How to Create an Animated Countdown Timer With Vue

Have you ever needed a countdown timer on a project? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think. Let’s make one together!

This is what we’re aiming for:

Here are a few things the timer does that we’ll be covering in this post:

• Displays the initial time remaining
• Converts the time value to a MM:SS format
• Calculates the difference between the initial time remaining and how much time has passed
• Changes color as the time remaining nears zero
• Displays the progress of time remaining as an animated ring

OK, that’s what we want, so let’s make it happen!

Step 1: Start with the basic markup and styles

Let’s start by creating a basic template for our timer. In the template section of our component, we will add an SVG with a circle element inside to…