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A performant way to render images in React Native with a focus on speed and memory usage. Powered by Nuke, the smallest and most performant image loading library for iOS and macOS and Coil on Android.

The framework is lean and compiles in under 2 seconds¹. Nuke has an automated test suite 2x the size of the codebase itself, ensuring excellent reliability. Every feature is carefully designed and optimized for performance.

Coil performs a number of optimizations including memory and disk caching, downsampling the image in memory, automatically pausing/cancelling requests, and more.

Features

  • Supports visionOS
  • Fast image loading
  • Memory and disk caching
  • Placeholder support:
  • Animated transition
  • Failure image
  • Typescript support
  • Written in Swift/Kotlin

To be added

  • GIF support

Installation

yarn add @candlefinance/faster-image

Usage

import { FasterImageView, clearCache } from '@candlefinance/faster-image';

<FasterImageView
  style={styles.image}
  onSuccess={(event) => {
    console.log(event.nativeEvent);
  }}
  onError={(event) => console.warn(event.nativeEvent.error)}
  source={{
    transitionDuration: 0.3,
    borderRadius: 50,
    cachePolicy: 'discWithCacheControl',
    showActivityIndicator: true,
    url: 'https://picsum.photos/200/200?random=1',
  }}
/>;

// Clear memory and disk cache
await clearCache();

Props

Prop Type Default Description
url string The URL of the image
style object The style of the image
resizeMode string contain The resize mode of the image
thumbhash string The thumbhash of the image as a base64 encoded string to show while loading (Android not tested)
blurhash string The blurhash of the image to show while loading (iOS only)
showActivityIndicator boolean false (iOS only) Whether to show the UIActivityIndicatorView indicator when the image is loading
activityColor ColorValue undefined (iOS only) Activity indicator color. Changed default activity indicator color. Only hex supported
base64Placeholder string The base64 encoded placeholder image to show while the image is loading
cachePolicy string memory The cache policy of the image
transitionDuration number 0.75 (iOS) Android (100) The transition duration of the image
borderRadius number 0 border radius of image
borderTopLeftRadius number 0 top left border radius of image
borderTopRightRadius number 0 top right border radius of image
borderBottomLeftRadius number 0 bottom left border radius of image
borderBottomRightRadius number 0 bottom right border radius of image
failureImage string If the image fails to download this will be set (blurhash, thumbhash, base64)
progressiveLoadingEnabled boolean false Progressively load images (iOS only)
onError function The function to call when an error occurs. The error is passed as the first argument of the function
onSuccess function The function to call when the image is successfully loaded
grayscale number 0 Filter or transformation that converts the image into shades of gray (0-1).
allowHardware boolean true Allow hardware rendering (Android only)
headers Record<string, string> undefined Pass in headers
accessibilityLabel string undefined accessibility label
accessible boolean undefined is accessible

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT