flipbook-vue

flipbook-vue is a Vue component that displays images in 3D page flip effect.

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Installation

Install as a module.

npm i -S flipbook-vue

or

yarn add flipbook-vue

Or include in html.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/flipbook-vue"></script>

Usage

<template>
  <flipbook class="flipbook" :pages="['array', 'of', 'image', 'URLs']"></flipbook>
</template>

<style>
.flipbook .viewport {
  width: 90vw;
  height: 90vh;
}
</style>

If installed as a module,

<script>
import Flipbook from 'flipbook-vue'
export default {
  components: { Flipbook }
}
</script>

If you would like to build from .vue directly (including CoffeeScript transpile, etc),

import Flipbook from 'flipbook-vue/sfc'

or

import Flipbook from 'flipbook-vue/src/Flipbook.vue'

Props

pages

Array of image URLs. Required.
All images should have the same aspect ratio.

If the first element is null, the next element is displayed alone (as the cover page).

All other props are optional.

pagesHiRes

Array of high resolution version of image URLs.
They are used when zoomed.

flipDuration

Duration of page flipping animation in milliseconds.
Defaults to 1000.

zoomDuration

Duration of zoom in/out animation in milliseconds.
Defaults to 500.

zooms

Array of possible magnifications.
Defaults to [1, 2, 4].

ambient

Intensity of ambient light in 0 to 1.
Smaller value gives more shades.
Defaults to 0.4.

gloss

Intensity of specular light in 0 to 1.
Higher value gives more gloss.
Defaults to 0.6.

perspective

Z-axis distance in pixel between the screen and the viewer.
Higher value gives less effect.
Defaults to 2400.

nPolygons

How many rectangles a single page is horizontally splitted into.
Higher value gives higher quality rendering in exchange for performance.
Defaults to 10.

Slot props

This component exposes some properties and methods as slot properties.
Example usage:

<flipbook :pages="pages" v-slot="flipbook">
  <button @click="flipbook.flipLeft">Previous Page</button>
  <button @click="flipbook.flipRight">Next Page</button>
</flipbook>

For more practical usage, refer to src/App.vue (the demo page source).

canFlipLeft

True if it can flip to previous page.

canFlipRight

True if it can flip to next page.

canZoomIn

True if it can zoom in.

canZoomOut

True if it can zoom out.

flipLeft()

Method to flip to previous page.

flipRight()

Method to flip to next page.

zoomIn()

Method to zoom in.

zoomOut()

Method to zoom out.

CSS API

You may need to specify the size of view port in your style sheet, directly to
<flipbook> element, or to .viewport sub-element of flipbook.

If the size is horizontally long, it displays two pages spread, suitable for desktop browsers.
If it's vertically long, it displays single pages, suitable for smartphones.

There are some internal classes.

.viewport

An <div> element that contains everything but <slot>.
<slot> is placed above .viewport.

.bounding-box

Approximate bounding box of the displayed images.
Suitable to give box-shadow.

Browser support

Supports modern browsers and IE 11.

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