Utility to load images and React components progressively

React Progressive Loader

Defer the load of non-critical images and components if they are off-screen.

This library makes possible to progressively load images, just like Medium does, and React components only when the user is ready to consume the content. Additionaly, take component based code splitting for free. Two at the price of one.

Installation

// with yarn
yarn add react-progressive-loader

// with npm
npm install react-progressive-loader

Usage

// ES2015+ and TS
import { Defer, Img } from 'react-progressive-loader'

Components

Defer

Defers the loading of a React component

Props:

render: The content to render
renderPlaceholder: The content to render while the content is loading
loadOnScreen: Load the content only when the area it is going to be rendered is visible for the user

<Defer
  render={() => import('./comp')}
  renderPlaceholder={() => <div>Loading...</div>}
/>

The render prop can also be a React element

<Defer
  render={() => <img src='my-img.png'></img>}
  renderPlaceholder={() => <div>Loading...</div>}
/>

Load the content only when it is on-screen

<Defer
  render={() => <img src='my-img.png'></img>}
  renderPlaceholder={() => <div>Loading...</div>}
  loadOnScreen
/>

Img

Progressively load images. This component makes a smooth animated transition in the following order:

[Background]->[Placeholder]->[Content]

Props:

src: The source of the content
placeholderSrc: The source of the image that is going to be showed while the content is loading
bgColor: The color of the backgroud that is going to be showed while the placeholder is loading
loadOnScreen: Load the content only when the area it is going to be rendered is visible for the user

This component also accepts all the img properties (className, style, ...)

Basic usage

<Img
  src='image.jpeg'
  placeholderSrc='image-placeholder.jpeg'
/>

Transitioning only between background and content. Sometimes you may want to transit only from background to content by finding the dominant color of the image and assigning it to bgColor. This strategy is used by Google image search.

<Img
  bgColor='#FA8054'
  src='image.jpeg'
/>