mrousavy/react-native-blurhash

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2241 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-10-21

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A React Native library that renders BlurHash strings as colorful blurred image placeholders while content loads. It provides a native component (Swift/Kotlin) for decoding BlurHash strings and encoding images into BlurHash format.

Use cases

• show blurred image placeholders while images load in a React Native app
• encode images to blurhash strings on the client
• decode blurhash strings into placeholder images
• replace grey loading boxes with colorful previews in image feeds
• store compact image placeholders in JSON payloads
• improve perceived loading performance in social media feeds

When to choose

• you build React Native apps and want smooth image loading placeholders
• you want a native, performant blurhash implementation for iOS and Android
• your backend already stores blurhash strings alongside image URLs

When to avoid

• you use Expo Go, since the library requires custom native code
• your app is not React Native (use a platform-specific blurhash library instead)
• you need full-resolution image processing rather than compact placeholders

Facets

library · maturity stable

ui-components image-processing animation mobile-development frontend image-processing web-development cross-platform blurhash react-native image-placeholder loading-state native-module progressive-loading ios android mobile

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