{"id":10564,"date":"2026-07-28T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/?p=10564"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:48:30","slug":"the-best-loading-states-are-no-loading-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/the-best-loading-states-are-no-loading-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Loading States Are No Loading States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jjenzz.com\/best-loading-states-are-no-loading-states\/?ck_subscriber_id=2246502080\">Jenna Smith with some pretty solid UX advice<\/a> as it relates to loading states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than designing another loading state, I improve the preload strategy until the issue disappears entirely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Route transitions don&#8217;t eliminate loading, but they do give us a way to move it back to where I personally believe it belongs\u2026 at the app level rather than the component level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[3,62,241,240],"class_list":["post-10564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-javascript","tag-react","tag-router","tag-tanstack"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pexels-photo-36656998.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10566,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions\/10566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/master.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}