Plyrue

Vue 3 plugin for Plyr

About

Plyrue (/pliru/) is a Vue plugin that wraps the Plyr media player and gives it a simple, declarative API.

Written in TypeScript, shipped as ESM + UMD with bundled type declarations.

Requirements

Plyrue	Vue	Plyr	Node
3.x	^3.4	^3.7.8	>= 20.19
2.x	^2.6	^3.6	—

vue and plyr are peer dependencies — install them alongside Plyrue.

Installation

npm install plyrue plyr

Import Plyr's stylesheet once in your app:

import 'plyr/dist/plyr.css';

Initialization

import { createApp } from 'vue';
import Plyrue from 'plyrue';
import 'plyr/dist/plyr.css';
import App from './App.vue';

createApp(App).use(Plyrue).mount('#app');

Or import the component directly, without registering the plugin:

<script setup lang="ts">
import { Plyrue } from 'plyrue';
</script>

<template>
  <Plyrue type="video" src="https://example.com/video-576p.mp4" />
</template>

Usage

Plyrue can be used in two ways:

• with slots
• with data (for audio and video)

With slots

<plyrue
  type="video"
  poster="https://example.com/video-HD.jpg"
  src="https://example.com/video-576p.mp4"
  :options="options"
>
  <source src="https://example.com/video-576p.mp4" type="video/mp4" size="576" />
  <track
    kind="captions"
    label="English"
    srclang="en"
    src="https://example.com/video-HD.en.vtt"
    default
  />
</plyrue>

When type is set, Plyrue renders the video / audio tag for you. When it is not set, the default component is used and you must supply the media element yourself:

<plyrue>
  <video controls src="https://example.com/video-576p.mp4">
    <source src="https://example.com/video-1080p.mp4" type="video/mp4" size="1080" />
    <track
      kind="captions"
      label="English"
      srclang="en"
      src="https://example.com/video-HD.en.vtt"
      default
    />
    <a href="https://example.com/video-576p.mp4" download>Download</a>
  </video>
</plyrue>

With data

<script setup lang="ts">
import type { PlyrueCaption, PlyrueSource } from 'plyrue';

const sources: PlyrueSource[] = [
  { src: 'https://example.com/video-576p.mp4', type: 'video/mp4', size: 576 }
];

const captions: PlyrueCaption[] = [
  {
    label: 'Croatian',
    srclang: 'hr',
    src: 'https://example.com/video-HD.hr.vtt'
  }
];
</script>

<template>
  <plyrue
    type="video"
    poster="https://example.com/video-HD.jpg"
    src="https://example.com/video-576p.mp4"
    :sources="sources"
    :captions="captions"
  />
</template>

Plugin options

app.use(Plyrue, { name: 'my-player' });

name

• Type: string
• Default: plyrue

The name the component is registered under.

Props

type

• Type: 'default' | 'audio' | 'video' | 'embed'

• Default: 'default'

• video for HTML5 video

• audio for HTML5 audio

• embed for YouTube and Vimeo

• default renders the slot as-is

options

• Type: Plyr.Options
• Default: {}

Options for the Plyr player, documented here. The player is recreated when this object changes.

poster

• Type: string
• Required: false

Poster image, applied to the player and kept in sync when it changes.

sources

• Type: PlyrueSource[]
• Required: false

For video:

[{ src: 'https://example.com/video.mp4', type: 'video/mp4', size: 576 }];

For audio:

[{ src: 'https://example.com/audio.mp3', type: 'audio/mp3' }];

captions

• Type: PlyrueCaption[]
• Required: false

[
  {
    label: 'Croatian',
    srclang: 'hr',
    src: 'https://example.com/caption.hr.vtt'
  }
];

Attributes

All valid attributes for video, audio and iframe are passed down to the corresponding element. Plyrue provides sensible defaults for video and audio.

• video
• audio
• iframe

<plyrue type="audio" :sources="audio" autoplay loop />

Events

Every Plyr event is re-emitted by the component, plus a player event carrying the Plyr instance once it is created.

<script setup lang="ts">
import type { PlyrPlayer } from 'plyrue';

const onPlayer = (player: PlyrPlayer) => console.log(player);
const onPlaying = (event: Event) => console.log(event);
</script>

<template>
  <plyrue type="video" src="…" @player="onPlayer" @playing="onPlaying" />
</template>

The full list is exported as PLYR_EVENTS.

Accessing the player instance

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue';

const plyrue = ref();
const pause = () => plyrue.value?.player?.pause();
</script>

<template>
  <plyrue ref="plyrue" type="video" src="…" />
</template>

Migrating from 2.x

• Requires Vue 3. Register with app.use(Plyrue) instead of Vue.use(Plyrue).
• vue and plyr are now peer dependencies you install yourself.
• Plyr's CSS is no longer imported by the package — add import 'plyr/dist/plyr.css' to your app.
• All Plyr events are emitted unconditionally; you no longer need a listener attached at mount time for an event to fire.
• embed sources are restricted to http(s) URLs; anything else renders an iframe with no src.
• The package is published as ESM + UMD (plyrue.js / plyrue.umd.cjs) with bundled types.

Development

npm run dev            # run the example app
npm run test           # run the test suite
npm run test:coverage  # run tests with coverage
npm run lint           # lint
npm run typecheck      # type-check
npm run build          # type-check and build the library

Contributing

All contributions are welcome.

Credits

Plyrue is inspired by vue-plyr.

License

MIT @ Zdravko Ćurić (zcuric)