10 Best Vue Image Croppers 2023
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We go over the top 10 best Vue Image Croppers for 2023.
What Is An Image Cropper?
An image cropper enables users to resize, move, and crop (and sometimes rotate) an area of an image before uploading to the server.
Usually image croppers are used to crop and upload user images for profile pictures (avatars), and social media header photos.
A Vue Image Cropper is an image cropper intended to be used with the Vue JavaScript Framework.
Let's go over the list!
The 10 Best Vue Image Croppers
Vue Image Crop Upload
Vue Image Crop Upload crops and uploads images, it's a nice way to crop circular images with Vue.
This project was last updated 3 years ago. Not compatible with Vue 3.
Vue Avatar Crop
A small Vue plugin to do profile picture cropping and uploading.
<template>
<div>
<AvatarCrop
field="img"
:width="256"
:height="256"
url="/upload"
></AvatarCrop>
</div>
</template>Unfortunately Vue Avatar crop hasn't been updated since 2017. Not compatible with Vue 3.
Pintura Image Editor
A powerful image editor, easy to install, can be adjusted to only enable the crop functionality by setting the utils to ['crop'].
Pintura Image Editor is compatible with Vue 2 or Vue 3, easy to integrate in your project with the @pqina/vue-pintura adapter component, see Pintura Vue installation guide for short example and live demo.
This is a well maintained commercial product.
Vue Instagram Cropper
Vue Instagram Cropper enables you to crop images just like Instagram, you drag the image inside a rectangle.
It hasn't been maintained in the last 3 years. Not compatible with Vue 3.
Vue Slim Cropper
A simple and elegant mobile image crop upload component for Vue 2.
Last update was 2 years ago, Vue 3 isn't supported right now.
Vue Polygon Cropper
Draw a polygon line and crop the inside of the polygon. Useful for cropping irregular shapes.
Not compatible with Vue 3.
Vue Advanced Cropper
A flexible Vue cropper component that enables you to create almost any cropper. Easy to use and customize.
Well maintained. Compatible with Vue 2 and Vue 3.
Vue Image Crop Upload
A beautiful vue component for image cropping and uploading. Last update 2 years ago.
Last update was 2 years ago. Compatible with Vue 2 and Vue 3.
Vue Avatar Cropper
Easy avatar cropper for Vue, one of the most popular Vue profile picture croppers, unfortunately no longer maintained.
Last update was 2 years ago. Not compatible with Vue 3.
Slim Image Cropper for Vue
An easy way to crop images, compatible with Vue 2.
Unfortunately Slim has been discontinued and is no longer available.
Conclusion
The image cropper landscape for Vue is a bit sparse evidence being the various discontinued projects.
Luckily there's a handful of maintained products that can make it easy for us crop and upload images.
