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The Best Loading States Are No Loading States

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Jenna Smith with some pretty solid UX advice as it relates to loading states:

Rather than designing another loading state, I improve the preload strategy until the issue disappears entirely.

She points to Route Transitions and preloading data as solutions that get closer to pages that load everything at once, like a default website, while still keeping the SPA approach (assuming you actually need that).

Route transitions don’t eliminate loading, but they do give us a way to move it back to where I personally believe it belongs… at the app level rather than the component level.

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