How to properly load Bootstrap5's Masonry into Nuxt? - vue.js

I am trying to use the Masonry plugin with Bootstrap5 and NuxtJS. When I follow the example here
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/examples/masonry/ and incorporate it into my own codesandbox, I notice that my demo is not in the correct masonry format. See the gaps? My sandbox
My example:
Bootstrap's example:
What do I need to do to get my demo into format shown on the Bootstrap Masonry example page?

I checked how to load the script from a CDN either globally or locally. It was working but at one condition: you needed to NOT start on the masonry page.
Meaning that if you loaded the app on a specific page, then moved to the one with the masonry it was working. But not if you started on this specific page. So, a pretty subpar solution.
This article was really helpful to understand how to wait until the CDN script is fully loaded: https://vueschool.io/articles/vuejs-tutorials/how-to-load-third-party-scripts-in-nuxt-js/
Then I realized that we are far better installing it directly as an NPM dependency. Therefore, I proceeded to the masonry repo. Found a great message on how to setup the whole thing in Nuxt.
And after a removal of some useless stuff and some modern dynamic import, here we are
<template>
<main>
<h1>Bootstrap and Masonry</h1>
<div class="row" id="masonry">
<!-- ... -->
</main>
</template>
<script>
export default {
async mounted() {
if (process.browser) {
let { default: Masonry } = await import('masonry-layout')
new Masonry('#masonry', { percentPosition: true })
}
},
}
</script>
The final solution is looking pretty well and there is not a lot of code. On top of that, the code is properly loaded. And you can load it on a click or any other event.

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Vue won't render anything if there are *any* errors

I'm learning Vue, and I notice that when other people view their webpages, it mostly displays alright even if they haven't finished the code. This is the behavior I'm used to from vanilla html/css/javascript.
But every time I have any problem with a component, e.g. undefined variable, it breaks the whole component and nothing gets displayed. For example, in a Single File Component if I have
<template>
<form>
<label>Write the title:</label>
<input v-model="title"></input>
/* Bunch of other stuff */
<form>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
/* I forget to write title here */
}
}
}
</script>
<style>
</style>
The whole template won't get displayed. Why is this happening and how can I fix it? It makes development much harder.
Btw I'm using Vue CLI 3 and used Vue UI to create the project, and "npm run serve" to view the site.

Using vue.js without NPM or CLI

I'd like to use Vue.js within one page of a large legacy application. The idea is to replace the old JS+jQuery hodge-podge within a single page -- but leave the rest of the app (many other pages) untouched. So, not interested in using NPM, Node, Vue CLI, Webpack, Babel, etc., just yet.
This is a proof-of-concept before we invest in refactoring the entire frontend of the application.
The approach we followed was to include vue.js via as explained here: https://v2.vuejs.org/v2/guide/installation.html#Direct-lt-script-gt-Include in that one page, and the use Vue only within that one page. This is the general page layout:
<html>
<head>
...
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue/dist/vue.js"></script>
...
</head>
<body>
<div id="el">
... vue template ...
</div>
<script>
...
var vm = new Vue({
el : '#el',
data : {
config : <% config.json %> // this is server-rendered, using server templating
...
},
...
});
...
</script>
</body>
</html>
The page does work. However, I get the following error/warning within the Vue console:
Templates should only be responsible for mapping the state to the UI. Avoid placing tags with side-effects in your templates, such as <script>, as they will not be parsed.
Although I'd rather not, I can certainly move the page-specific JS to its own separate file (and that does eliminate the warning/error). However, I wouldn't be able to set vm.config with server-provided data along with the loaded page by using server-side template, e.g. config : <% config.json %>. I know I could GET it using JS separately, after pageload, via an AJAX call directly from the server, but for practical reasons I'd like to avoid doing that here.
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to get this to work nicely. I'm also open to other suggestions with regard to this general pattern, that don't involve retooling the front-end just yet.
And perhaps the answer is to ignore the warning, or somehow disable it, given the page does work as intended...
Thank you!
One simple solution here is to write it to the global window object. IIRC SSR frameworks like Angular universal/Nuxt/Next/... all use this approach.
window.__STATE__ = <% config.json %>
In your JS file you can then refer to the window.__STATE__ object.
var vm = new Vue({
el: '#el',
data: {
config: window.__STATE__
}
})
Ofcourse the order is important here:
<body>
<script>
window.__STATE__ = <% config.json %>
</script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
Grrr, after several days after enduring this error, I discovered this:
<fieldset id="el">
...
<div id="el">
...
</div>
...
</fieldset>
So the issue was repeating #el within same page.
My mistake.
Just wish the error message emitted by Vue had been a bit more useful!
Bottom line: The pattern described in the origional question works just fine without NPM/CLI.

