Theo's Typesafe Cult•4mo ago

Is it possible to render a placeholder to display while a client component loads?

I kinda wanted <suspense> to do this for me but it doesn't seem to. Let's say I have a client component (from a library) that is 100px when it renders. When I include that in my server component, the initial HTML payload just has an empty comment where it should be (), then when the client hydrates it pops in and suddenly what was previously 0px is now 100px. I'd like to be able to render a skeleton that disappears after the hydration, is this possible?

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greypixel•4mo ago

Hm, kinda answered my own question here:

"use client";

import { useLayoutEffect, useState } from "react";

export function SomeClientComponent() {
  const [isRendered, setIsRendered] = useState<boolean>(false);
  useLayoutEffect(() => {
    setIsRendered(true);
  }, []);
  return !isRendered ? (
    <div className="h-10 w-[180px] rounded-sm bg-red-300">&nbsp;</div>
  ) : (
    <SomeClientComponent />
  );
}

"use client";

import { useLayoutEffect, useState } from "react";

export function SomeClientComponent() {
  const [isRendered, setIsRendered] = useState<boolean>(false);
  useLayoutEffect(() => {
    setIsRendered(true);
  }, []);
  return !isRendered ? (
    <div className="h-10 w-[180px] rounded-sm bg-red-300">&nbsp;</div>
  ) : (
    <SomeClientComponent />
  );
}

This seems to work pretty well, guess I'll make a component to wrap this behaviour

erik.gh•4mo ago

not sure if i fully understand but can‘t you just use min-width?

greypixel•4mo ago

by default nothing is rendered at all so nothing to put min-width on and I don't have control over <SomeClientComponent />

erik.gh•4mo ago

wrapping the component is not possible?

greypixel•4mo ago

I could wrap it in a min-width div sure but I wanted to render a block that disappears rather than just have component pop in I guess I can do a min-width min-height div with a background color

erik.gh•4mo ago

when i run into problems like these i am normally able to resolve them by editing the layout "one layer up"

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Is it possible to render a placeholder to display while a client component loads?