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How to Image skeleton without using useRef

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uselessOP
i have alot of images in me landing page and i am not using a map to load them, each one has its own style, width, height, ...

how can i add skeleton loading for them without using useRef and shipping more JS to the user?



  const checkImg = () => {
    if (ImgRef.current?.complete) {
      setIsLoading(false)
    } else {
      setTimeout(() => {
        checkImg()
      }, 200)
    }
  }

 useEffect(() => {
    checkImg()
  }, [])

   return<>
       {isLoading && <Skeleton className={`h-[75vh] w-2/3`} />}

        <img
          ref={ImgRef}
          src={``}
          alt={''}
          aria-label=""
          loading="lazy"
          className={isLoading ? 'hidden' : 'rounded-3xl border'}
        />
      <>

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fuma 💙 joulev
What should your skeleton looks like? If it's a solid color, just use the placeholder property with base64 image
You can also use [blur placeholder](https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/api-reference/components/image#blurdataurl)

Otherwise, you have to listen to the onLoad event. And display your skeleton when it's not loaded
const [isLoaded, setIsLoaded] = useState(false)
return <>
  {!isLoaded && <LoadingState />}
  <Image
     onLoad={() => setIsLoaded(true)}
     {...props}
  />
</>
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fuma 💙 joulev
Then the above solution should works for you
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uselessOP
but i don't want to use nextjs Image
i want to use the normal img
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fuma 💙 joulev
Why? Next.js Image can optimise the image for you.
And just replace Image with img, if you wanna use the native image element
onLoad event also exists in img
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uselessOP
the thing is when i deploy to netlify, Image uses lamda functions and i am limited to 125K free (i can pass that number easily in my website because of the users)