Cannot read property 'focus' of undefined in VUE When setting focus to button - vue.js

Question

I am new to vue I have component which if the endpoint fails, calls my generic 'Error' modal. All this is working fine but I keep getting the following error:
Cannot read property 'focus' of undefined
This only happens for the else part of my method function.
For this specific issue is I my 'failedPrcess' equals any of the following, this is when I get is, all others are fine:
existOrderSearchProdOrders
stockSearchStockLevels
cartFetchCouriers
Code
<template>
<div class="modal fade danger-modal" id="errorModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="errorModalTitle" aria-hidden="true"
data-keyboard="false" data-backdrop="static" style="z-index: 99999">
<div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered" role="document">
<div class="modal-content danger-modal-content">
<div class="modal-header danger-modal-headerfooter">An error has occurred</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<p v-if="failedProcess === 'appGetAccount' || failedProcess === 'existOrderSearchProdOrders' || failedProcess === 'stockSearchStockLevels'
|| failedProcess === 'cartFetchCouriers'">
{{ contactTxt | capitalize }}
</p>
<p v-else-if="errorCount < 3">If the error continues, {{ contactTxt }}</p>
<p v-else>As the error has continued, {{ contactTxt }}</p>
<p>
<b>
01234 567890
<br />
Open from 00:00 to 07:00
</b>
</p>
<p>Advising of what you were doing when the error occurred.</p>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer danger-modal-headerfooter">
<a v-if="failedProcess === 'appGetAccount'" ref="logoutButton" class="btn btn-primary" :class="logoutButtClicked" #click="logoutClicked = true" href="/site/logout">
<span v-if="!logoutClicked" id="logoutButtonLabel">Logout</span>
<span v-else id="logoutSpinner">
<span class="spinner-border spinner-border-sm" role="status" aria-hidden="true"></span>
Logging out
</span>
</a>
<router-link v-else-if="failedProcess === 'fetchOrderReportDetails'" to="/review" tag="button"
ref="existOrdersButton" class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-dismiss="modal" #click.native="closeButton">
Return to existing orders
</router-link>
<button v-else-if="errorCount < 3 && (failedProcess !== 'productsFetchProducts' && failedProcess !== 'existOrderSearchProdOrders'
&& failedProcess !== 'stockSearchStockLevels' && failedProcess !== 'cartFetchCouriers')" ref="closeButton" class="btn btn-primary"
type="button" data-dismiss="modal" #click="closeButton">
Close
</button>
<router-link v-else to="/" tag="button" ref="homeButton" class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-dismiss="modal" #click="closeButton">
Return to homepage
</router-link>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import * as params from '../params';
export default {
name: "ErrorModal",
data() {
return {
contactTxt: 'please contact us on:',
errorCount: 0,
failedProcess: '',
}
},
mounted() {
VueEvent.$on('show-error-modal', (failedProcess) => {
if (this.failedProcess !== failedProcess) {
this.errorCount = 0;
}
this.failedProcess = failedProcess;
$('#errorModal').modal('show').on('shown.bs.modal', this.focus);
});
},
methods: {
focus() {
if (this.failedProcess === 'appGetAccount') {
this.$refs.logoutButton.focus();
} else if (this.failedProcess === 'fetchOrderReportDetails') {
this.$refs.existOrdersButton.$el.focus();
} else if (this.errorCount < 3 && this.failedProcess !== 'productsFetchProducts') {
this.$refs.closeButton.focus();
} else {
this.$refs.homeButton.$el.focus();
}
},
}
}
</script>`enter code here`

Answer 1

I've tried using v-if before and I also had similar problems and the best solution I found was, instead of using v-if/v-else-if/v-else, use v-show instead to perform conditional rendering.
Also, as the Vue.js doc says:
Generally speaking, v-if has higher toggle costs while v-show has higher initial render costs. So prefer v-show if you need to toggle something very often, and prefer v-if if the condition is unlikely to change at runtime.