img-fast

Work in progress

img-fast is a framwork-agnostic typescript ES6 web component meant to load images nicer (and faster). The goals are:

• Quickly get info (dimensions, thumbnail, etc.) by range requesting the first few kilobytes of all images on page.
• Make SVG-placeholder with correct proportions
• Prioritize full size downloads with intersection-observer (lazy load)
• Where possible load the EXIF-thumbnail of jpeg's as placeholder
• Support multiple server side resolutions (to rerender higher quality stepwise)
• Public hooks (observables) to react to stages of image loads (e.g. start some other AJAX-request after lo-res has loaded)

So far the only dependencies are ts-exif-parser and rxjs

Example page

(work in progress) https://wiegell.github.io/img-fast/