SMRTR ProgrammingMay 10, 2026Dev.to

Stop hand-drawing skeletons. Let your UI trace itself magically.

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shimmer-trace is a React library that auto-traces your UI's DOM to generate synchronized skeleton loaders using a ghost overlay, ResizeObserver, and CSS masking — eliminating manual grey boxes, layout shifts, and out-of-sync shimmer effects.

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