vue-heart-rating

Heart Rating Component for Vue 3.x

A simple, highly customizable heart rating component for Vue 3.x.

This component is based on vue-star-rating, but it has been modified to use hearts instead of stars.

Features:

• SVG hearts - scale without loss of quality.
• Customisable rating increments.
• Customisable colors.
• Customisable number of hearts.
• Create read-only hearts.

Usage

Install Via NPM

Install via npm:

Vue 3.x Install

npm install vue-heart-rating

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Once installed import in to your component:

import HeartRating from 'vue-heart-rating'

Then register vue-heart-rating using the components option:

components: {
  HeartRating
}

You can then use the following markup in your project:

<heart-rating />

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Getting Started

To get started with vue-heart-rating you will want to sync the rating values between the component and parent, you can then take a look at the props and custom events section of the docs to customise your heart-rating component.

Syncing Rating Values with V-Model

vue-heart-rating supports v-model, which is the simplest way to keep your ratings in sync:

Vue 3.x

v-model works on the rating prop, so if you're using Vue 3 you will need to do:

<heart-rating v-model:rating="rating"></heart-rating>

Docs

Props

The following props can be passed to the component:

General Props

These props provide general functionailty to the heart rating component

Prop	Description	Type	Default
increment	The rating increment, for example pass 0.5 for half hearts or 0.01 for fluid hearts. Expects a number between 0.01 - 1.	Number	1
rating	The initial rating, this will automatically round to the closest increment, so for the most accurate rating pass 0.01 as increment or set the round-start-rating prop to false	Number	0
max-rating	The maximum rating, this lets vue-heart-rating know how many hearts to display	Number	5
read-only	When set to true, the rating cannot be edited. Use in conjuction with increment to define rounding precision.	Boolean	false
show-rating	Whether or not to show the rating next to the hearts	Boolean	true
fixed-points	Specify a fixed number of digits after the decimal point.	Number	null
rtl	Pass true to display heart rating using rtl (right-to-left)	Boolean	false
round-start-rating	Pass false if you don't want the start rating value to round to the closest increment. The user will still only be able to select based on the given increment.	Boolean	true
clearable	When set to true a second click on the same rating clears the rating	Boolean	false
active-on-click	When set to true only apply active colors when the user clicks the heart, rather than on mouseover.	Boolean	false

Style Props

These props are used to style the heart rating component

Prop	Description	Type	Default
heart-size	The size of each heart, this gets passed to the SVG width attribute, so larger numbers are larger hearts	Number	50
inactive-color	The color of the non-highlighted portion of a heart.	String	#d8d8d8
active-color	The color of the highlighted portion of a heart. Pass an array of colors to color each heart individually	String | Array	#ffd055
border-color	Sets the colour of the border for each heart	String	#999
active-border-color	The border color of a highlighted heart. Pass an array of colors to color each heart's border individually	String | Array	null
border-width	Sets the width of the border for each heart	Number	0
animate	Set to true for an animation to be applied on mouseover	Boolean	false
padding	Pads the right of each heart so distance between hearts can be altered	Number	0
inline	Sets the heart rating to display inline	Boolean	false
glow	Adds a subtle glow around each active heart, this should be a number to spread the glow	Number	0
glow-color	Sets the color for the glow	String	#fff
text-class	A css class name to style the rating text for a specific heart rating component	String	''

Important: Vue requires you to pass numbers and boolean values using v-bind, any props that require a number or bool should use v-bind: or the colon (:) shorthand.

Props Example

<heart-rating v-bind:increment="0.5"
             v-bind:max-rating="3"
             inactive-color="#000"
             active-color="#f00"
             v-bind:heart-size="90">
</heart-rating>

Passing an Array of Colors

The active-color and active-border-color props also accept an array of colors. The colors in the array will be applied to the hearts in order, so index 0 will be the color of the first heart, index 1 will be the second and so on. Any array you pass will be padded if the number of elements in the array is less than the number of hearts. This means that the following code will color the first heart red and ALL remaining hearts black.

<heart-rating :active-color="['red','black']">
</heart-rating>

Custom Events

vue-heart-rating fires the following custom events, simply use v-on: or the @ shortand to capture the event.

Vue 3.x Events

Some changes have been made to event names in Vue 3

Event	Description	Return Value
update:rating	Returns the rating the user selects via the click event	rating
hover:rating	Returns the rating that the users mouse is currently over	rating

Vue 3.x Example

<heart-rating @update:rating ="setRating"></heart-rating>

Then in your view model:

const app = Vue.createApp({
  methods: {
    setRating(rating){
      this.rating= rating;
    }
  },
  data: {
    rating: 0
  }
})
app.component('heart-rating', VueHeartRating.default)
app.mount('#app')

Screen Reader Support

vue-heart-rating has built in support for screen readers. By default this message will read "Rated {{rating}} out of {{maxRating}} hearts", you can change this by using the screen-reader scoped slot:

<heart-rating>
    <template v-slot:screen-reader="slotProps">
        This product has been rated {{slotProps.rating}} out of {{slotProps.hearts}} hearts
    </template>
</heart-rating>

IE9 Support

vue-heart-rating supports IE 9+; make sure you place the following in the head of your webpage to ensure that IE is in standards mode:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">

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