Strong return type when passing a bare Promise; return promise from preload

[benwest]

Hi! Very good and wonderful library, I made some changes to suit my project, maybe they're helpful?

• Return type is now inferred when passing a bare Promise
• preload now returns the cached Promise, so you can know when preloading is done

I would love to see the second change in particular propagate out to @react-three/fiber's useLoader, drei's useTexture etc! It allows more strategic preloading of assets (wait for high-priority assets to load before loading others).

This works in my project but I definitely haven't tested it exhaustively.

[vicimpa]

Approve this PR please. I need this futures.

[joshuaellis]

Hey thanks for the contribution, you've changed a lot just to make return a stronger type – can you elaborate on why you've made the much larger changes?

[benwest]

no, i barely remember doing this! 🙃