@lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue

Contents

• Introduction
  • What is dotLottie?
• Installation
• Usage
• Live Examples
• APIs
  • DotLottieVue Props
  • Listening to Events
• Development
  • Setup
  • Dev
  • Build

Introduction

A Vue library for rendering lottie and dotLottie animations in the browser.

What is dotLottie?

dotLottie is an open-source file format that aggregates one or more Lottie files and their associated resources into a single file. They are ZIP archives compressed with the Deflate compression method and carry the file extension of ".lottie".

Learn more about dotLottie.

Installation

1npm install @lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue

Usage

1<script setup>
2import { DotLottieVue } from '@lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue'
3</script>
4
5<template>
6  <DotLottieVue style="height: 500px; width: 500px" autoplay loop src="https://path-to-lottie.lottie" />
7</template>

Live Examples

• Basic Example

APIs

DotLottieVue Props

Property name	Type	Required	Default	Description
autoplay	boolean		false	Auto-starts the animation on load.
loop	boolean		false	Determines if the animation should loop.
src	string		undefined	URL to the animation data (.json or .lottie).
speed	number		1	Animation playback speed. 1 is regular speed.
data	string | ArrayBuffer		undefined	Animation data provided either as a Lottie JSON string or as an ArrayBuffer for .lottie animations.
mode	string		"forward"	Animation play mode. Accepts "forward", "reverse", "bounce", "reverse-bounce".
backgroundColor	string		undefined	Background color of the canvas. Accepts 6-digit or 8-digit hex color string (e.g., "#000000", "#000000FF"),
segment	[number, number]		[0, totalFrames - 1]	Animation segment. Accepts an array of two numbers, where the first number is the start frame and the second number is the end frame.
renderConfig	RenderConfig		{}	Configuration for rendering the animation.
useFrameInterpolation	boolean		false	Determines if the animation should update on subframes. If set to false, the original AE frame rate will be maintained. If set to true, it will refresh at each requestAnimationFrame, including intermediate values. The default setting is true.
marker	string		undefined	Sets a specific marker to be played
autoResizeCanvas	boolean		true	Enable or disable auto resize of canvas
playOnHover	boolean		false	When enabled it plays animation only on hover
animationId	string		undefined	Plays specific animation within .lottie
themeId	string		undefined	Loads a specific theme within .lottie
themeData	string		undefined	Load theme data.

RenderConfig

The renderConfig object accepts the following properties:

Property name	Type	Required	Default	Description
devicePixelRatio	number		window.devicePixelRatio | 1	The device pixel ratio.

Listening to Events

1<script setup>
2import { onMounted, ref, watch } from 'vue';
3import { DotLottieVue } from '@lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue'
4const playerRef = ref(null);
5
6onMounted(() => {
7  if (playerRef.value) {
8    const dotLottie = playerRef.value.getDotLottieInstance();
9    dotLottie.addEventListener('pause', () => {
10      console.log('paused')
11    });
12    dotLottie.addEventListener('frame', ({ currentFrame }) => {
13      console.log('Frame:', currentFrame)
14    });
15  }
16})
17</script>
18
19<template>
20  <DotLottieVue autoplay loop ref="playerRef" src="path-to-lottie.lottie" />
21</template>

Refer to dotlottie-web Events sections to know more about all available events.

Development

Setup

1pnpm install

Dev

1pnpm dev

Build

1pnpm build