vue bestpractice api handling - vue.js

Question

Been reading the docs and googling around for best practice to handle api calls in bigger projects without luck (or ateast not what Im searching for).
I want to create a service / facade for the backend that I can load in every component that needs it. For exampel.
I want to fetch historical data for weather in a service so in every component I need this I can just load the weather-serivce and use a getter to fetch the wanted data. I would like to end up with something like below. But I dosent get it to work. So I wonder, what is best practice for this in vue.js?
import WeatherFacade from './data/WeatherFacade.vue'
export default {
name: 'Chart',
created () {
console.log(WeatherFacade.getWeather())
},
components: {
WeatherFacade
}
}
ps. using vue 2.1.10

Answer 1

It could be easily done by creating some external object that will hold those data and module bundling.What I usually do in my projects is that I create services directory and group them in order I want.
Let's break it down - services/WeatherFascade.js (using VueResource)
import Vue from 'vue'
export default {
getWeather() {
return Vue.http.get('api/weather')
}
}
If you have to pass some dynamic data such as ID, pass it as just parameter
import Vue from 'vue'
export default {
getWeather(id) {
return Vue.http.get(`api/weather/${id}`)
}
}
Then in your component you can import this service, pass parameters (if you have them) and got data back.
import WeatherFascade from '../services/WeatherFascade'
export default {
data() {
return {
weatherItems: []
}
},
created() {
this.getWeatherData()
},
methods: {
getWeatherData() {
WeatherFascade.getWather(// you can pass params here)
.then(response => this.weatherItems = response.data)
.catch(error => console.log(error))
}
}
}
You can use any library for that you like, for instance axios is cool.