Introduction

an easy way to embed a ePub into your webapp

Installation

npm

npm i vue-reader

pnpm

pnpm add vue-reader

Basic Usage

And in your vue-component...

Vue 3

Vue 2

<template>
  <div style='height: 100vh'>
    <vue-reader url='/vue-reader/files/啼笑因缘.epub'/>
  </div>
</template>
<script>
import { VueReader } from 'vue-reader'

export default {
  components: { VueReader }
}
</script>

Different Builds

Module	Filename
UMD(for browsers)	vue-reader.global-full.js
CommonJS	vue-reader.cjs.js
ES Module(for bundlers)	vue-reader.es.js

VueReader Attributes

Name	Description	Type	Default
url	book url or arrayBuffer	string/ArrayBuffer	—
title	the title of the book	string	—
showToc	whether to show the toc	boolean	true
backgroundColor	backgroundColor of reader	string	#fff

VueReader Events

Name	Description	Type
progress	book url request progress	function(percentage)

VueReader Slots

Name	Description
title	You have access to title by slot

VueReader props passed to inner EpubView

EpubView Attributes

Name	Description	Type	Default
url	the path or arrayBuffer of the book	string/ArrayBuffer	—
location	set / update location of the epub	string/number	—
tocChanged	when the reader has parsed the book you will receive an array of the chapters	function(toc)	—
epubInitOptions	pass custom properties to the epub init function, see epub.js	object	—
epubOptions	pass custom properties to the epub rendition, see epub.js's book.renderTo function	object	—
getRendition	when epubjs has rendered the epub-file you can get access to the epubjs-rendition object here	function(rendition)	—

EpubView Events

Name	Description	Type
update:location	a function that receives the current location while user is reading. This function is called everytime the page changes, and also when it first renders.	function(location)
select	when select text	function(cfirange,contents)
keyPress	when press the key	function(keyboardEvent)

EpubView Slots

Name	Description
loadingView	epub view loadingView

EpubView Exposes

Name	Description	Type
nextPage	display next page	function
prevPage	display previous page	function
setLocation	Set the page	function(href)