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Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!

For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns. When creating a 3D element, it’s hard to imagine that just one HTML element is enough to simulate something like all six faces of a cube. But maybe we can get away with something more cube-like instead by showing only the front three sides of the shape — it’s totally […]

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