How you do you call a method once rendering is done in Vue? - vue.js

Question

I have am building a Vue app that includes a QuillJS editor in a tab. I have a simple setTab(tabName) Vue method that shows/hides tabs with the v-if directive.
methods: {
setTab: function (tabName) {
this.view = tabName;
if(tabName === 'compose') {
var editor = new Quill('#editor', {
modules: { toolbar: '#toolbar' },
theme: 'snow'
});
}
}
}
My tab is basically like this:
<div id="composer" v-if="tabName === 'compose'">
<!-- toolbar container -->
<div id="toolbar">
<button class="ql-bold">Bold</button>
<button class="ql-italic">Italic</button>
</div>
<!-- editor container -->
<div id="editor">
<p>Hello World!</p>
</div>
</div>
Currently, I'm getting an error because the #editor element does not yet exist when I am calling new Quill(...). How do I delay that QuillJS initialization on the page so that it doesn't happen until after the #editor is already there?

Answer 1

Use mounted hook.
mounted: function () {
// Code that will run only after the
// entire view has been rendered
}

Answer 2

Use this.$nextTick() to defer a callback to be executed after the next DOM update cycle (e.g., after changing a data property that causes a render-update).
For example, you could do this:
methods: {
setTab: function (tabName) {
this.view = tabName;
if(tabName === 'compose') {
this.$nextTick(() => {
var editor = new Quill('#editor', {
modules: { toolbar: '#toolbar' },
theme: 'snow'
});
})
}
}
}

Answer 3

A clean way to do this is not to rely on selectors but make Quill editor a self-contained component:
<template>
<div class="quill-editor">
<!-- toolbar container -->
<div ref="toolbar">
<button class="ql-bold">Bold</button>
<button class="ql-italic">Italic</button>
</div>
<!-- editor container -->
<div ref="editor">
<p>Hello World!</p>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
...
name: "QuillEditor",
mounted() {
this.quill = new Quill(this.$refs.editor, {
modules: { toolbar: this.$refs.toolbar },
theme: 'snow'
});
}
...
</script>