Show HN: PlaceholderJS – Simple and Lightweight Placeholders(placeholderjs.com)
placeholderjs.com
Show HN: PlaceholderJS – Simple and Lightweight Placeholders
https://placeholderjs.com
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Up there with leftpad as a library you probably don't need. https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...
What's the advantage of this over sth like
Would never install a package for this, and for local dev, there are more than enough other placeholder services left that allow hotlinking.
If it's fun to build, cool, but I would never recommend anyone to add dependencies for things like this.
const Placeholder = ({background = "gray", width = "100%", height = "200px", text}) => (<div style={{background, width, height, display: "flex"}}>Would never install a package for this, and for local dev, there are more than enough other placeholder services left that allow hotlinking.
If it's fun to build, cool, but I would never recommend anyone to add dependencies for things like this.
Additionally, for our non-React developers out there, I created a simple CDN that functions similarly via the PlaceholderJS.com domain.
In the future, I'd like to add support for more frameworks, placeholder text, additional customization, etc.
I'm looking to improve this and continue to support it and would love your feedback.