layouts into placeholders. No need to recreate layout metrics manually.
• 📦 Zero Native Code: No complex linking or native dependencies required. 100% compatible with Expo Go and React Native Bare.
• 🛠️ Manual Customization: Exposes <SkeletonFlow.Item> for building bespoke layout loading placeholders.
• 🎨 Fully Customizable: Modify background colors, gradient highlight speeds, curves, and shading.

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Installation

npm install react-native-skeleton-flow

or

yarn add react-native-skeleton-flow

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Usage

1. Automatic Mode (Default)

Simply wrap your visual screen with <SkeletonFlow> and pass the loading state. The component tree's structural layout will be converted into shimmering bones automatically:

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, Text, Image, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';
import { SkeletonFlow } from 'react-native-skeleton-flow';

export default function ProfileScreen() {
  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(true);

  return (
    <SkeletonFlow loading={isLoading} style={styles.container}>
      <View style={styles.profileHeader}>
        <Image 
          source={{ uri: 'https://placekitten.com/100/100' }} 
          style={styles.avatar} 
        />
        <View style={styles.profileText}>
          <Text style={styles.name}>Jane Doe</Text>
          <Text style={styles.bio}>Software Engineer & Designer</Text>
        </View>
      </View>
      <View style={styles.content}>
        <Text style={styles.body}>
          This text content automatically turns into multiple lines of shimmering bars based on length!
        </Text>
      </View>
    </SkeletonFlow>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    padding: 16,
  },
  profileHeader: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    alignItems: 'center',
    marginBottom: 20,
  },
  avatar: {
    width: 60,
    height: 60,
    borderRadius: 30,
  },
  profileText: {
    marginLeft: 16,
    gap: 4,
  },
  name: {
    fontSize: 18,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
  },
  bio: {
    fontSize: 14,
    color: '#666',
  },
  content: {
    marginTop: 10,
  },
  body: {
    fontSize: 15,
  },
});

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2. Manual Placement

If you want to construct custom-tailored skeleton loading cards explicitly, use <SkeletonFlow.Item>:

import { SkeletonFlow } from 'react-native-skeleton-flow';

const LoadingCard = () => (
  <SkeletonFlow loading={true}>
    <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row', padding: 12 }}>
      <SkeletonFlow.Item style={{ width: 50, height: 50 }} borderRadius={25} />
      <View style={{ marginLeft: 12, justifyContent: 'center' }}>
        <SkeletonFlow.Item style={{ width: 120, height: 16 }} />
        <SkeletonFlow.Item style={{ width: 80, height: 12, marginTop: 6 }} />
      </View>
    </View>
  </SkeletonFlow>
);

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API Properties

<SkeletonFlow>

Wraps the skeleton context, initiating the animated shimmer timeline loop.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
loading	boolean	(Required)	When true, automatically swaps visual content for skeleton loaders.
backgroundColor	string	#E2E8F0	Base background color of the bone shapes.
highlightColor	string	rgba(255,255,255,0.55)	Shimmer overlay color.
duration	number	1500	Shimmer loop duration in milliseconds.
style	StyleProp<ViewStyle>	undefined	Style overrides for the top-level container.

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License

MIT