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🪧 Universal lazy loading library for placeholder images leveraging native browser APIs

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unlazy library

unlazy

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Universal lazy loading library leveraging native browser APIs. It is intended to be used with the loading="lazy" attribute alongside (blurry) placeholder images and with a BlurHash or ThumbHash string.

Features

  • 🎀 Native: Utilizes the loading="lazy" attribute
  • 🎛️ Framework-agnostic: Works with any framework or no framework at all
  • 🌊 BlurHash & ThumbHash support: SSR & client-side BlurHash and ThumbHash decoding
  • 🪄 Sizing: Automatically calculates the sizes attribute
  • 🔍 SEO-friendly: Detects search engine bots and preloads all images
  • 🎟 <picture>: Supports multiple image tags
  • 🏎 Auto-initialize: Usable without a build step

Setup

📖 Read the documentation

# pnpm
pnpm add -D unlazy

# npm
npm i -D unlazy

Basic Usage

📖 Read the documentation

To apply lazy loading to all images with the loading="lazy" attribute, import the lazyLoad function and call it without any arguments:

import { lazyLoad } from 'unlazy'

// Apply lazy loading for all images by the selector `img[loading="lazy"]`
lazyLoad()

You can target specific images by passing a CSS selector, a DOM element, a list of DOM elements, or an array of DOM elements to lazy-load to lazyLoad.

💻 Development

  1. Clone this repository
  2. Enable Corepack using corepack enable
  3. Install dependencies using pnpm install
  4. Run pnpm run dev:prepare
  5. Start development server using pnpm run dev inside the one of the packages directories

License

MIT License © 2023-PRESENT Johann Schopplich