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Loading projects on GitHub

Components for indicating loading states like spinners, skeletons, and placeholders.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Loading projects on GitHub are AFNetworking (33.3K stars), nprogress (26.3K stars) and pydata-book (25K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Loading repositories with 189.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was pydata-book, with +5 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

pydata-book

wesm/pydata-book · ★ 25K

This is the companion repository of Jupyter notebooks and materials for the book 'Python for Data Analysis' by Wes McKinney, covering pandas, NumPy, and data analysis techniques.

react-content-loader

danilowoz/react-content-loader · ★ 14K

'react-content-loader' is an SVG-powered React component for building skeleton/placeholder loading screens, like the animated cards Facebook shows while content loads.

pyinstaller

pyinstaller/pyinstaller · ★ 13.1K

PyInstaller takes a Python script and all its dependencies and bundles them into a single standalone executable or folder, so people can run the app without installing Python or any modules.

SkeletonView

Juanpe/SkeletonView · ★ 12.9K

SkeletonView is a Swift library for iOS that turns your existing views into animated skeleton (placeholder) loading screens while data loads, so users see what content is coming.

The all-time top

10 projects · by stars

#1 · AFNetworking/AFNetworking
AFNetworking
A delightful networking library for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS, built on the Foundation URL Loading System. Deprecated since January 2023 - the repo remains online as an archive.
33.3K
#2 · rstacruz/nprogress
nprogress
NProgress is a minimalist JavaScript library that shows a slim progress bar at the top of the page, like the ones on YouTube or Medium, to indicate loading during Ajax requests or page transitions.
26.3K
#3 · wesm/pydata-book
pydata-book
This is the companion repository of Jupyter notebooks and materials for the book 'Python for Data Analysis' by Wes McKinney, covering pandas, NumPy, and data analysis techniques.
25K

4
SpinKit
19.3Ktobiasahlin/SpinKit · CSS
SpinKit is a collection of loading spinners animated with pure CSS — a stylesheet you drop into a web project to get smooth loading indicators without JavaScript or images.
5
Android-Universal-Image-Loader
16.8Knostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader · Java
Universal Image Loader (UIL) is a Java library for Android that loads, caches and displays images. It offers lots of configuration options and fine control over the loading and caching process.
6
react-loadable
16.5Kjamiebuilds/react-loadable · JavaScript
A small React library that gives you a higher-order component for loading components asynchronously with dynamic imports, which makes code-splitting a React app simple.
7
react-content-loader
14Kdanilowoz/react-content-loader · TypeScript
'react-content-loader' is an SVG-powered React component for building skeleton/placeholder loading screens, like the animated cards Facebook shows while content loads.
8
pyinstaller
13.1Kpyinstaller/pyinstaller · Python
PyInstaller takes a Python script and all its dependencies and bundles them into a single standalone executable or folder, so people can run the app without installing Python or any modules.
9
SkeletonView
12.9KJuanpe/SkeletonView · Swift
SkeletonView is a Swift library for iOS that turns your existing views into animated skeleton (placeholder) loading screens while data loads, so users see what content is coming.
10
SVProgressHUD
12.4KSVProgressHUD/SVProgressHUD · Objective-C
SVProgressHUD is a clean, lightweight progress HUD for iOS and tvOS apps — a small overlay that shows the progress of an ongoing task on top of your UI.