GoogleChromeLabs/react-adaptive-hooks
React Adaptive Hooks
react-adaptive-hooks is a collection of React hooks and wrappers designed to interface with browser APIs for detecting hardware, media, and network capabilities. It synchronizes low-level browser device signals with the React component lifecycle to drive adaptive user interfaces.
The project provides tools to monitor hardware resources, including system memory estimation and CPU logical core detection, to scale computational intensity. It includes capabilities for verifying native support for specific video and image decoding formats and monitoring network connection types and data saver preferences.
These utilities enable the adaptation of media delivery, frontend resource quality, and application complexity based on real-time device and network constraints.
Features
- Browser API Hooks - Provides React hooks that wrap native browser APIs for device and network capability detection.
- Device Capability Hooks - Provides a collection of React hooks to detect hardware constraints and network conditions for building adaptive user interfaces.
- Adaptive Media Delivery - Checks browser and hardware support for specific video or image formats to ensure efficient media playback.
- Browser Media Capability Probes - Uses browser decoding tests to verify support for specific video and image formats on the current hardware.
- Network Condition Monitors - Provides hooks for monitoring real-time network status, connection types, and data-saver preferences.
- Hardware-Based Performance Scaling - Uses React hooks to scale computational intensity and animation complexity based on available CPU cores and system RAM.
- Device-Aware Frontend Optimization - Adjusts application features and resource quality based on the hardware and memory capabilities of the device.
- Hardware Capabilities Detection - Implements APIs for detecting physical hardware properties like CPU cores and RAM to optimize performance.
- Adaptive Environment Synchronization - Provides mechanisms to synchronize UI updates with real-time changes in browser device signals and environment constraints.
- Network-Adaptive Asset Loading - Adjusts the intensity and timing of resource fetching based on network quality and user preferences.
- React Hardware Resource Monitors - Provides a set of tools for querying available system RAM and CPU logical cores within a React application.
- Decoding Efficiency Evaluation - Determines if specific media types can be decoded efficiently by checking hardware and browser constraints.
- Native Format Verification - Verifies device-specific support to identify which video or image formats play natively on the system.
- Data Saver Detection - Checks if the user has enabled data saver settings to avoid loading high-bandwidth resources.
- Network Connection Detectors - Retrieves the current network connection type as an enumeration to adapt the user experience.
- CPU Core Detection - Identifies the number of logical CPU cores to scale the intensity of computational tasks.
- Browser API Wrappers - Provides functional wrappers that simplify interaction with standard browser APIs for media capability verification.
- Browser Memory Estimators - Estimates available system RAM to disable memory-intensive features or animations on low-end devices.
