Vue 2 plugin for Composition API
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npm install @vue/composition-api
# or
yarn add @vue/composition-api
You must install @vue/composition-api
as a plugin via Vue.use()
before you can use the Composition API to compose your component.
import Vue from 'vue'
import VueCompositionAPI from '@vue/composition-api'
Vue.use(VueCompositionAPI)
// use the APIs
import { ref, reactive } from '@vue/composition-api'
💡 When you migrate to Vue 3, just replacing
@vue/composition-api
tovue
and your code should just work.
Include @vue/composition-api
after Vue and it will install itself automatically.
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.6"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@vue/composition-api@1.0.0-beta.21"></script>
@vue/composition-api
will be exposed to global variable window.VueCompositionAPI
.
const { ref, reactive } = VueCompositionAPI
TypeScript version >3.5.1 is required
To let TypeScript properly infer types inside Vue component options, you need to define components with defineComponent
import { defineComponent } from '@vue/composition-api'
export default defineComponent({
// type inference enabled
})
JSX is now officially supported on vuejs/jsx. You can enabled it by following this document. A community maintained version can be found at babel-preset-vca-jsx by @luwanquan.
To support TSX, create a declaration file with the following content in your project.
// file: shim-tsx.d.ts
import Vue, { VNode } from 'vue';
import { ComponentRenderProxy } from '@vue/composition-api';
declare global {
namespace JSX {
interface Element extends VNode {}
interface ElementClass extends ComponentRenderProxy {}
interface ElementAttributesProperty {
$props: any; // specify the property name to use
}
interface IntrinsicElements {
[elem: string]: any;
}
}
}
Even if there is no definitive Vue 3 API for SSR yet, this plugin implements the onServerPrefetch
lifecycle hook that allows you to use the serverPrefetch
hook found in the classic API.
import { onServerPrefetch } from '@vue/composition-api'
export default {
setup(props, { ssrContext }) {
const result = ref()
onServerPrefetch(async () => {
result.value = await callApi(ssrContext.someId)
})
return {
result,
}
}
}
@vue/composition-api
supports all modern browsers and IE11+. For lower versions IE you should install WeakMap
polyfill (for example from core-js
package).
✅ Support ❌ Not Supported
Unwrap
is not working with Array index.
❌ Should NOT store ref
as a direct child of Array
const state = reactive({
list: [ref(0)],
})
// no unwrap, `.value` is required
state.list[0].value === 0 // true
state.list.push(ref(1))
// no unwrap, `.value` is required
state.list[1].value === 1 // true
❌ Should NOT use ref
in a plain object when working with Array
const a = {
count: ref(0),
}
const b = reactive({
list: [a], // `a.count` will not unwrap!!
})
// no unwrap for `count`, `.value` is required
b.list[0].count.value === 0 // true
const b = reactive({
list: [
{
count: ref(0), // no unwrap!!
},
],
})
// no unwrap for `count`, `.value` is required
b.list[0].count.value === 0 // true
✅ Should always use ref
in a reactive
when working with Array
const a = reactive({
list: [
reactive({
count: ref(0),
}),
]
})
// unwrapped
a.list[0].count === 0 // true
a.list.push(
reactive({
count: ref(1),
})
)
// unwrapped
a.list[1].count === 1 // true
⚠️ set
and del
workaround for adding and deleting reactive properties
⚠️ Warning:set
anddel
do NOT exist in Vue 3. We provide them as a workaround here, due to the limitation of Vue 2.x reactivity system.In Vue 2, you will need to call
set
to track new keys on anobject
(similar toVue.set
but forreactive objects
created by the Composition API). In Vue 3, you can just assign them like normal objects.Similarly, in Vue 2 you will need to call
del
to ensure a key deletion triggers view updates in reactive objects (similar toVue.delete
but forreactive objects
created by the Composition API). In Vue 3 you can just delete them by callingdelete foo.bar
.
