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.

Using npm

npm install react-worker-image
yarn add react-worker-image

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='https://image-url' />

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.