react-worker-image

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 type	Required	type
src	yes	string
placeholder	optional	string or Component
style	optional	Object
imageClass	optional	string
containerClass	optional	string

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.