# DylanVann/react-native-fast-image

🚩 FastImage, performant React Native image component.

Repository: https://github.com/DylanVann/react-native-fast-image
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-native-fast-image
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react-native, image, priority, sdwebimage, glide, image-cache, cocoapod, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2024-06-14T09:29:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3429, "days_push": 810, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8423, forks 1525 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:21.113969+00:00)

## What it is
FastImage is a performant drop-in replacement for React Native's built-in Image component that aggressively caches remote images via SDWebImage on iOS and Glide on Android. It adds features the stock component lacks, such as loading priority, preloading, authorization headers, and reliable caching that eliminates flickering.

## Use cases
- stop image flickering in react native flatlists
- cache remote images in a react native app
- load images faster on android and ios
- preload images before navigating to a screen
- load images that require authorization headers
- prioritize which images load first
- display gifs in react native
- replace react native Image component with a faster one

## When to choose
- you are building a React Native 0.60+ app that displays many remote images
- the built-in Image component causes flickering, cache misses, or slow cache loads
- you need image preloading or loading priority for scrollable lists
- you must fetch images behind authenticated endpoints
- you want one component that works consistently on iOS and Android

## When to avoid
- your project is not React Native (e.g., plain web, Flutter, or native iOS/Android)
- you only show local/bundled images and don't need remote caching
- you use Expo Go without native module support, since this library requires native code
- you are stuck on React Native older than 0.60 with no autolinking
- your Android app already configures a custom AppGlideModule and you cannot reconcile Glide setup

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, caching
- domain: mobile-development, frontend
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react-native, image-loading, image-cache, sdwebimage, glide, gif-support, image-preloading, priority-loading, mobile-ui, native-modules, mobile, ios, android, nodejs

## Member repositories
- DylanVann/react-native-fast-image (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:21.113969+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:27:16.215876+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/DylanVann/react-native-fast-image (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:21.113969+00:00, sha f66e2bdf95da)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-native-fast-image (fetched 2026-08-29T08:27:26.001840+00:00, sha 401cf7e410a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.