Looping through assets in Vue.js static directory

Question

I've created a simple app in Vue (using the Webpack template) that has a carousel in it. What I would like to do is loop through all of the images in static/images to create that carousel. I know this is probably a dumb question, but how would I go about doing this? Do I need to perform a GET request?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm going to hand this off to a client to be hosted on their server. They would like to be able to add additional images to the carousel themselves if needed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

JavaScript can't directly access the contents of a file system. You'll have to pass the contents using a server-side script (PHP,NodeJs…). However, if you would go thought this you need that images named are sequential, then you can loop through names and check if image exist or not.

I think it would be better if you have a service-side when your client can upload images, create an API to list all images, then you performer a get request.

Answer 2

From this webpack documentation you can get all files in the directory or specific files based on a regex search pattern.

You could do something like:

var cache = {};

function importAll (r) {
  r.keys().forEach(key => cache[key] = r(key));
}

importAll(require.context('../components/', true, /\.js$/));

If you a need an array of image names from the server you could do this:

<template lang="html">
   <div style="height: 100px">
     <div :key="key" v-for="(img, key) in images" >
       <img :src="imageDir + key.substr(1)" class="" >
     </div>
    </div>
 </template>
<script>
export default {
  data() {
    return {
      imageDir: "/your/path/to/images/", // you know this already just from directory structure
      images: {}
    }
  },

  mounted() {
    this.importAll(require.context(this.imageDir, true, /\.png$/))
  },
  methods: {
    importAll(r) {
      var imgs = {}
      r.keys().forEach(key => (imgs[key] = r(key)))
      this.images = imgs
    }
  }
}
</script>

I am not entirely sure if I am doing it correctly but it return the images from the directory and displays them as expected.