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Implement image cropping function using Vue.js

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Implement image cropping function using Vue.js

Have you written a web application that accepts user-uploaded images, only to later realize that users keep providing images of all shapes and sizes that ruin your site's theme? Working with images on the web can easily become a pain—unless, of course, you use the right tools.

Implement image cropping function using Vue.js

In this tutorial, we'll explore how to use JavaScript libraries to manipulate images in the browser, prepare them for storage on the server, and use them in web programs. We'll do this using Vue.js instead of native JavaScript.

To see what this article is trying to accomplish, please look at the picture above. The original image is on the left and the new image preview is on the right. We can move and resize the crop box and the preview image will change accordingly. Users can download preview images as needed.

We will use a library called Cropper.js to do the heavy lifting.

Create a new Vue.js project with image cropping dependencies

The first step is to create a new project and install the necessary dependencies. It is assumed that you have Vue CLI installed and configured.

Execute the following command at the command line:

vue create cropper-project
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When prompted, select the default option. This will be a simple project, so don't worry about routing and stuff.

Navigate to the new project and do the following:

npm install cropperjs --save
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The above command will install Cropper.js into our project. It's easy to use a CDN, but since we're using a framework that leverages webpack, the npm route makes the most sense.

Although our dependencies are installed, there is one more thing that needs to be done. Because I'm using npm, I don't include CSS information - only JavaScript information. We need to include CSS information locally or through a CDN. This article uses CDN.

Open your project's public/index.html and include the following HTML tags:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="icon" href="<%= BASE_URL %>favicon.ico">
<title>image-cropping</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cropperjs/1.5.1/cropper.min.css">
</head>
<body>
    <noscript>
        <strong>
        We&#39;re sorry but image-cropping doesn&#39;t work properly without JavaScript enabled. 
        Please enable it to continue.
        </strong>
    </noscript>
    <div id="app"></div>
    <!-- built files will be auto injected -->
</body>
</html>
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Note that in the <head> tag, We have included the cropper.min.css file. Again, it doesn't matter how you get the CSS information as long as you get the file. Without the CSS information, our image wouldn't have the fancy cropping box.

Crop images using JavaScript in a Vue.js project

Now the project should be almost configured and ready to crop images on the web. To keep our project tidy, we'll create a new Vue.js component to handle all of our image processing.

Create the src/components/ImageCropper.vue file in your project and include the following boilerplate code:

<template>
    <div>
        <div class="img-container">
            <img ref="image" :src="src" crossorigin>
        </div>
        <img :src="destination" class="img-preview">
    </div>
</template>

<script>
    import Cropper from "cropperjs";
    export default {
        name: "ImageCropper",
        data() {
            return {
                cropper: {},
                destination: {},
                image: {}
            }
        },
        props: {
            src: String
        },
        mounted() { }
    }
</script>

<style scoped>
    .img-container {
        width: 640px;
        height: 480px;
        float: left;
    }
    .img-preview {
        width: 200px;
        height: 200px;
        float: left;
        margin-left: 10px;
    }
</style>
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For this example, <style># The information in the ## tag is not important, it just cleans up the page and doesn't get any real effect from the library.

Note the

src and destination variables that appear in the