@vuecs/placeholder

Skeleton loading primitives for vuecs — the "shimmer" pattern. Pure CSS, self-contained (renders visibly even without a theme), and accessible out of the box.

✨ What's inside

• 🦴 <VCPlaceholder> — a single animated bar. shape (rect / pill / circle), size (xs–xl), explicit width, and a per-instance duration override.
• 🔀 <VCPlaceholderWrapper> — conditional #loading ↔ #default switch with the W3C "Loading content" ARIA wiring (aria-busy, role="status", aria-live="polite") handled for you.
• 🎞️ Three animation modes — wave (moving gradient, default), glow (opacity pulse), none; prefers-reduced-motion disables animation automatically.
• 🏗️ Composite skeletons live with their components — <VCCardPlaceholder> ships in @vuecs/elements, <VCTablePlaceholder> in @vuecs/table; both are built from this package's primitives.

📦 Installation

npm install @vuecs/placeholder

⚡ Usage

<VCPlaceholderWrapper :loading="busy">
    <template #loading>
        <VCPlaceholder shape="circle" :width="48" />
        <VCPlaceholder size="lg" />
        <VCPlaceholder size="sm" width="60%" />
    </template>
    <template #default>
        <!-- real content -->
    </template>
</VCPlaceholderWrapper>

📚 Documentation

Full reference, shapes, and animation demos: vuecs.dev/components/placeholder

License

Made with 💚

Published under Apache 2.0 License.