Complete guide to using Lottie animations in Vue 3 with @lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue and lottie-web. Includes free animation sources and editor tools.
Lottie animations are the best way to add crisp, lightweight animations to your Vue app. This guide covers the two main approaches in Vue 3.
Option 1: @lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue (Recommended)
The DotLottie package is the modern approach — smaller runtime (~100KB vs ~500KB), supports the newer compressed .lottie format, and has a clean Vue 3 API.
npm install @lottiefiles/dotlottie-vue
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