A fully-featured React loader overlay component

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] =...

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A fully-featured React loader overlay component

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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 section, or

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