10 Best Loading Spinner/Indicator JavaScript & CSS Libraries (2023 Update)

This is a fresh new collection of the 10 best JavaScript and/or CSS libraries to create and display animated, customizable loading spinners and loading indicators when loading dynamic content into the page.

Originally Published Jan 3 2018, updated Jan 23 2023

1. SpinKit

SpinKit

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Simple loading spinners animated with CSS. SpinKit only uses (transform and opacity) CSS animations to create smooth and easily customizable animations.


2. Loaders.css

Loaders.css

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Delightful, performance-focused pure css loading animations.


3. Single Element CSS Spinners

Single Element CSS Spinners

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A collection of loading spinners animated with CSS.


4. Pure CSS Single Element Loading Indicator Collection – text-spinners

Pure CSS Single Element Loading Indicator Collection – text-spinners

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A collection of 29+ CSS/CSS3 powered single element loading indicator for ajax requests and/or asynchronous operations.


5. Facebook Inspired Skeleton Loader In Pure CSS – Placeholder Loading

Facebook Inspired Skeleton Loader In Pure CSS – Placeholder Loading

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This is the pure CSS solution to create simple, animated, customizable skeleton loading effect as you’ve seen on Facebook.


6. css-spinner

css-spinner

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Collection of 12 small, elegant pure css spinners for your website’s loading animation.


7. Minimal SVG Loading Spinner In Pure JS – LoadingSpinner.js

Minimal SVG Loading Spinner In Pure JS – LoadingSpinner.js

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A vanilla JavaScript plugin to show a basic, animated, SVG-based loading spinner on the screen when needed.


8. Beautiful Loading Spinners & Progress Bars – Loading-Visualization

Beautiful Loading Spinners & Progress Bars – Loading-Visualization

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A JavaScript/CSS library to visualizing loading status in animated, customizable loading spinners & progress bars.


9. loadingOverlay.js

loadingOverlay.js

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A standalone JavaScript library to create a configurable loading spinner (overlay) with spin handles support.


10. Slick Content Loader With Vanilla JavaScript – slick-loader

Slick Content Loader With Vanilla JavaScript – slick-loader

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A small and developer-friendly content loader JavaScript library for the web.


More Resources:

Looking for more JavaScript & CSS solutions to create loading & progress indicates on your ap?. Here are a few resources we found on the web:

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