Showing Spinner GIF during $http request in Angula

Question

I am using the $http service of angular to make an ajax request.

How to show a loader gif during the ajax request?

I don't see any ajaxstartevent or similar event in documentation.

Answer 1

Another solution to show loading between different url changes is:

$rootScope.$on('$locationChangeStart', function() {
  $scope.loading++;
});

$rootScope.$on('$locationChangeSuccess', function() {
  $timeout(function() {
    $scope.loading--;
  }, 300);
});

And then in the markup just toggle the spinner with ng-show="loading".

If you want to display it on ajax requests just add $scope.loading++ when the request starts and when it ends add $scope.loading--.

Answer 2

Sharing my version of the great answer from @bulltorious, updated for newer angular builds (I used version 1.5.8 with this code), and also incorporated @JMaylin's idea of using a counter so as to be robust to multiple simultaneous requests, and the option to skip showing the animation for requests taking less than some minimum number of milliseconds:

var app = angular.module('myApp');
var BUSY_DELAY = 1000; // Will not show loading graphic until 1000ms have passed and we are still waiting for responses.

app.config(function ($httpProvider) {
  $httpProvider.interceptors.push('busyHttpInterceptor');
})
  .factory('busyHttpInterceptor', ['$q', '$timeout', function ($q, $timeout) {
    var counter = 0;
    return {
      request: function (config) {
        counter += 1;
        $timeout(
          function () {
            if (counter !== 0) {
              angular.element('#busy-overlay').show();
            }
          },
          BUSY_DELAY);
        return config;
      },
      response: function (response) {
        counter -= 1;
        if (counter === 0) {
          angular.element('#busy-overlay').hide();
        }
        return response;
      },
      requestError: function (rejection) {
        counter -= 1;
        if (counter === 0) {
          angular.element('#busy-overlay').hide();
        }
        return rejection;
      },
      responseError: function (rejection) {
        counter -= 1;
        if (counter === 0) {
          angular.element('#busy-overlay').hide();
        }
        return rejection;
      }
    }
  }]);

Answer 3

.factory('authHttpResponseInterceptor', ['$q', function ($q) {
        return {
            request: function(config) {
                angular.element('#spinner').show();
                return config;
            },
            response : function(response) {
                angular.element('#spinner').fadeOut(3000);
                return response || $q.when(response);
            },
            responseError: function(reason) {
                angular.element('#spinner').fadeOut(3000);
                return $q.reject(reason);
            }
        };
    }]);



 .config(['$routeProvider', '$locationProvider', '$translateProvider', '$httpProvider',
            function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider, $translateProvider, $httpProvider) {
                $httpProvider.interceptors.push('authHttpResponseInterceptor');
    }
]);

in your Template
<div id="spinner"></div>


css   

#spinner,
#spinner:after {
  border-radius: 50%;
  width: 10em;
  height: 10em;
  background-color: #A9A9A9;
  z-index: 10000;
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  bottom: 100px;
}
@-webkit-keyframes load8 {
  0% {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  100% {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}
@keyframes load8 {
  0% {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg);
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  100% {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg);
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}

Answer 4

create directive with this code:

$scope.$watch($http.pendingRequests, toggleLoader);

function toggleLoader(status){
  if(status.length){
    element.addClass('active');
  } else {
    element.removeClass('active');
  }
}

Answer 5

if you want to show loader for every http request call then you can use angular interceptor to manage http request calls ,

here is a sample code

<body data-ng-app="myApp">
<div class="loader">
    <div id="loader"></div>
</div>

<script>
    var app = angular.module("myApp", []);

    app.factory('httpRequestInterceptor', ['$rootScope', '$location', function ($rootScope, $location) {
        return {
            request: function ($config) {
                $('.loader').show();
                return $config;
            },
            response: function ($config) {
                $('.loader').hide();
                return $config;
            },
            responseError: function (response) {
                return response;
            }
        };
    }]);

    app.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', '$httpProvider',
        function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $httpProvider) {
            $httpProvider.interceptors.push('httpRequestInterceptor');
        }]);

</script>
</body>

Answer 6

https://github.com/wongatech/angular-http-loader is a good project for this.

Example here http://wongatech.github.io/angular-http-loader/

The code below shows a template example/loader.tpl.html when a request is happening.

<div ng-http-loader template="example/loader.tpl.html"></div>