# jh3y/whirl

CSS loading animations with minimal effort!

Repository: https://github.com/jh3y/whirl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/whirl
Homepage: https://whirl.netlify.com
Language: SCSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: whirl, pseudo-elements, animation, css, loader, progress, loading-animations, loading, loading-spinner, loading-animation, spinner, spinners, loading-screen, loading-indicator, loading-bar, loading-spinners, css-loading-animations, hacktoberfest, hacktoberfest2020
Last push: 2023-01-03T17:33:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4576, "days_push": 1338, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1835, forks 250 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:42.552153+00:00)

## What it is
Whirl is a curated collection of CSS loading animations (spinners, bars, and indicators) built with pseudo-elements, distributed as both CSS and SCSS files via npm. Developers import only the specific loader styles they need into their web projects.

## Use cases
- add a loading spinner to a web page
- css loading animations for my app
- show a progress indicator while data loads
- find css-only spinners without javascript
- loading screen animations for a website
- import a single css loader into my bundle

## When to choose
- you want lightweight, CSS-only loading animations with no JavaScript dependency
- you need to import just one or two loader styles into a bundled frontend project
- you want SCSS source files you can customize to match your design
- you need a variety of spinner and loading bar styles to pick from

## When to avoid
- you need animated loaders for native mobile or desktop apps rather than the web
- you want a JavaScript component library with built-in loading states and lifecycle control
- you require complex, script-driven loading sequences or progress tracking
- your project already has a UI framework that ships its own spinner components

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, ui-components, css-framework
- domain: frontend, web-development, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: css-loading-animations, loading-spinner, scss, pseudo-elements, loader-collection, spinners, loading-indicator

## Member repositories
- jh3y/whirl (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.552153+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:18:31.746612+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jh3y/whirl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.552153+00:00, sha 22bcc348930e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.