--- title: You May Not Need Reanimated Measure | daily.dev description: A developer walks through building loading skeletons in React Native from scratch, encountering issues with shimmer animation synchronization across multiple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-may-not-need-reanimated-measure-1o4ctjwih twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You May Not Need Reanimated Measure | daily.dev og:description: A developer walks through building loading skeletons in React Native from scratch, encountering issues with shimmer animation synchronization across multiple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-may-not-need-reanimated-measure-1o4ctjwih og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1O4CTjWIH.png og:image:alt: You May Not Need Reanimated Measure og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You May Not Need Reanimated Measure **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer walks through building loading skeletons in React Native from scratch, encountering issues with shimmer animation synchronization across multiple elements. The initial solution using Reanimated's `measure` inside `useAnimatedStyle` caused warnings and ran on every frame. The fix was switching to React Native's built-in `measure` method inside `useLayoutEffect`, which runs once, avoids null-check warnings, and is more CPU-efficient. As a bonus, the author shows how this refactor also enabled switching to Reanimated's new CSS Animations API. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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