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<div class="deck" data-images='["http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/1","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/2","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/3","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/4","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/5","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/6","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/7","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/8","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/9","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/city/10","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/1","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/2","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/3","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/4","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/5","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/6","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/7","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/8","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/9","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/fashion/10","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/1","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/2","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/3","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/4","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/5","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/6","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/7","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/8","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/9","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/technics/10"]'>30 images</div>
<div class="deck" data-images='["http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/sports/1","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/sports/2","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/sports/3"]'>3 images</div>
<div class="deck" data-images='["http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/1","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/2","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/3","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/4","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/5","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/6","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/7","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/8","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/9","http://lorempixel.com/1920/1920/cats/10"]'>10 images</div>

<h1>Demo: dynamically prefetching images from image decks in parallel.</h1>

<p>Each “deck” has its own list of images, stored in a data attribute (here <code>data-images</code>). The idea is to prefetch the images, and be able to know on a deck basis when it's done. At this point, we can execute any piece of code: adding a class, logging something, launching an image sequence, whatever.</p>

<p>The difficulty is that <strong>we don't want to preload decks in sequence but in parallel</strong>. In other words, we don't want to preload all images from first deck, then all images from second deck, and so on...</p>

<p>Indeed, loading decks in sequence is not ideal because in the scenario where the first deck has a ton of images (here <code>30</code>), and the second one has very few of them (here <code>3</code>), then the second deck would have to wait until the first deck is fully loaded to proceed (whatever code).</p> 

<p>So the idea is to load the first image of all decks, then the second image of all decks, then the third image of all decks and so on until all decks are fully loaded. When a deck is loaded, it emits an event with the id of the deck, which can be listened to.</p>

              
            
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CSS

              
                .deck {
  margin: 10px;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  padding: 10px;
  background: tomato;
  float: left;
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 100px;
}

.deck.loaded {
  background: lightgreen;
}

body {
  padding: 20px;
  font-size: 115%;
  line-height: 1.45;
}

h1 {
  font-size: 1em;
  clear: both;
}

code {
  color: darkblue;
}
              
            
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JS

              
                (function (global) {

  'use strict';

  function defer() {
    var resolve, reject, promise = new Promise(function (a, b) {
      resolve = a;
      reject = b;
    });

    return {
      resolve: resolve,
      reject: reject,
      promise: promise
    };
  }

  /**
   * Image preloader
   * @param {Object} options
   */
  var ImagePreloader = function (options) {
    this.options = options || {};
    this.options.parallel = this.options.parallel || false;
    this.items = [];
    this.max = 0;
  };

  /**
   * The `queue` methods is intended to add an array (a deck) of images to the
   * queue. It does not preload the images though; only adds them to the queue.
   * @param  {Array} array - Array of images to add the queue
   * @return {Promise}
   */
  ImagePreloader.prototype.queue = function (array) {
    if (!Array.isArray(array)) {
      array = [array];
    }

    if (array.length > this.max) {
      this.max = array.length;
    }
    
    var deferred = defer();

    this.items.push({
      collection: array,
      deferred: deferred
    });
    
    return deferred.promise;
  };

  /**
   * The `preloadImage` preloads the image resource living at `path` and returns
   * a promise that resolves when the image is successfully loaded by the 
   * browser or if there is an error. Beware, the promise is not rejected in 
   * case the image cannot be loaded; it gets resolved nevertheless.
   * @param  {String} path - Image url
   * @return {Promise}
   */
  ImagePreloader.prototype.preloadImage = function (path) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
      var image = new Image();
      image.onload = resolve;
      image.onerror = resolve;
      image.src = path;
    });
  };

  /**
   * The `preload` method preloads the whole queue of decks added through the
   * `queue` method. It returns a promise that gets resolved when all decks have
   * been fully loaded.
   * The decks are loaded either sequencially (one after the other) or in
   * parallel, depending on the `parallel` options.
   * @return {Promise}
   */
  ImagePreloader.prototype.preload = function () {
    var deck, decks = [];

    if (this.options.parallel) {

      for (var i = 0; i < this.max; i++) {
        this.items.forEach(function (item) {
          if (typeof item.collection[i] !== 'undefined') {
            item.collection[i] = this.preloadImage(item.collection[i]);
          }
        }, this);
      }

    } else {

      this.items.forEach(function (item) {
        item.collection = item.collection.map(this.preloadImage);
      }, this);

    }

    this.items.forEach(function (item) {
      deck = Promise.all(item.collection)
        .then(item.deferred.resolve.bind(item.deferred))
        .catch(console.log.bind(console));

      decks.push(deck);
    });

    return Promise.all(decks);
  };

  global.ImagePreloader = ImagePreloader;

}(window));

function Deck(node, preloader, index) {
    var data = JSON.parse(node.getAttribute('data-images'));

    preloader.queue(data)
        .then(function () {
          console.log('Deck ' + index + ' loaded.');
          node.classList.add('loaded');
        })
    .catch(console.error.bind(console));
}

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
var ip = new ImagePreloader({
  parallel: false
});
  var decks = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('.deck'));
  
  decks.forEach(function (deck, index) {
    new Deck(deck, ip, index);
  });

  ip.preload()
    .then(function () {
      console.log('All decks loaded.');
    });
});
              
            
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