Loading spinner

The loading spinner component appears as a rotating grey donut with a blue segment. It serves to indicate loading progress. It is useful as a cover while the webpage is being rendered. The benefit of this component over the loading bar component is this component fits into smaller spaces. This component can be called using the iv-loading-spinner tag.

Technical information

The iv-loading-spinner is a non-reactive that takes in a number for adjusting the size of the spinning loading icon.

Props

Name: spinnerScaling

Type: Number

Default: 1

Description: The number that adjusts the size of the spinner

Usage

The size of the spinner can be altered using the spinnerScaling prop.

Design choice

The blue segment is chosen to fit in the general ImpVis blue while the grey background gives a sense of incomplete or inactive.