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.