React Graceful Image

An image component for gracefully dealing with image errors, by providing optional lazy loading, optional placeholder and configurable retries on failure. Particularly useful in situations where your application might be used in poor signal areas such as when travelling on a train, a bus or a car.

Example

1	2	3	4

1. Default browser behaviour when image fails due to bad signal
2. With react-graceful-image placeholder
3. With react-graceful-image disabled placeholder
4. With react-graceful-image retries - if the image fails to load, the package will gracefully re-attempt loading the image again

(note: these are not mutually exclusive, for example the default behaviour makes use of both 2 & 4 together.)

Installation

npm install --save react-graceful-image

Basic Usage

import React, { Component } from "react";
import Image from "react-graceful-image";

class YourComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Image
        src="path_to_image"
        width="300"
        height="300"
        alt="My awesome image"
      />
    );
  }
}

Default Behaviour

1. Render an SVG placeholder - if environment doesn't support SVG, then avoid rendering the placeholder
2. Check if placeholder is within the visible viewport - if so then load the image
3. If image loads successfully - display the image by fading it in
4. If image fails to load - retry loading the image starting with a 2 second delay and doubling it with every retry (by default retry stops after 8 tries)

Prop Options

Prop	Description	Default	Type
src	Image url / path	None	string
width	Image width	None	string
height	Image height	None	string
className	Image class name	None	string
alt	Image description	"Broken image placeholder"	string
style	Image styles	None	object
placeholderColor	Placeholder's color	"#eee"	string
noPlaceholder	Turn off placeholder rendering	false	bool
retry	Retry algorithm's configuration, consisting of count, delay and accumulate	{count: 8, delay: 2, accumulate: 'multiply'}	object
noRetry	Turn off re-trying	false	bool
noLazyLoad	Turn off lazy loading	false	bool

Retry

You can modify the default retry algorithm by supplying a retry prop consisting of 3 properties: count, delay and accumulate:

• count specifies the number of times you want to retry
• delay specifies the delay between retries (in seconds)
• accumulate specifies how the delay should increase with each retry, possible values: "multiply" (default), "add" or false (false can also be represented by simply omitting this property)

Accumulate

• accumulate: "multiply" will multiply delay after each retry by the given delay value, i.e. if delay: 2 is given then 1st retry will be in 2 seconds, 2nd retry will be in 4 seconds, 3rd retry will be in 8 seconds, 4th retry will be in 16 seconds etc.
• accumulate: "add" will increment delay after each retry by the given delay value, i.e. if delay: 2 is given then 1st retry will be in 2 seconds, 2nd retry will be in 4 seconds, 3rd retry will be in 6 seconds, 4th retry will be in 8 seconds, etc.
• accumulate: "false" will keep the delay constant between retries, i.e. if delay: 2 is given then retry will run every 2 seconds

Examples

1: Below code snippet will display a light grey (default) SVG placeholder, if it is within the visible viewport then it will load the actual given image and fade it in once it is done loading. If loading the image fails, then it will retry loading the image again for a maximum of 10 times, with a fixed 2 second delay between each try.

import React, { Component } from "react";
import Image from "react-graceful-image";

class YourComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Image
        src="path_to_image"
        width="250"
        height="250"
        style={{ padding: "20px" }}
        alt="My awesome image"
        retry={{ count: 10, delay: 2 }}
      />
    );
  }
}

2: Below code snippet will display a blue SVG placeholder, if it is within the visible viewport then it will load the actual given image and fade it in once it is done loading. If loading the image fails, then it will retry loading the image again for a maximum of 8 times, with initial delay of 2 seconds, which will then increase to 4 seconds, then to 8 seconds, then to 16 seconds, and so on (default retry configuration).

import React, { Component } from "react";
import Image from "react-graceful-image";

class YourComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Image
        src="path_to_image"
        className="content-image"
        alt="My awesome image"
        placeholderColor="#0083FE"
      />
    );
  }
}

3: Below code snippet will display a light grey (default) SVG placeholder, if it is within the visible viewport then it will load the actual given image and fade it in once it is done loading. If loading the image fails, then it will retry loading the image again for a maximum of 15 times, with initial delay of 3 seconds which will then increase to 6 seconds, then to 9 seconds, then to 12 seconds, and so on.

import React, { Component } from "react";
import Image from "react-graceful-image";

class YourComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Image
        src="path_to_image"
        width="150"
        height="150"
        style={{ padding: "20px" }}
        alt="My awesome image"
        retry={{ count: 15, delay: 3, accumulate: "add" }}
      />
    );
  }
}