Yeah regarding no filesystem, not sure if it is dumb but I was using Dexie(IndexedDB wrapper,) to store images as base64 strings. It works but what can suck is the time to turn it back to an image to be displayed. Which using small thumbnails it's not bad but without pagination(seems obvious you should) but it's so much data it throws a chromium-level error so idk
... But was faster to reach MVP than RN for me with my skills. There was an offline-first requirement so that's why the images are stored that way but it has a remote REST API for sync and S3 for storing the large images.
thanks for the idea, I will try it because it looks like BLOB is smaller than base64 and looks like maybe faster to render too due to not having to decode/encode. It is unfortunate I was not aware of this sooner with regard to the "data format juggling" but still...
I'm having an issue where there's too much data being loaded/pulled from Indexed DB so I have to do stuff like pagination, but this will help no doubt.
