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Getting Lazy with Vue and PDFs

Avatar for Ross Kaffenberger Ross Kaffenberger
January 16, 2019
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Getting Lazy with Vue and PDFs

I share the most important lessons learned while building a PDF Viewer in Vue.

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Ross Kaffenberger

January 16, 2019

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Transcript

  1. Ross Kaffenberger @rossta Getting Lazy with Vue and PDFs

  2. Ross Kaffenberger @rossta Building a PDF Vue-er

  3. #dadjokes

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  5. • ross kaffenberger @rossta

  6. rossta.net/vue-pdfjs-demo

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  8. PDF.js fetching

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  10. PDF.js rendering

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  12. PDF.js in Vue

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  15. Problem: Large PDFs

  16. •Lazy render: draw to canvas when visible •“Infinite” scroll: fetch

    pages in batches

  17. Iteration #1: Math!

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  26. Problem: Vue cannot watch $el properties

  27. Manual work

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  32. Next iteration:

  33. IntersectionObserver!

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  36. Advantages

  37. •no $el property tracking •less code, fewer bugs •easier to

    extend

  38. Akryum/vue-observe-visibility

  39. Lesson: Opt for Vue-friendliness

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  41. Lesson: Be curious and flexible

  42. rossta/vue-pdfjs-demo

  43. @rossta rossta.net/talks [email protected]