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How to use image upload package in your Vue app

A simple and customisable image upload component for Vue 3.x

Screenshots

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Features

  • Attach and upload more than one image
  • Update image and attachments
  • Customize image height and width
  • Customize image upload title
  • Customize image border radius using Bootstrap classes
  • Customize default image before new image attachment

Demo

https://vue-image-upload.netlify.app/

Installation

Install via NPM

  npm i image-upload-vue
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or include into dependencies section of package.json

  npm install --save image-upload-vue
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To install globally

  import ImageUploadVue from 'image-upload-vue'
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  Vue.use(ImageUploadVue)
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or to install in individual components

    import 'ImageUpload' from 'image-upload-vue'
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Getting Started

Single Upload

    <image-upload action="create"
        :image_style="{
            border: 'rounded-circle',
            height: '100',
            width: '100'
        }"
    />
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Multi Upload

    <image-upload :upload_type="'multi'" action="edit" :urls="images"
        :image_style="{
            height: '100',
            width: '100'
        }"
    />
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The urls consists of an array of images which can be data.

    data(){
        return{
            images: [
                require("@/assets/images/foobar.png"),
                "https://github.com/xxxxxx/xxxxx/xxxx/xxxxx/xxxxx/xxxx/foobar.png?raw=true"
            ]
        }
    },
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Docs

The following props can be passed to the component:

Prop Description Type Default
action This lets the vue-image-upload know the action to be performed: create or edit String create
title This is the text of the file input button String Choose image
image_style These are image style properties: border-radius, height, width Object height = 160, width = 160
url The url / file location of the image to be loaded for single upload String
urls The url / file location of the image to be loaded for multi upload Array
upload type If set to multi, multiple image can be created and edited String single
default The deafult image of the component before attachment String default.png

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