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@digitalkaoz/preload-polyfill

v1.22.5

Published

polyfilling [link rel=preload]

Downloads

206

Readme

Preload Polyfill

it just works...

What & Why

preload seems the best async loading mechanism today...

https://caniuse.com/#search=preload

some good reads:

  • https://medium.com/reloading/preload-prefetch-and-priorities-in-chrome-776165961bbf
  • https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/building-the-dom-faster-speculative-parsing-async-defer-and-preload/
  • https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/preload-what-is-it-good-for/
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Preloading_content

Install with npm

npm install @digitalkaoz/preload-polyfill

Usage

This Polyfill supports the following types:

  • [x] js
  • [x] css
  • [x] font
  • [x] image
  • [ ] audio (not well tested)
  • [ ] document (not well tested)
  • [ ] embed (not well tested)
  • [ ] fetch (not well tested)
  • [ ] object (not well tested)
  • [ ] track (not well tested)
  • [ ] worker (not well tested)
  • [ ] video (not well tested)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Preloading_content

Integration in your Page

the polyfill and the invoke script are seperated

    <script src="/dist/preload-polyfill.min.js"></script>
    <script src="/dist/preload-polyfill-invoke.min.js"></script>

additionally you need an inline script (for browsers that are preload capable, preloading stuff could be faster than loading an external sync script, and you would miss the load event)

    <script>/dist/preload-polyfill-inline.min.js</script>

Preloading Stuff

simply use it as follows:

<link rel="preload" as="script" href="jquery.js" />

Additional Features

beware those are not spec compliant features

critical

those resources will be fetched non blocking, but executed first in order they appear

<link rel="preload" critical as="script" href="jquery.js" />

fonts

to preload fonts correctly you have to set a name property on the links

<link rel="preload" name="FontName" weight="bold" as="font" crossorigin type="font/woff2" href="font.woff2" />

module

those resources will only be fetched if browser understands es6

<link rel="preload" module as="script" href="app.es6.js" />

nomodule

those resources will only be fetched if browser cant understand es6

<link rel="nomodule" as="script" href="app.legacy.js" />

AllScriptsExecuted Event

window.onload can be fired even if not all preloaded scripts are executed, therefore we dispatch an event AllScriptsExecuted which indicates all preloaded stuff is executed too.

Development

$ npm start

now visit https://localhost:5000

TODOS

  • [ ] With "disable-cache" the requests will be made twice
  • [ ] tests
  • [ ] make the execution of the preloaded scripts delay window.onload so we can get rid of the custom Event (already works in Chrome)
  • [ ] media support (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Preloading_content#Including_media)

Thanks

  • https://github.com/jonathantneal/preloadfill
  • https://github.com/aFarkas/link-preload