react-native-image-cache VS Kingfisher

https://github.com/georstat/react-native-image-cache disclaimer: i m one of the authors

To accomplish this task, we’ve chosen georstat/react-native-image-cache library.

I gave a try to smaller libs like georstat/react-native-image-cache but ran into some stability issues while attempting very simple use cases.

If you’re not caching images already and you’re in bare react-native then use this package for caching: https://github.com/georstat/react-native-image-cache , it’s lighter than FastImage. Disclaimer: I’m the author

Fast image can be a memory hogger in flatlists, you could try https://github.com/georstat/react-native-image-cache witch stores images in file system (i’m one of the authors).

Hi fellow devs, me and my colleagues after releasing react-native-image-cache we also released a simple image gallery with thumbnails preview. The module has 0 external dependencies so it can be used with expo. We're planning on creating a react-native-image-cache package for expo too, stay tuned :) .

I see you’re using 2 modules for image-caching, me and my colleagues have created a file system remote image caching module, in our cases react-native-fast-image was killing the device memory so we got inspiration from other modules and created: https://github.com/georstat/react-native-image-cache . It uses react-native-file-access witch is by far more stable than react-native-fs that you’re using and it supports almost the same stuff.

You could use this one: https://github.com/georstat/react-native-image-cache it supports custom animating placeholder, see the example.

The 3rd party library I use GRDB SwiftyUserDefaults Kingfisher SwiftDate Popovers

Saving URLs definitely the way to go. Would recommend using a library such as Kingfisher to do the image loading/ caching for you.

I also looked into this github library but wanted to first ask if anyone's had any experience using it.

You can checkout Kingfisher library (it downloads image, and caches it). Usage is fairly simple but I would recomment that you create extension for the UIIMageView, somthing in line like this:

In native iOS, most people use Kingfisher, and i'd love to have something as good as that on our RN app. Perhaps just some pure JS library that you could plug on the existing image component, and that would handle the saving-to-disk and fetching of the image?

Kingfisher - Download and cache images

We are using https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher for smooth image loading in collection view. If the image data are not in regular text file, how can we integrate CoreData's blob data with Kingfisher?

Make sure the proper target is selected in the Add to target in the dialog as shown above, then click Add Package button. The package should successfully be added to your project. Now following the same process, this time search for the Kingfisher package using the GitHub URL as the following https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher.

Kingfisher - A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. Language: Swift.