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Fade in Lazy Loaded Images With React and CSS: A Quick Guide

A web developer and MVB shows how he created a component in React that allows you to fade-in lazy loaded images with CSS and React.

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Say you want to lazy load some images on your website. You don't want them to just pop into existence and scare the user. A nice fade in effect works much better.

Here's the problem: There's no good pre-built React component for this. Or I suck at finding it.

There's a react-lazyload, which does the lazy loading part for you. It keeps components from mounting into the DOM until the user actually sees them.

This helps make your website faster to load. No need to load large images until a user can actually see them.

But the default experience can be jarring. When images finally load, they just pop into view.

react-lazyload offers a fade-in example, but it's outdated and doesn't work with modern libraries. And it's cumbersome to use.

So I built a general FadeIn component. I'll opensource it, but it needs some polish first, and I'd like your opinions on how to make it better.

The component is just 40 lines of code. Pretty simple.

class FadeIn extends React.Component {
  state = {
    loaded: false ,
  } ;
  onLoad = ( ) => this.setState ( { loaded: true } ) ;

  render( ) {
    const { height, children } = this.props ,
      { loaded } = this.state ;

    return (
      <LazyLoad height= {height} offset= { 150 } >
        <Transition in = {loaded} timeout= {duration} >
          {state =>
            <div style= { { ...defaultStyle , ...transitionStyles [state] } } >
              {children( this.onLoad ) }
            </div> }
        </Transition>
      </LazyLoad>
    ) ;
  }
}
FadeIn.propTypes = {
  height: PropTypes.number ,
  children: PropTypes.func ,
} ;

FadeIn keeps local loaded state to keep track of what to show. false means "stay transparent," true means "fade to full opacity."

It uses react-lazyload's LazyLoad component to handle the lazy loading part, and Transition from react-transition-group to drive the CSS transition for fading in. This is the part that's changed a lot since the official fadein lazyload example.

Using the children render function approach, you can ask FadeIn to render anything you want. It gets wrapped in a div that handles the fade effect.

All you have to do is trigger the onLoad callback once your content is ready. When your image is done loading for example.

You render <FadeIn>, give it a height so things don't jump around, and pass a children function that takes an onLoad callback. When you're ready to trigger the transition, you call onLoad and FadeIn does its thing.

Did you know onLoad was a built-in DOM callback that all browsers support? I had no idea.

onLoad is important because without it the FadeIn transition might end before the image has even come down the pipe. That's the issue I was facing at first when I livecoded this.

Recommendations?

I want to opensource this. I know it's simple, but it could save people like an hour of their time. That's worth it, right?

What else does it need to do? What should I name it? Would you use it?

Shout at me on Twitter.

You should follow me on twitter, here.

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