vue-image-chooser

This is vue plugin with simple component for choosing image. It supports easy implementation for image upload to the backend.

Installation

npm i vue-image-chooser --save

Registring plugin:

import VueImageChooser from 'vue-image-chooser'

Vue.use(VueImageChooser)

This will make vue-image-chooser component globaly available. Bellow is example how to use it with axios library

<div class="MyContent">
  <h1>Click on chooser to choose image</h1>
  <div style="width:400px;margin: 0 auto">
    <vue-image-chooser name="image-chooser" @change="uploadFile" :progress="progress" :error="error"/>
  </div>
</div>

export default {
  data() {
    return {
      progress: null,
      error: null,
    }
  },
  methods: {
    uploadFile(file) {
      this.progress = 0;
      let formData = new FormData();
      formData.append('image', file);
      var config = {
        onUploadProgress: progressEvent => {
          var percentCompleted = Math.round(
            (progressEvent.loaded * 100) / progressEvent.total
          )
          this.progress = percentCompleted
        }
      }
      try {
        const { data } = await axios.post(
          '/api/route/to/upload/image',
          formData,
          config
        )
      } catch (e) {
        this.error = 'Error has occured'
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage

The component takes five props:

• name (String): Required prop, must be unique (you can consider it like id)
• progress (Number): Number between 0-100. If it is null or 100 component consider uploading process finished.
• error (String): Error message in case that server responded with error
• height (String): Default is 350px
• displayName (String): Default is Add Photo - text that appears below the camera image

The component emits change event with single file as data, when it recieve an image, after it can be uploaded as described above)

Example:

https://schumskie.github.io/vue-image-chooser/

NOTE:

Component by default has width of 100%. Because of that it should put in holder of desired width.