Spin.Js Reviews

We have implemented into our ASP.NET website few year back. Things I like about Spin JS are

1. Very lightweight

2. Easy to integrate into existing websites

Spin JS is a dynamic loader for all the website loads; during my time at one of my previous organisations, we used this, and it helped improve the CAQ Ration by 22%, but it was way back in 2019.

As per the current user interface trends in the industry, where we have unique designs like Material UI and other open-source UI, the spinner looks dull, reducing the usability factor.

We had a CMS site that had a lot of info to process, and since it was not optimised, there were a lot of customers dropping by in like 30 seconds after coming to the site; optimisation would have taken a long time and that's when we had a quick way of getting things started and retain customers, it helped us maintain customers by 25% since we were showing loading bar improving the usability factors.

I was there when the world of web development was taken by storm by the (re)discovery of the superpowers of XMLHttpRequest(), and already had a few years of experience under my belt.So I remember well we were missing a way of indicating that an Ajax request was being performed; soon after that came websites that allowed you to download a plethora of GIF and PNG spinners of varying size and (usually low) quality. Spin.js is the highly polished stepchild of those early attempts, and provides a neat ES6 JS script that can generate a spinner from a number of parameters. If you are the rare kind of developer who needs exactly this kind of indicator, there's nothing better that Spin.js.

Well, most CSS frameworks nowadays provide built-in spinners of various kinds, so using an highly specialised, parametrised script like this can be viewed as a sort of overkill, given that nobody will really care about the length and radius of your loading indicators.

Well, if you need this exact kind of spinner and/or you are of the maniacal type who needs to micromanage every single aspect of what you are creating, then go for it; else you may be good to go with the brea dand butter spinners provided by your CSS framework of choice or copy/paste SVG animations from the interwebs or whatever.

Actually I used Spin.js only once, for fun, on a side project where I wanted to have a really huge loading indicator to elicit surprise in my user, and since this script uses scalable graphics that are always crisp and well defined, it allowed me to generate a larger-than-life spinner that occupied almost the entire screen.