react-native-img-cache

React Native Image Cache

CachedImage component and Cache image manager for React Native. Based on this article.

Installation

npm install react-native-image-cache --save

react-native-fetch-blob

This package has a dependency with react-native-fetch-blob. If your project doesn't have a dependency with this package already, please refer to their installation instructions.

Usage

CachedImage

The CachedImage component assumes that the image URI will never change. The image is stored and served from the application cache.

import {CachedImage} from "react-native-image-cache";

<CachedImage source={{ uri: "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yaqe1qesQ8c/maxresdefault.jpg" }} />

The mutable property implies assumes that the image URI can change over time. The lifetime of this cache is the one of the running application and it can be manually busted using ImageCache.

import {CachedImage} from "react-native-image-cache";

<CachedImage source={{ uri: "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yaqe1qesQ8c/maxresdefault.jpg" }} mutable />

ImageCache

The ImageCache class can register observers to the cache.

const immutable = true;
const observer = (path: string) => {
    console.log(`path of the image in the cache: ${path}`);
};
ImageCache.getCache().on(uri, observer, immutable);

We use the observer pattern instead of a promise because a mutable image might have different version with different paths in the cache.

Observers can be deregistered using dispose:

ImageCache.getCache().dispose(uri, observer);