Examples

Each card is a real component — the skeleton beside it is extracted from the live DOM. Tweak the color, texture, or toggle dark mode.

Blog Post

Hero image, title, excerpt, author row.

Real UI

We Moved to a Monorepo and It Broke Everything

Three weeks of broken builds, circular deps, and one very long Friday. Here's what we actually learned.

Jake F.

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function BlogPostPage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/blog')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <BlogPost data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.

Product Card

Image, price, CTA button.

Real UI

Aeropress Clear

Same recipe, now in borosilicate glass. Brews a clean cup in 90 seconds.

$40

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function ProductCardPage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/product')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <ProductCard data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.

Social Feed

Avatars, text, images, engagement counts.

Real UI

Rachel@rachbreaks

finally got the espresso dial-in right. 18g in, 36g out, 28 seconds. took me three months and 4 kg of beans.

89 likes · 14 reposts

David P.@dvdp

just realized I mass-renamed a prod table in a migration. deploy went out 4 min ago. currently sprinting.

312 likes · 89 reposts

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function SocialFeedPage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/feed')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <SocialFeed data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.

Chat Thread

Alternating bubbles with mixed widths.

Real UI

the deploy went out but I think the migration is stuck

which env? staging or prod

staging. the users table alter has been running for 9 min

on it, checking pg_stat_activity rn

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function ChatThreadPage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/chat')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <ChatThread data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.

Dashboard

Nav, stats, chart, sidebar list.

Real UI

Splitwise

You owe$48.20

Owed to you$124.50

Settled17

Dinner — $67.40

Groceries — $34.12

Uber — $18.90

Coffee — $5.50

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function DashboardPage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/dashboard')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <Dashboard data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.

Product Grid

Search bar, image grid, buttons.

Real UI

Search products...

Ceramic Pour-Over$34

Wool Beanie$28

Field Notes 3-Pack$15

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function ProductGridPage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/ecommerce')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <ProductGrid data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.

Article

Hero, byline, body text, pull quote.

Real UI

Opinion

Your Startup Doesn't Need a Design System Yet

Ren WatanabeJan 9, 2025 · 6 min read

Every three months someone on the team proposes building a design system. Tokens, primitives, a Figma library, the works. We're twelve people. We have nine screens.

The impulse is understandable — consistency matters. But the cost of maintaining shared abstractions at this stage almost always outweighs the benefit.

Ship the tenth screen first. Then talk about systems.

Copy-paste is underrated. A component you copied and tweaked for one page is faster to build, easier to delete, and won't break four other pages when you change it.

Skeleton

import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard/react'apos;boneyard-js/react'boneyard/react'apos;

function ArticlePage() {
  const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/article')

  return (
    <Skeleton
      loading={isLoading}
      color="#e0e0e0"
    >
      {data && <Article data={data} />}
    </Skeleton>
  )
}

// color: bone fill color (default: '#e0e0e0')
// animate: pulse animation (default: true, set false for solid)
// The skeleton is generated automatically from your real UI.