Image Glitch in Vue.
Put a full-cover image behind old CRT glass. At rest it just sits there looking like a television set: curved barrel distortion, a scanline raster, phosphor vignette, faint chroma fringe. Hover and the signal starts fighting itself. It breaks into static, almost recovers, then static wins. Sync tears, analog snow, vertical hold slips, color bleed. Let go and it locks back in clean. Switch to digital mode with data-anm-tv="false" for a flat clean image that tears into coarse block-slice displacement and quantized corruption on hover instead. Hold trigger mode also available.
Install Image Glitch in your Vue project
Image Glitch ships as a copy-paste Vue 3 single-file component. The only dependency is GSAP - Vue's reactivity and lifecycle hooks replace the React useGSAP adapter, so no extra package is needed.
Where it goes in your Vue app
Image Glitch is a leaf-level interactive component. Drop it into any page, layout, or other component. It works in Vue 3 + Vite, Nuxt 3, and any standalone Vue setup.
In Nuxt, no special handling is needed - the component is client-safe and self-cleaning. If you want to ensure it never runs on the server (rare), wrap your usage in <ClientOnly>.
The component uses the <script setup> composition API and TypeScript-friendly defineProps.
Vue-specific gotchas
GSAP cleanup in onUnmounted, not onBeforeUnmount
onUnmounted to kill tweens and ScrollTriggers. onBeforeUnmount fires while the DOM is still mounted, but onUnmounted is the more idiomatic place for animation cleanup in Vue 3.Template refs are .value, not .current
const el = ref(null); access as el.value (not el.current like React). Pass el.value into gsap.to / gsap.from targets.Register plugins once, outside setup
gsap.registerPlugin(ScrollTrigger, ...)) can run at module top level in Vue 3 + Vite because the build is client-first. In Nuxt with SSR, wrap in if (process.client) or place inside onMounted.Common questions
- Does Image Glitch work in Nuxt 3?
- Yes. Drop it into any page or component. The component is client-safe; Nuxt handles the SSR boundary automatically. If you want explicit client-only rendering, wrap in
- Does Image Glitch work with Vue 2?
- No - the component uses the Vue 3 Composition API and