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I did assume this was a webpack or otherwise package for loading css libraries. Took me a while to work out what it actually was.

Probably because I’ve had such headaches with webpack within rails and would love something to make it disappear (yes I know there are newer solutions but each one breaks things in new and unique ways).

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Yeah. I also had to get down past all of their points before I saw the images to understand what this is. And one of the points ironically said that it didn't waste my time.

I've never heard the term "loader" being used here. Since a loader would be something that loads. These don't load anything, they just indicate that loading us happening. I typically call these "spinners" or sometimes "throbers" as that is what they do.

I would strongly recommend write "loading spinners" into one of the first sentences on the page.

Yes. Loading spinner. Loading indicator. Loading bar.

I associated 'css-loader' with a Webpack loader for css: https://webpack.js.org/loaders/#styling

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