List of same components with same functions - code bloat? - vue.js

I'm using Vue and I wonder if I have a list of components (50 button with the very same function within each one of them) - will Vue recognize it as a repetetive code and reduce to one function that all those 50 button will use or each one will compile it's own function while bundling?

will Vue recognize it as a repetetive code and reduce to one..
No. Vue will not scan your code for similar code and try to optimize it.
However, when Vue is updating a list of elements rendered with v-for, by default it uses an “in-place patch” strategy. If the order of the data items has changed, instead of moving the DOM elements to match the order of the items, Vue will patch each element in-place and make sure it reflects what should be rendered at that particular index.
Maybe this is what you are confused with? This is not the same as the question you are asking, but the closest thing vue would do "magically".
If you have 50 similar buttons, I would advice you to rather take advantage of props, slots and slot scopes to only have one button component that you can tweek in place where you need them to be different. 50 alike buttons sounds like a bad pattern.

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Vue3 computed property in parent child component structure not working

After trying to find solution to this issue for hours on various forums i am posting this here.
So i have two components. 1) App and 2) Todo. Both renderes a list and i can complete items so there will be two lists one for incomplete items and one for complete items. you can click on item and it will be gone to complete items list.
So in my example you can see i am using same component but with two diffreent ways to give data to component. one using API and one using native js Data. in both cases it renderes but with api i can click on list item and it will be gone to completed list but with javascript array example it doesn't work. i am completely amazed with this because component is same. how it can affect like that.
many answer here do tell me that computed properties are not reactive as they are cached but what’s the solution to that ? i can put data variable but then the first case of api will not work because time it takes to fetch it. so please help me with this one.
complete code at sfc playground
You have reactivity issues the computed property probably expects that value to be constant because you provide a non-reactive array from the parent.
I think you have 2 options here:
you either provide a reactive prop from parent
or you set a local data attribute in the child-component so that vue will know that it can change
Your fiddle didn't work for me so I copied your code to codesandbox, I have both examples there but commented out the first solution, there you basically simply add the array to the data object and reference that in the code.
Second solution you can add a mounted hook to define reactiveAssignments to your data in the child component this way it will have the same reference so that's why it would work that way.
I think the first solution is simpler, but it is really up to which one you prefer.
You can check the solutions here in my codesanbox
A better approach could be though by setting up component events instead of v-models in the child you should use it in the parent because this way you are directly modifying the props. You can read more about this here: https://vuejs.org/guide/components/events.html#usage-with-v-model

Vue slot is not working in rare and unpredictable cases (potential vue bug?)

