Lazy load images while showing a preview. Super tiny, less than half a kilobyte minified and gzipped.

v-lazy-img adds the directives v-lazy-load and v-lazy-load-bg. The latter changes the background image (css background-image) instead of the src-attribute.

<template>
  <img class="lazy-loaded" v-lazy-load='fullimage' src='./assets/previewimage.jpg' />
  <div class="lazy-loaded" v-lazy-load-bg='fullbackground' src='./assets/previewbackground.jpg' />
</template>

<script>
import fullimage from './assets/fullimage.png'
import fullbackground from './assets/fullbackground.png'

export default {
  data () {
    return { fullimage, fullbackground }
  }
}
</script>

<style>
.lazy-loaded {
  /* setting a fixed width is recommended */
  width: 100%;
  /* nice effect as an example */
  transition: opacity .5s ease-in;
  opacity: .5;
}

/* applied as soon as loading starts */
.lazy-loaded.lazy-load-progress {
  filter: blur(5px);
}

/* applied as soon as loading succeeds */
.lazy-loaded.lazy-load-success {
  opacity: 1;
}

/* applied if loading fails */
.lazy-loaded.lazy-load-error {
  filter: blur(3px) sepia(1);
  outline: 4px solid red;
}

</style>

v-lazy-img started as a proof of concept but is simple enough to be usable already. If you are using it in your project, I'm looking forward to hear about your experiences!

Additional features could include

• srcset support
• a loading indicator
• Vue3 support
• support new loading attribute (https://caniuse.com/#feat=loading-lazy-attr)

• vue-lazyload - A Vue.js plugin for lazyload your Image or Component in your application.
• vue-lazy-background-images - Lazy load background images for Vue 2.
• vue-progressive-image - Vue progressive image loading plugin.
• vue-l-lazyload - A lazyload plugin for Vue.js v2.x+.
• vue-lazyload-img - Especially optimized for mobile browser. support V2 & v1.
• vue-lazy-images - A plugin of lazyload images for Vue 2.x. And quiet some more: https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue#lazy-load

I didn't try all of the above but as mentioned under current state I mainly wanted to try it by myself. The result is also incredibly small: Under 500 bytes minimized and gzipped!