Vue Image Zoomer

Lightweight responsive image zoom component for Vue.js 3 & 2, that also works on touch devices. Perfect for zooming on product images on an ecommerce website. For Vue 2 please check out the legacy version https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-image-zoomer/v/legacy.

Works on hover(default) or click on mouse devices, tap to zoom on touch screens.

Performance and pageload is important, zoom images do not load until needed, so only the regular sized images load on pageload. Webp format also available with jpg/png backwards compatabilty for browsers that do not yet support webp. There is also an option to lazyload the regular image and breakpoints to have different res images on different screen sizes.

Zoom source is not needed but recommended for a sharper zoom, if there is no zoom image selected then the regular image will be zoomed by 2 by default.

Demo: https://samueljon.es/vue-image-zoomer

Installation

npm i vue-image-zoomer

Usage:

//global
import { createApp } from 'vue';
import App from './App.vue'
import VueImageZoomer from 'vue-image-zoomer'
import 'vue-image-zoomer/dist/style.css';

const app = createApp(App);

app.use(VueImageZoomer);

app.mount('#app');

//in component
import { VueImageZoomer } from 'vue-image-zoomer'
import 'vue-image-zoomer/dist/style.css';

export default {
  name: 'App',
  components: {
    VueImageZoomer
  }
}

Also comes with a UMD version and css file if not using a module compiler in the dist folder.

Usage examples

<!-- Example without zoom image -->
<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.jpg" />

<!-- jpg example -->
<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.jpg" 
	zoom="path-to-zoom.jpg" />

<!-- png example -->
<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.png" 
	zoom="path-to-zoom.png" />

<!-- webp example -->
<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.jpg" 
	regular-webp="path-to-regular.webp"
	zoom="path-to-zoom.jpg"
	zoom-webp="path-to-zoom.webp" />

Placeholder

Placeholder slot, helps with CLS improvements & page jumping.

<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.jpg" 
	zoom="path-to-zoom.jpg">
	<img src="path-to-low-res-placeholder.jpg" />
</vue-image-zoomer>

Breakpoints

This option is an array of objects that allows you to have different images on different screen sizes. For example to load a higher res image on desktop.

Order of the objects must start from highest min width, e.g. in the example below we start with the 1200 min width then 992. This is the min width of the browser in pixels when that breakpoint will show.

Like without breakpoints, if using breakpoints, the zoom parameters aren't required but recommended for a higher quality zoom image, width and regular parameters are required. Addition parameters to the array are 'regularWebp' and 'zoomWebp' if using webp images(will be defaulted to standard if browser does not support webp).

<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.jpg" 
	zoom="path-to-zoom.jpg"
	:breakpoints="[
		{
			width: 1200,
			regular: 'path-to-regular-1200.jpg',
			zoom: 'path-to-zoom-1200.jpg'
		},
		{
			width: 992,
			regular: 'path-to-regular-992.jpg',
			zoom: 'path-to-zoom-992.jpg'
		}						
	]" />

<!-- webp example -->
<vue-image-zoomer 
	regular="path-to-regular.jpg" 
	regular-webp="path-to-regular.webp" 
	zoom="path-to-zoom.jpg"
	zoom-webp="path-to-zoom.webp" 
	:breakpoints="[
		{
			width: 1200,
			regular: 'path-to-regular-1200.jpg',
			regularWebp: 'path-to-regular-1200.webp',
			zoom: 'path-to-zoom-1200.jpg'
			zoomWebp: 'path-to-zoom-1200.webp'
		},
		{
			width: 992,
			regular: 'path-to-regular-992.jpg',
			regularWebp: 'path-to-regular-992.webp',
			zoom: 'path-to-zoom-992.jpg'
			zoomWebp: 'path-to-zoom-992.webp'
		}						
	]" />

All Options

The following props can be added to the html above

Property	Type	Default	Description
alt	String		Alt tag for regular image
breakpoints	Array		Array of objects that allows you to have different images on different screen sizes. Example is shown above, width and regular parameters are needed when using this, adition optional parameters are; regularWebp, zoom, zoomWebp
close-pos	String	top-left	Position of the close button on mobile: top-left, top-right, top-center, bottom-left, bottom-right, bottom-center
click-zoom	Boolean	false	Click to zoom instead of hover to zoom which is default
click-message	String	⚲ Click to zoom	To change the message that appears on top of the image before you zoom when click-zoom is set to true, accepts html
hover-message	String	⚲ Hover to zoom	To change the message that appears on top of the image before you hover to zoom, accepts html
img-class	String		Class for regular image, e.g. 'img-fluid' in bootstrap
img-height	Number		img height attribute for improved lighthouse performance
img-width	Number		img width attribute for improved lighthouse performance
lazyload	Boolean	false	To lazyload the regular image, uses HTML loading attribute
message-pos	String	bottom	Position of the message that appears on top of the image before you zoom: top, bottom
regular	String		Required Path to the regular image source
regular-webp	String		Path to the regular webp image source, regular option will default as backup if browser doesn't support webp
right-click	Boolean	true	Set to false to disable right click on images (stop easy image stealing)
show-message	Boolean	true	Set to false to hide zoom message on non-touch devices
show-message-touch	Boolean	true	Set to false to hide zoom message on touch devices
tap-to-close	Boolean	false	Set to true to tap to close zoom on mobile, instead of the close button
touch-message	String	⚲ Tap to zoom	To change the message that appears on top of the image before you tap to zoom on a touch screen, accepts html
touch-zoom-pos	Array	[0.5, 0.5]	X & Y position from top left of where the zoom starts on touch devices e.g. [0.5, 0.5] the default, is center, [0, 0] is top left. Max value is 1, min value is 0.
zoom	String	Regular image	Recommended Path to the zoom image source. If zoom not selected then will use the regular image times by 2.
zoom-amount	Number		Amount you want the zoom image to zoom by e.g. '2' would be 2 times as large as the regular image's dom size. Zoom is defaulted to be the size of the zoom image source, if there is not zoom image source then default zoom is 2
zoom-webp	String		Path to the zoom webp image source, zoom option will default as backup if browser doesn't support webp. zoom-webp will be regular-webp image if nothing is selected for zoom-webp, but there's a regular-webp image

Events

The events that the component emits.

Event	Description
regular-loaded	Fires when the regular image has loaded on page
off-zoom	Fires when you are not zooming
on-zoom	Fires when you are zooming
zoom-loaded	Fires when the zoom image has loaded
zoom-loading	Fires when the zoom image is loading

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License