A Vue component to display an image gallery lightbox

A simple image lightbox component for Vuejs

vue-image-lightbox

A simple image lightbox component for Vuejs
NPM Package

I use CSS style from react-images

Development (NPM / Yarn)

npm run dev
yarn dev

Install

NPM / Yarn

Install the package:

npm install vue-image-lightbox vue-lazyload
yarn add vue-image-lightbox vue-lazyload

Then import it in your project At your entry point (main.js normally)

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueLazyLoad from 'vue-lazyload'
...
Vue.use(VueLazyLoad)

and use the lightbox:

import LightBox from 'vue-image-lightbox'

export default {
  components: {
    LightBox,
  },
}

Browser global

<script src="path/to/vue.js"></script>
<script src="path/to/dist/vue-image-lightbox.js"></script>

Usage

You can simply view App.vue to see how to use vue-image-lightbox

Import CSS style

require('vue-image-lightbox/dist/vue-image-lightbox.min.css')
// Use only when you are using Webpack

How to use:

<LightBox :images="images"></LightBox>

images has the structure:

[
  {
    thumb: 'http://example.com/thumb.jpg',
    src: 'http://example.com/image.jpg',
    caption: 'caption to display. receive <html> <b>tag</b>', // Optional
    srcset: '...' // Optional for displaying responsive images
  }
]

Options

Properties

name	type	default	description
images	Array	required	Image array to display
showLightBox	Boolean	true	Whether to show lightbox or not at the beginning
startAt	Number	0	Index of the image that you want to start at
nThumbs	Number	7	Number of thumbnail images
showThumbs	Boolean	true	Whether to show thumbnails or not
autoPlay	Boolean	false	Move to next image automatically
autoPlayTime	Number	3000 (ms)	Time to stop at an image before move on to next image
siteLoading		null	default image when your image is error or loading
showCaption	Boolean	false	Whether to show caption or not
disableScroll	Boolean	true	set to `true` to avoid scrolling views behind lightbox
lengthToLoadMore	Number	0	Minimum length unto end to emit load more event
closeText	String	Close (Esc)	Text for the close button
previousText	String	Previous	Text for the previous image button
nextText	String	Next	Text for the next image button
previousThumbText	String	Previous	Text for the previous thumb image button
nextThumbText	String	Next	Text for the next thumb image button

Methods

name	arguments	description
nextImage	()	Move to next image
previousImage	()	Move to previous image
closeLightBox	()	Close lightbox
showImage	(index)	Show the image at index

Slots

close

The content of the close button.

footer

The content of the footer under the image.

slot-scopes

name	type	description
current	integer	Number of the current image displayed
total	integer	Numbers of the images

The previous button on the main image.

The next button on the main image.

previousThumb

The previous button on the thumbs list.

nextThumb

The next button on the thumbs list.

Events

onOpened(value): true to emit when the lightbox is opened and false when it is closed.
onLastIndex: Emit when the current image is the last one of the list.
onFirstIndex: Emit when the current image is the first one of the list.
onStartIndex: Emit when the current image is at the startAt index (specified in the properties).
onLoad: Emit when there are lengthToLoadMore images left in the array (specified in the properties). For example, if lengthToLoadMore = 2 and there are 7 images in your array, when you reach index 4 (which means there are 2 images left which are not discovered yet), this event will be emitted. After that, if the image array are updated and there are totally 15 images, the event will be emitted at index 12.