Vue cli image wont load with webpack

What am I doing?
I am using the intersection observer API to make lazy loading.
What have I tried?
I tried the code in a simple HTML page and it works perfect, but when I use the code in vue, the images won't load (local images). If I put a htttp source images (online images) it works perfect, too. I think this is a webpack error config. Am I right? How can I fix it?.
Whats the error?
When i use a local image the code doesnt work, if only change that src with something else like this image https://images.pexels.com/photos/69817/france-confectionery-raspberry-cake-fruit-69817.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940 the code WORKS, why i cant make it work with local images?
HTML AND SCRIPT
<template>
<div class="container" id="section3">
<span class="containerTitle">Galeria</span>
<div class="wrapper">
<img v-lazyload data-src="#assets/images/001.jpg" class="card">
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import lazyload from '../directives/lazyload'
export default {
directives:{
lazyload
},
}
</script>
DIRECTIVE
export default{
inserted: el =>{
const options = {
// root:
rootMargin: '0px 0px 0px 0px',
threshold:1
}
var observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries,observer) =>{
entries.forEach(entry => {
if(entry.isIntersecting){
el.src = el.dataset.src
observer.unobserve(el)
console.log('intersecting');
}
})
},options)
observer.observe(el)
}
}
CODE IMAGE
FOLDER
The issue is with your image path.
You can fix it with either using public folder and give it in path.
You can also check for auto suggestion which come up while typing, this may help you to check whether your path is correct or not.
Like this
Your path is wrong. You gave ../assets/images/001.jpg as the path to the image (as stated in your question), but according to your directory tree it's ../assets/001.jpg (or write it like #/assets/001.jpg, # points to root of project). That should fix it.
As far as I remember you can't use # sign inside <template>.
So you can either:
require it
<img v-lazyload :data-src="require('#assets/images/001.jpg')" class="card">
import it
<template>
...
<img v-lazyload data-src="image" class="card">
...
</template>
<script>
import img from '#assets/images/001.jpg';
...
data() {
return {
image: img,
}
}
...
</script>
use relative path
<img v-lazyload data-src="../assets/images/001.jpg" class="card">
You can check how it works in Vue docs
I can't remember why this works, but you need to use the following syntax:
<img v-lazyload data-src="~assets/images/001.jpg" class="card">
with the ~ replacing the ../.
I will update the answer if I figure out exactly why.
doing extensive research i found this article about vuejs and static assets.
https://edicasoft.com/weblog/2018/04/27/static-vs-srcassets-webpack-template-vue-cli/
They said that this kind of problems occurs "because" of webpack,like i though, so the solution for this (i hope not the only solution), but this is the solution so far...
QUOTE
All asset URLs such as , background: url(...) and CSS #import are resolved by Webpack as module dependencies like require('./logo.png').
We then use loaders for Webpack, such as file-loader and url-loader, to process them. Webpack template has already configured these loaders.
File-loader helps to determine the final file location and how to name it using version hashes for better caching. Thus you can put your static assets near your .vue files and use relative paths. There is no need to put them strictly into the ‘assets’ folder.
Url-loader helps to conditionally inline assets such as base64 data URL, reducing the amount of HTTP requests.
So what the hell should I do with it?
The answer is: put your assets in the ‘src’ folder.
I tested this and it works perfect BUT you CANT make a subfolder and this for me, is disorganized.
This is the final folder structure to get this done using intersection observer api as vue directive!

