Yes, this is a React component, but regardless if you care about that part or not, the “ideal image component” part could be of interest. There is a lot to consider with how we put images on web pages these days. This deals with:

  • Placeholder space (and then flexible responsive styles after loading)
  • Low-quality placeholder images
  • Responsive images syntax (srcset)
  • Image formats (e.g. using WebP when you can)
  • Click-to-load on bad network connections
  • Better UX for loading errors, with translatable copy

That’s not even all of it. So much to think about with poor little <img>. I enjoyed Alejandro Sanchez’s response:

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