Reusable spinner with text in LWC

You will learn the following things

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a reusable spinner with different sizes, variants, and help text. Always try to build a reusable component that helps you write test cases once and build a robust component.

Video Tutorial

Code

Create Lwc component spinnerDemo and add the following code to the respective files.

spinnerDemo.html

<template>
    <lightning-card title="Reusable Spinner Demo">
        <lightning-button label="Show Spinner" variant="brand" 
        onclick={spinnerHandler} name="showOne"></lightning-button>
        <p>Some text 1</p>
        <p>Some text 1</p>
        <p>Some text 1</p>
        <p>Some text 1</p>
        <p>Some text 1</p>
        <template if:true={showOne}>
            <c-lightning-loader
            spinner-text="Fetching data from server"
            size="large"
            variant="brand"
            ></c-lightning-loader>
        </template>
        
    </lightning-card>
    <lightning-card title="Reusable Spinner Demo">
        <lightning-button label="Show Spinner" variant="brand" 
        onclick={spinnerHandler} name="showTwo"></lightning-button>
        <p>Some text 2</p>
        <p>Some text 2</p>
        <p>Some text 2</p>
        <p>Some text 2</p>
        <p>Some text 2</p>
        <template if:true={showTwo}>
            <c-lightning-loader
            spinner-text="Loading..."
            size="small"
            variant="base"
            ></c-lightning-loader>
        </template>
        
    </lightning-card>
    <lightning-card title="Reusable Spinner Demo">
        <lightning-button label="Show Spinner" variant="brand" 
        onclick={spinnerHandler} name="showThree"></lightning-button>
        <p>Some text 3</p>
        <p>Some text 3</p>
        <p>Some text 3</p>
        <p>Some text 3</p>
        <p>Some text 3</p>
        <template if:true={showThree}>
            <c-lightning-loader
            spinner-text="Wait..."
            size="medium"
            variant="inverse"
            ></c-lightning-loader>
        </template>
        
    </lightning-card>
</template>

spinnerDemo.js

import { LightningElement } from 'lwc';

export default class SpinnerDemo extends LightningElement {
    showOne=false
    showThree= false
    showTwo = false
    spinnerHandler(event){ 
        const {name} = event.target
        this[name] = true
        let timer = window.setTimeout(()=>{ 
            this[name] = false
            window.clearTimeout(timer)
        }, 5000)
    }
}

spinnerDemo.js-meta.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LightningComponentBundle xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <apiVersion>50.0</apiVersion>
    <isExposed>true</isExposed>
    <targets>
        <target>lightning__AppPage</target>
    </targets>
</LightningComponentBundle>

Final Output

Now place your component to the record page. You will see the following output

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