Headless CMS and static pages? Content updates?

I am trying to use my first Headless CMS and I've tried both Prismic.io and Contentful.
For instance, this is the code from Contentful guide:
asyncData({ env }) {
return Promise.all([
// fetch the owner of the blog
client.getEntries({
'sys.id': env.CTF_PERSON_ID
}),
// fetch all blog posts sorted by creation date
client.getEntries({
content_type: env.CTF_BLOG_POST_TYPE_ID,
order: '-sys.createdAt'
})
])
.then(([entries, posts]) => {
// return data that should be available
// in the template
return {
person: entries.items[0],
posts: posts.items
}
})
.catch(console.error)
}
This works fine and I am able to fetch my blog posts in
<article v-for="post in posts" :key="post">
<h2>{{ post.fields.title }}</h2>
<p>{{ post.fields.content }}</p>
</article>
However, if I generate static pages with Nuxt, I understood the page will still load the latest version of the content from Contentful when live, while instead it just keeps the static content fetched on the pages when generated.
Am I missing the main point here?
Thanks
What you discovered is correct. Nuxt in its current version makes requests to the contentful API when new navigations occur. Afaik there are plans to write the data to disk during build time (e.g. Gatsby does it like that) but these are not implemented yet.
Personally, I'm running my private blog on exactly this tech stack and there is a small time window where static pages and the dynamically loaded part are different. This wasn't a bit problem for me so far. I can understand though that this could cause troubles.

Vue prerender flickering

I have the following solution now:
<template>
<section id="prod-main">
<prod-preview v-for="prod in products" :id="prod.id" :key="prod.id"/>
</section>
</template>
export default {
...
computed: {
products: function () {
return this.$store.getters['products/getPreview']
}
}
...
}
Vuex store will receive info after some delay from my backend. So at first call it will be empty. Now I want to use vue spa prerender and here I see a flickering.
As I understood it works like:
1. Browser loads HTML with products
2. Execute js that replace products with nothing because the store is empty.
3. After some delay shows it again with backend info.
How can I fix it? I should left prerender for indexing and I can't hardcode the backend reply.
You can use the setting captureAfterTime to wait for your async call to complete, before saving the html of the page.
Other settings are available :
// NOTE: Unless you are relying on asynchronously rendered content,
// such as after an Ajax request, none of these options should be
// necessary. All synchronous scripts are already executed before
// capturing the page content.
// Wait until a specific event is fired on the document.
captureAfterDocumentEvent: 'custom-post-render-event',
// This is how you would trigger this example event:
// document.dispatchEvent(new Event('custom-post-render-event'))
// Wait until a specific element is detected with
// document.querySelector.
captureAfterElementExists: '#content',
// Wait until a number of milliseconds has passed after scripts
// have been executed. It's important to note that this may
// produce unreliable results when relying on network
// communication or other operations with highly variable timing.
captureAfterTime: 5000,
Another issue can be related to how the prerendered HTMl gets hydrated, i've openned an issue on github, but they still haven't addressed it (and are not willing to ?)
https://github.com/chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin/issues/131
The solution is to add data-server-rendered="true" to your vuejs parent node in the prerendered html, like this:
<div id="root" data-server-rendered="true">...
You can use the option postProcessHtml to do so.
I don't know if I understand your problem here but have you tried to add a v-if to avoid flickering:
<template>
<section id="prod-main">
<prod-preview
v-if="products.length > 0"
v-for="prod in products"
:id="prod.id"
:key="prod.id"/>
</section>
</template>