Pre loading

Getting help Questions
1

Hello,
Is there a way to add a preloader before displaying the data view? Now that the dataset has reached 1,000 records, it takes a few seconds for the data to load, and I’d like to show a loading indicator instead of a blank screen during that time.
I would appreciate if you can give me a real example
Thanks in advance
Regards,

2

Hi @ykifahh

We have the pre-loader planned for this year. We already gave it a priority, however the specification is not yet ready.

I will keep you updated.

3

Thank you for your response. I’ll be waiting for the update. If you’re also able to add pagination, that would be a game changer for Handsontable.
regards

4

Pagination is even higher on the list of feature we’d like to add this year. Please contact me at support@handsontable.com so I can create a notification to update you when it’s ready.

5

Thank you, the email has been sent to support@handsontable.com. Do you have an estimate of how long it might take?

6

Thank you. I got your email.

It is too soon to specify when the features will be ready. I hope that within next 2 months we would have a POC for one of them. However, it’s nearly vacation season so that may be posponed.

7

Thank you!

8

Hi @ykifahh

I just wanted to share an update. My colleague just started working on this pull request Dialog Plugin: Core Modal System by adrianspdev · Pull Request #11754 · handsontable/handsontable · GitHub which is needed to provide the preloading mechanism.

9

Thank you for the update. Just to clarify—does this mean that preloading is now available? If so, could you please share a simple code example that includes preloading?
Regards.

10

No, not yet. It is being worked on a local branch. Till it is merged to the main branch and released it it won’t be officially available.
If, however, you would like to test it sooner there’s an option. On NPM we store our pre-release details https://www.npmjs.com/package/handsontable?activeTab=versions. They have all of the changes merged to the develop branch (pre-release branch) on the given date. So when preloader feature is merged via Dialog Plugin: Core Modal System by adrianspdev · Pull Request #11754 · handsontable/handsontable · GitHub you’ll be able to use that following URL to test it:

However, it is worth mentioning that pre-releases are not fully tested so we do not recommend using them on the production.

11

Thank you! Please keep me informed once it’s officially released, so I can integrate it into my application.