Overlay with spinner

Question

I\'m trying to create an overlay that overlays a page with a spinner in the middle. What\'s the simplest way to accomplish this? I only need to worry about IE 8 and above.

Answer 1

As an update, for Angular 7, a very good example, loading plus http interceptor, here: https://nezhar.com/blog/create-a-loading-screen-for-angular-apps/.

For version 6, you need a small adjustment when you use Subject. You need to add the generic type.

loadingStatus: Subject = new Subject();

I'm using angular material, so instead of a loading text, you can use mat-spinner.

Update: the code from the previous page will not complete work (regarding the interceptor part), but here you have the complete solution: https://github.com/nezhar/snypy-frontend

And as Miranda recommended into comments, here is also the solution:

The loading screen component:

loading-screen.component.ts

    import { Component, ElementRef, ChangeDetectorRef, OnDestroy, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs';
import { LoadingScreenService } from '../services/loading-screen.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-loading-screen',
  templateUrl: './loading-screen.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./loading-screen.component.css']
})
export class LoadingScreenComponent implements AfterViewInit, OnDestroy {

  loading: boolean = false;
  loadingSubscription: Subscription;

  constructor(
    private loadingScreenService: LoadingScreenService,
    private _elmRef: ElementRef,
    private _changeDetectorRef: ChangeDetectorRef
  ) { }

  ngAfterViewInit(): void {
    this._elmRef.nativeElement.style.display = 'none';
    this.loadingSubscription = this.loadingScreenService.loadingStatus.pipe().subscribe(
      (status: boolean) => {
        this._elmRef.nativeElement.style.display = status ? 'block' : 'none';
        this._changeDetectorRef.detectChanges();
      }
    );
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    console.log("inside destroy loading component");
    this.loadingSubscription.unsubscribe();
  }

}

loading-screen.component.html

loading-screen.component.css

  #overlay {
      position: fixed; /* Sit on top of the page content */
      display: block; /* Hidden by default */
      width: 100%; /* Full width (cover the whole page) */
      height: 100%; /* Full height (cover the whole page) */
      top: 0;
      left: 0;
      right: 0;
      bottom: 0;
      background-color: rgba(60, 138, 255, 0.1); /* Black background with opacity */
      opacity: 0.5;
      z-index: 2; /* Specify a stack order in case you're using a different order for other elements */
      cursor: progress; /* Add a pointer on hover */
  }

  .content {
      position: absolute;
      top: 50%;
      left: 50%;
      font-size: 50px;
      color: white;
      transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
      -ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  }

Don't forget to add the component to your root component. In my case, AppComponent

app.component.html

The service that will manage the component: loading-screen.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class LoadingScreenService {

  constructor() { }

  private _loading: boolean = false;
  loadingStatus: Subject = new Subject();

  get loading(): boolean {
    console.log("get loading: " + this._loading);
    return this._loading;
  }

  set loading(value) {
    console.log("get loading: " + value);
    this._loading = value;
    this.loadingStatus.next(value);
  }

  startLoading() {
    console.log("startLoading");
    this.loading = true;
  }

  stopLoading() {
    console.log("stopLoading");
    this.loading = false;
  }
}

Here is the http interceptor, which will show/hide the component, using the previous service.

loading-screen-interceptor.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpInterceptor, HttpRequest, HttpHandler, HttpEvent } from '@angular/common/http';
import { LoadingScreenService } from '../services/loading-screen.service';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { finalize } from 'rxjs/operators';

@Injectable()
export class LoadingScreenInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {

    activeRequests: number = 0;

    constructor(
        private loadingScreenService: LoadingScreenService
    ) { }

    intercept(request: HttpRequest, next: HttpHandler): Observable> {

        console.log("inside interceptor");

        if (this.activeRequests === 0) {
            this.loadingScreenService.startLoading();
        }

        this.activeRequests++;

        return next.handle(request).pipe(
            finalize(() => {
                this.activeRequests--;
                if (this.activeRequests === 0) {
                    this.loadingScreenService.stopLoading();
                }
            })
        )
    };
}

And in your app.module.ts, don't forget to config the interceptor

providers: [
    {
      provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
      useClass: LoadingScreenInterceptor,
      multi: true
    }
  ]