Lottie interactive is custom web element adding multiple types of interactivity to Lottie animations.

Installation

Lottie-interactive is available through npm.

npm install lottie-interactive

Lottie-interactive is also available though unpkg.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/lottie-interactive@latest/dist/lottie-interactive.js"></script>

Usage

From javascript module:

import { LottieInteractive } from "lottie-interactive";

Usage in markup:

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="click"></lottie-interactive>

Nuxt.js

• npm i lottie-interactive
• Create a plugin for lottie-interactive in /plugins/lottie-interactive.client.js:

import Vue from "vue";
import LottieInteractive from "lottie-interactive";

Vue.use(LottieInteractive);

You can then use lottie-interactive inside of your templates:

<template>
  <lottie-interactive
    path="/animations/svgenius-logo.json"
    autoplay
    loop
    view-box="0 0 500 300"
  />
</template>

Remarks: Animation files (.json) can be accessed if put inside the /static directory. URLs to the animation can also be used.

Next.js

• npm i lottie-interactive

Then inside of your pages:

import React from "react";

export default function Home() {
  React.useEffect(() => {
    import("lottie-interactive/dist/lottie-interactive.js");
  });

  return (
    <div>
          <lottie-interactive
              path="/animations/svgenius-logo.json"
              autoplay
              loop
          />
    </div>
  );
}

Remarks: Animation files (.json) can be accessed if put inside the /public/ directory. URLs to the animation can also be used.

Examples

npm i
npm start

Current interactions and available attributes

Interactions

click

Plays animation when user clicks on animation container

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="click"></lottie-interactive>

freeze click

Freezes animation when user clicks on animation container

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="freeze-click" autoplay loop></lottie-interactive>

hover

Plays animation when user hovers on animation container

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="hover"></lottie-interactive>

morph

Plays animation when user hovers on animation container, plays in reverse on 'mouseexit' event

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="morph"></lottie-interactive>

morph-lock

Plays animation when user hovers on animation container. Locks animation at the end if user clicks. Plays in reverse on 'mouseexit' event.

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="morph-lock"></lottie-interactive>

switch

Plays animation when user clicks on animation container, plays again in reverse on second click

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="switch"></lottie-interactive>

play-on-show

Plays animation when container is visible

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="play-on-show"></lottie-interactive>

play-once

Plays animation once

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" interaction="play-once"></lottie-interactive>

Attributes

The default state for attributes are false or null for stroke width and color.

loop

Makes the animation loop

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" loop></lottie-interactive>

s-width

Changes the stroke width of every stroke

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" s-width="25"></lottie-interactive>

s-color

Changes the stroke color of every stroke, must be a full hexadecimal color

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" s-color="#ffffff"></lottie-interactive>

autoplay

Makes the animation play automatically on load

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" autoplay></lottie-interactive>

speed

Sets the speed of the animation

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" speed="0.5"></lottie-interactive>

delay

Delay the loading of the animation, defined in milliseconds

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" delay="3000"></lottie-interactive>

reset

Resets the animation to the first frame after it has finished playing

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" reset></lottie-interactive>

aspect-ratio

Define aspect ratio, default value is 'xMidYMid slice', more information here

<lottie-interactive path="button.json" aspect-ratio='xMidYMid meet'></lottie-interactive>

Usage notice

Browser compatibility

Currently this library is usable on modern browsers supporting Web components and Lottie.

Bundlers

We recommend using this library with a module bundler such as webpack.

Upcoming features

• Color on hover
• Animation zooming
• Padding modifier
• Upgrade codebase to use Microsoft FAST

Youtube guides

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPPNxV39UlVo3emNQSNNTug

Lottie animations

https://svgenius.co

https://lottiefiles.com/svgenius