I have this weird bug with a slot that is unreliable in certain unknown cases.
Components
There are 3 hierarchical components.
The grandchild (headlessTable), which offers a slot named arrayValue.
The child (collapsableCard), which passes the slot between grandchild and parent.
The parent (orderDataCard), who decides to render a link for that slot.
Problem: Instead of rendering the link of the parent, the default slot html of the child is being rendered when new data is loaded.
Datastructure (orderDetails)
process (obj)
mark (string)
common (obj)
additionalArguments (array)
category (string)
type (string)
name (string)
value (string)
salesOrganisation (obj)
invoices (array)
invoiceAgreementId (string)
paymentType (string)
Reproduction
Stackblitz or Codesandbox
Please look at the field additionalArguments, it contains a link.
Press ALT+M to simulate fetching new data. Now, instead of rendering a link, the default slot html for that named slot is rendered instead.
You can press ALT+J to load the original data, but this time there's no link.
Initial data (ALT+J)
Loaded data (ALT+M)
Type
Equal value
mark
str
false
common
common
obj
true
salesOrganisation
salesOrganisation
obj
true
invoices (empty)
invoices
arr
false
How 2 resolve
if you uncomment line 68 in app.js (or line 73 in App.vue if you're on codesandbox), which is the field called mark
if invoices is not initially empty in app.js
if mark is removed from html in orderDataCard
if salesOrganisation is removed from html in orderDataCard
if the html in the v-for template section for invoiceItems is empty in orderDataCard
Obviously, these are not solutions.
Notes
In any case, there is no dependence or anything between any of the fields, so it's hard for me to understand why this happens and I suspect this to be a bug with vue. I already created an issue for this. However, devs won't look at the reproduction, because they think it's not minimal as #lines > 100. As soon as I delete any more meaningful lines, the bug is resolved and the removed code is not faulty, so it's very frustrating to work on this. I could still remove lines that are not meaningful, but that would make it more difficult for everyone involved to understand what data is being rendered.
Is anyone able to acknowledge the fact that this is a problem with vue and that the code is not reducible OR (I would prefer this) is anyone able to fix this?
The problem is linked to Vue handling of multiple instances of the same component. In OrderDataCard.vue you have two instances of Collapsable-Card without unique keys. In this case:
Vue uses an algorithm that minimizes element movement and tries to
patch/reuse elements of the same type in-place as much as possible.
I don't quite know how these algorithms work, and why, apparently, it reused the second instance (without a defined slot content), but, setting a unique key for these components solved the issue.
See the working code sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/admiring-hamilton-5ytpp?file=/src/components/OrderDataCard.vue:133-149.
Note: I couldn't trigger keyboard events in my browser, so I triggered them on button click.
This may not be the solution, but could help find it:
Objects
I noticed you are working with objects and turning them into arrays. Objects properties can be problematic to work with, because unlike arrays updated properties are not propagated. This is a problem with JavaScript, not Vue. Vue was only possible because of observers introduced, but objects are still not part of that.
You might run into problems when an object is partially updated.
I would suggest looking at Vue.set.
Old code of mine invokes it explicitly by window.Vue.set() for changes in object properties so Vue can propagate them correctly.
That is kind of a bug in Vue, but again stems from JavaScript itself.
Computed arrays
I'm not entirely sure but the computed arrays don't save the above issue with working with objects.
I would go the safe route and use Vue.set() when updating objects and object properties. You can still use the computed arrays then.
Otherwise the obvious: Make real arrays out of the objects instead of working with objects half the time.
this.process
Is there a good reason you are using this.process explicitly instead of the component's props? Or is that a component from a library?
Slots
Have you tried the exact same code but without using the collapsable-card? Just output the link itself? It might point to slot problems in the collapsable-card component. Maybe also partially because of the objects thing from above.

How to improve performance while using dynamic components in vue?

Context:
Currently, I am working on a complex editor application which uses vuex state, vuetify's expansion panel and vue's dynamic component. Each dynamic component uses data which is accepted as props and has its own nested components.
Problem:
The issue with this approach is as the app deals with the large, nested state, the add operation in the UI slows down and makes the UI unusable.
Note:
In the example, I have added 1000 objects just to replicate the issue. Unfortunately cannot use pagination here.
Is there any other way to approach this problem to improve the performance, any suggestions would be helpful.
Issue:
Codesandbox - Demo
Codesandbox - Edit
You are using index as your key and at the same time adding new item to the beginning of the array using unshift - which means every time the new item is added, all components needs to be rerendered. Use :key="item.name" instead and you will see huge speed improvement on adding new items...
Initial render is another problem - if the pagination is not an option, you can look at some virtual list solutions which do render only part of the list visible and make scrolling effective by reusing existing components. One example is vue-virtual-scroller. Vuetify itself has it's own implementation but I'm not sure how well it will work with expansion panel considering this note in the documentation:
We are in the process of integrating the v-virtual-scroll component into existing features and components. If you are interested in helping, please reach out to John Leider in the Discord Community.
(Also it seems you are using really old version of Vuetify...)

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.

When to create a component? - Vue.js

I get all the concept of components but one thing I am stuck at is - when to create a component? In other words, what part of the page should be a component?
Link to sample problem image
Taking above image as example, what I think is progress bar can be one component and form, quotes list, blue alert can be second component.
Please advise as necessary.
There can be many reasons for creating components, such as when you need to create a reusable element, splitting the code to make it easier to understand and reduce code complexity.
In your case 1. you can put both of the sections into a single component or you can put them into separate components if you want to reuse them somewhere. 2. if your code is too much and you want to make it simpler to understand in that case you can also create separate components.