How to mix Vue components with HTML outside the template - vue.js

Question

Think about a wordpress blog, or a standard CMS with some content. I use a wysiwyg editor (CKEditor) to write my contents and save them to db.
I want to use some Vue components inside this HTML, and so I add a wrapper div to my theme. HTML pages are wrapped by
<div id="#my-custom-app">
...html from server
</div>
Basically I want to add for example
<my-app-image-compare></my-app-image-compare>
using CKEditor inside my HTML, then I will create an app mounted on #my-custom-app div. I will insert the app at the end of the html body.
Vue.app file doesn't have a template, the template is basically my HTML page written with CKEditor, but every component is loaded and defined by the app and every component has a template.
How can I do? Is there a way to have a main Vue app file without a defined template?

Answer 1

Option 1:
First create a vue container on a basic template. This template will then load a component which gets your data from the sever and displays it, so:
// This is your main vue instance container
<div id="#my-custom-app">
<dynamic-html v-if="myHtmlFromServer" template="myHtmlFromServer"></dynamic-html>
</div>
Within this main component, you need to hook up created event and populate myHtmlFromServer with your HTML content from the editor.
import DynamicHtml from './myComponents/DynamicHtml'
new Vue({
el: '#my-custom-app',
data () {
return {
myHtmlFromServer: ''
}
},
components: {
DynamicHtml
}
created () {
// this.myHtmlFromServer = this.getDataFromServer()
}
})
The <dynamic-html> component, would have props: ['template'] and on the created event would assign this.$options.template = this.template.
This option will set the HTML template of that component and allow Vue to render it as normal (meaning you can then do {{someVal}} in your CKEditor.
Option 2:
Another option is if you're using a server side language like PHP, then you could just put that html on the page i.e echo $myHtmlContent and as long as that content contains <div id="#my-custom-app"> you Vue instance will mount. PHP will add the HTML to the page before the JS processes the page so it'll just work.