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react-worker-image

Build Status React component to fetch image resources via web workers

react-worker-image is a React component for loading images via a web worker. Thereby not blocking the main thread and speeding up page load time.

Installation

Using npm

npm install react-worker-image

yarn add react-worker-image

Usage

react-worker-image exports one react component which takes src as a prop, and an optional prop of placeholder, style and imageClass which are applied to the img tag.

const ImageWorker = require('react-worker-image').default;

or

import ImageWorker from 'react-worker-image';

usage in code

<ImageWorker src='http://image-url' />

Props List

Prop typeRequiredtype
srcyesstring
placeholderoptionalstring or Component
styleoptionalObject
imageClassoptionalstring
containerClassoptionalstring

The above props are applied to the img tag.

Found a bug file them here.

Component in Action

Observe the page Load time at the bottom right corner in both cases.

The first is via a webworker and the second is the regular get.

<img src="./screen/screen.gif">