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Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM
- junon 6mo agoNo examples, no mention of why someone would want this, site is broken on mobile.
- dvh 6mo agoBut it has animated logo (that you have to click on to start) and chart of GitHub stars progression in time!
- gavmor 6mo agoHm... A Twitter comment is not documentation, but: > every skeleton screen you've ever hand-coded is a waste of time > you're literally measuring padding and guessing widths to build a worse version of a layout that already exists in your DOM > so I made a package that just reads the real one Linked from the readme.
- junon 6mo agoI've never personally seen a skeleton screen. I don't know why anyone would need this, and struggling to think of what problems are solved by them.
- G_o_D 6mo agoYou may have seen. https://i.postimg.cc/qqCYtL6V/Screenshot-2026-04-08-134800.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/qqCYtL6V/Screenshot-2026-04-08-134800.j... The pic above is representation of skeleton screen on youtube.com when opened in browser Placeholder with same dimension or colors as actual content, which will get replaced it keep user engaged rather having a blank screen that suddenly fills or spinners.
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- smokedetector1 6mo agoThis is cool but I'm confused - it says it generates the bones at "build time" not at "runtime." But you're calling this headless bone generator while your app is running, right? That sounds like runtime.
- nozzlegear 6mo agoI love seeing things that support Svelte.
- m000 6mo agoI have no idea what this means, and I don't think I'm alone. Make a video dammit.
- simongr3dal 6mo agoTheir doc linked at the bottom actually has a pretty nice example. https://boneyard.vercel.app/how-it-works https://boneyard.vercel.app/how-it-works
- steveharing1 6mo agoAppreciate this! For anyone looking for examples of skeletons it generates, you can visit their doc
- evantbyrne 6mo agoI was going to say it seems potentially useful, but engagement stats for this on Github and X seem unnatural and the anon crypto author makes it a hard no for me
- bedroom_jabroni 6mo agoI don't like skeletons that much but it's really creative to have the headless browser inspect your running dev env and capture element size & placement snapshots.
- rzkyif 6mo agoSeems interesting, but I wonder how this would be better than just asking an LLM to implement the skeletons? For most components, current generation models should be able to understand the component code and produce skeletons that occupies exactly the same space
- CharlesW 6mo agoI do this often, and they do! Yours is the same question I had.
- mock-possum 6mo agoAm I understanding this right - in order to make ‘accurate’ placeholder content, it preloads the actual content, then uses that to guide the appearance of the placeholder content, that it shows while you’re waiting for your actual content to load… Was this an April fools joke?
- Doxin 6mo agoYou're close. it loads the actual content while you're developing your app to create skeletons. In production it then uses the data gathered in development. It's a clever trick.