The latest articles on DEV Community by Dominic Rockson (@psrockstar098). https://dev.to/psrockstar098 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4151129%2F793e0f91-86d3-4069-b8fa-35d37a5ae9ff.jpg https://dev.to/psrockstar098 en Dominic Rockson Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:48:39 +0000 https://dev.to/psrockstar098/i-built-a-react-link-component-that-prefetches-before-you-click-28bj https://dev.to/psrockstar098/i-built-a-react-link-component-that-prefetches-before-you-click-28bj <p>Your app's navigation is only as fast as your Link component. The default one just... navigates. I wanted more, so I built rockzy-link.</p> <h2> What it does </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Smart prefetching</strong> — analyzes and preloads routes users are likely to visit next, instead of prefetching everything and wasting bandwidth</li> <li> <strong>Route caching</strong> — back/forward navigation feels instant</li> <li> <strong>Scroll restoration</strong> — users land where they expect</li> <li> <strong>Offline hooks</strong> — hooks so your UI degrades gracefully when the network drops</li> <li> <strong>Navigation snapshots</strong> — capture and restore navigation state</li> <li> <strong>Accessibility</strong> — proper semantics out of the box</li> </ul> <h2> Usage </h2> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>npm i rockzy-link </code></pre> </div> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight jsx"><code><span class="k">import</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">Link</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="dl">'</span><span class="s1">rockzy-link</span><span class="dl">'</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="c1">// Drop-in replacement — prefetching just works</span> <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nc">Link</span> <span class="na">href</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"/dashboard"</span> <span class="na">prefetch</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>Dashboard<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nc">Link</span><span class="p">&gt;</span> </code></pre> </div> <h2> Why I built it </h2> <p>I'm a developer from Liberia working mostly in Zig and JavaScript. I kept hitting the same wall: client-side navigation that felt sluggish no matter how optimized the pages were. The bottleneck was the Link itself. So I fixed it at the source.</p> <p>It's MIT licensed and I'd genuinely love feedback — try it, break it, tell me what's missing.</p> <p>npm: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/rockzy-link" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.npmjs.com/package/rockzy-link</a><br> GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/psrockstar098/rockzy-link" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/psrockstar098/rockzy-link</a></p> react javascript webdev opensource