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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I kept overloading the website of my current project with ambient audio tracks, hover sound effects, and cinematic animations. It felt incredible on my dev machine… until I tested it on mobile or slower connections. The page crawled, audio janked, and users bounced before anything loaded properly. Standard optimizations helped a bit, but I wanted true progressive...
Birthday-Cake Loading (BCL)Capability-first progressive enhancement for React + Next.js
Why BCL?
⚡ Fast time-to-content with baseline-first rendering.
🧁 True progressive enhancement (upgrade only when the device can afford it).
♿ Accessibility-first with reduced-motion/data respect built in.
🌿 Respects user preferences (Save-Data, prefers-reduced-*).
🪶 Tiny runtime and tree-shakeable exports.
✅ Next.js-ready with a zero-config feel.
Birthday-Cake Loading (BCL)Capability-first progressive enhancement for React + Next.js
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👋 Welcome to @birthday-cake/loading Discussions!
This space is for in-depth technical conversations around Birthday-Cake Loading — capability-adaptive progressive enhancement that delivers fast, accessible, and budget-aware experiences in React and Next.js. We encourage you to: Share advanced patterns, real-world integrations, and performance benchmarks using BCL tiers (base → lite → rich → ultra). Discuss signal detection, conservative...