Spartacus | Best practise to add some details in existing component where outletRef not available - spartacus-storefront

This question is more on best practise for including some more details in existing component where outlet ref is not available.
For ex. In checkout, during review-order step, I need to add some custom details with delivery-mode and i want to use the complete component as is.
Do i need to
copy all the html & component logic from spartacus code
create my custom component and use all copied code
add the little detail with my delivery mode section
replace the existing component by my custom component using COMPONENT as outlet-ref
There is lot of duplicate code to implement this.
Is there a better way like just inherit all the component detail by importing the component in my module and override the specific section (i am not sure but i was thinking that would be helpful. ).

Here is what I would do:
create new component
copy all the html from spartacus to this component
extend the original component instead of copying all the logic
replace component in configuration
We're working on better way to extend templates, but that's not gonna be available soon. In the approach I recommended when updating spartacus you would only need to validate if the template changed, as the component logic will be automatically updated when you extend it.

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Is it necessary to create a ui component(s) for a single call in one page?

I am about to create a Vue.js project and i use the smart/dumb pattern for my ui components. In my dumb components I have already the input, buttons and etc..., but in my smart components I am curios if it is really necessary to create a component if i will use that only in one page. For example. login-form component, then i will use that only in login page. So, ⤵️
My first question, is it really necessary to create a component for that ?
Second question, and when will i gonna create a smart components?
Moving code to another components makes code of initial component more readable. Even if you are going to use that new components only once.
Usually smart components - are pages that fetch or simply share some data to its children.

How to override component on specific slot

i'm trying to make a banner component to use as SimpleBannerComponent, but i need to override only in a specific slot/section on homepage.
In another pages I will use the default component.
How can I do that?
Thanks for your time.
The best way is to create a new CMS component only for that specific slot/section on homepage, because once you update a component, all its instances will also be updated everywhere.
Documentation on how to create and map a new component can be found on Spartacus Documentation Site.

Vue - Is it better to keep all props in one large mixin

I have a component library where i would like to standardize the props, component etc.
Thoughts on combining them props/methods/other mixins/etx into one larger mixin
All property names would be the same
Remove duplicated code on refactoring to adjust components from local props/methods/computed/ to "global"
Not all components would have need for every piece of data contained within the mixin - point 4
Would tree shaking remove the unused code on Rollup?
Is this a good idea?
If your component library is not constrained to using Vue 2 you might want to take a look at Vue Composition API to share functionality (methods + reactive state) between different components.
Mixins might not be what you really want to be using because you kind of lose information as to what features/props/methods really will be put inside your component without re-checking the mixin code. You also might run into issues when component options get merged by Vue at runtime. Check out these posts for more information:
https://css-tricks.com/how-the-vue-composition-api-replaces-vue-mixins/
https://reactjs.org/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmful.html
As for sharing props: What I've seen just yesterday (but not yet tried!) in a talk by John Leider - creator of Vuetify - is create a function that returns the props you want to reuse between components. Then you just call said function inside your props definition and use the spread operator.

Initialize dynamic Component in Code using Vue.js

I am currently developing a web application that is used to display elements for events on a map provided by HERE Maps. I am using Vue.
I have some components, but the relevant component is the component HereMaps.vue which initializes the map using the HERE Maps Api.
The HERE Maps Api provides the possibility to place so called InfoBubbles on the map showing additional information. These InfoBubbles can be provided some HTML-code in order to customize their appearance.
Please refer to the documentation for additional information
Following the documentation the code looks something like this:
let bubble = new H.ui.InfoBubble(marker.getPosition(), {
content: "<div class='someClass'>Some Content</div>"
});
this.ui.addBubble(bubble)
This is happening after mount in the "mounted" method from Vue in the "HereMaps" component.
The Bubbles are added in a "closed" (hidden) form and dynamically "opened" to reveal their content when the corresponding marker icon on the map is clicked. Therefore the HTML-code is present on the DOM after the component is mounted and is not removed at a later stage.
Now instead of supplying custom code within each bubble added to the UI i want to just add a component like this:
let bubble = new H.ui.InfoBubble(marker.getPosition(), {
content: "<myDynamicComponent></myDynamicComponent>"
});
this.ui.addBubble(bubble)
It does not matter to me wether the component is initialized using props or if it is conditionally rendered depending on the state of a global variable. I just want to be able to use the "myDynamicComponent" in order to customize the appearance in a different file. Otherwise the design process gets very messy.
As far as i know this is not possible or at least i was not able to get it work. This is probably due to the fact that the "myDynamicComponent" is not used within the "template" of the "HereMaps" component und thus Vue does not know that it needs to render something here after the directive is added to the DOM in the "mounted" method.
This is what the InfoBubble looks using normal HTML as an argument:
This is what the InfoBubble looks using the component as an argument:
It appears to just be empty. No content of the "myDynamicComponent" is shown.
Does anyone have any idea how i could solve this problem.
Thank You.
Answer is a bit complicated and I bet you wouldn't like it:)
content param can accept String or Node value. So you can make new Vue with rendered your component and pass root element as content param.
BTW, Vue does not work as you think, <myDynamicComponent></myDynamicComponent> bindings, etc exists in HTML only in compile time. After that all custom elements(components) are compiled to render functions. So you can't use your components in that way.
Give us fiddle with your problem, so we can provide working example:)

Nested components in Vue.js 2

I'm being using Vue.js for some months and it's have been reminding the webforms paradigm, that you used components to make a website or webapp, but with Vue.js it's a pleasure to create such things and not a whole nightmare it was with webforms.
Well, my question is if it's possible making nested components just to define some behavior on it's parent on a markup-way. Example:
<grid prop1="somevalue" prop2="somevalue">
<grid-column prop1="somevalue" prop2="somevalue">
<filter-options prop1="somevalue" prop2="somevalue">
</filter-options>
</grid-column>
</grid>
So, a particular grid component have column and the column hava a filter options.
Don't want to depend stricty to the javascript code.
Thanks in advance
EDIT: Just to add that the childs-component must not have a template. They are just to pass some props to the parent.
To answer your question
if it's possible making nested components just to define some behavior on it's parent on a markup-way
And to keep in mind your request:
Don't want to depend strictly to the JavaScript code.
The answer is no, it is not possible. Components underneath the parent can only push (emit) data to the parent after the DOM loads. So you would need to push a value that would trigger some JavaScript if you wanted to alter the html. Using JavaScript would be the only method though.
To achieve what you are asking I think it makes a lot more sense to use props on the parent component. You have a lot more flexibility and you can make it very versatile.