import { reactive, set } from '@vue/composition-api'
const a = reactive({
foo: 1
})
// add new reactive key
set(a, 'bar', 1)
// remove a key and trigger reactivity
del(a, 'bar')
✅ String ref && return it from setup()
<template>
<div ref="root"></div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
setup() {
const root = ref(null)
onMounted(() => {
// the DOM element will be assigned to the ref after initial render
console.log(root.value) // <div/>
})
return {
root,
}
},
}
</script>
✅ String ref && return it from setup()
&& Render Function / JSX
export default {
setup() {
const root = ref(null)
onMounted(() => {
// the DOM element will be assigned to the ref after initial render
console.log(root.value) // <div/>
})
return {
root,
}
},
render() {
// with JSX
return () => <div ref="root" />
},
}
❌ Function ref
<template>
<div :ref="el => root = el"></div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
setup() {
const root = ref(null)
return {
root,
}
},
}
</script>
❌ Render Function / JSX in setup()
export default {
setup() {
const root = ref(null)
return () =>
h('div', {
ref: root,
})
// with JSX
return () => <div ref={root} />
},
}
⚠️ $refs
accessing workaround
⚠️ Warning: TheSetupContext.refs
won't exist inVue 3.0
.@vue/composition-api
provide it as a workaround here.
If you really want to use template refs in this case, you can access vm.$refs
via SetupContext.refs
export default {
setup(initProps, setupContext) {
const refs = setupContext.refs
onMounted(() => {
// the DOM element will be assigned to the ref after initial render
console.log(refs.root) // <div/>
})
return () =>
h('div', {
ref: 'root',
})
// with JSX
return () => <div ref="root" />
},
}
You may also need to augment the SetupContext
when working with TypeScript:
import Vue from 'vue'
declare module '@vue/composition-api' {
interface SetupContext {
readonly refs: { [key: string]: Vue | Element | Vue[] | Element[] }
}
}
⚠️ reactive()
mutates the original object
reactive
uses Vue.observable
underneath which will mutate the original object.
💡 In Vue 3, it will return an new proxy object.
❌ onTrack
and onTrigger
are not available in WatchOptions
watch(() => {
/* ... */
}, {
immediate: true,
onTrack() {}, // not available
onTrigger() {}, // not available
})
⚠️ createApp()
is global
In Vue 3, createApp()
is introduced to provide context(plugin, components, etc.) isolation between app instances. Due the the design of Vue 2, in this plugin, we provide createApp()
as a forward compatible API which is just an alias of the global.
const app1 = createApp(RootComponent1)
app1.component('Foo', Foo) // equivalent to Vue.component('Foo', Foo)
app1.use(VueRouter) // equivalent to Vue.use(VueRouter)
const app2 = createApp(RootComponent2)
app2.component('Bar', Bar) // equivalent to Vue.use('Bar', Bar)
⚠️ shallowReadonly()
will create a new object and with the same root properties, new properties added will not be readonly or reactive.
💡 In Vue 3, it will return an new proxy object.
⚠️ readonly()
provides **only type-level** readonly check.
readonly()
is provided as API alignment with Vue 3 on type-level only. Use isReadonly()
on it or it's properties can not be guaranteed.
⚠️ toRefs(props.foo.bar)
will incorrectly warn when acessing nested levels of props.
⚠️ isReactive(props.foo.bar)
will return false.
defineComponent({
setup(props) {
const { bar } = toRefs(props.foo) // it will `warn`
// use this instead
const { foo } = toRefs(props)
const a = foo.value.bar
}
})
The following APIs introduced in Vue 3 are not available in this plugin.
defineAsyncComponent
onRenderTracked
onRenderTriggered
isProxy
❌ Passing ref
, reactive
or other reactive apis to data()
would not work.
export default {
data() {
return {
// will result { a: { value: 1 } } in template
a: ref(1),
}
},
}
❌ emit
option is provided in type-level only, in order to align with Vue 3's type interface. Does NOT have actual effects on the code.
defineComponent({
emit: {
// has no effects
submit: (eventOption) => {
if (...) {
return true
} else {
console.warn('Invalid submit event payload!')
return false
}
}
}
})
Due the the limitation of Vue2's public API. @vue/composition-api
inevitably introduces some performance overhead. Note that in most scenarios, this shouldn't be the source of performance issues.
You can check the benchmark results for more details.