Keeping things DRY in Vue.js - vue.js

Question

I've done a couple of projects with React in the last year and I've switched to Vue for my current one, attracted by its greater simplicity, less verbose nature and the fact that you don't have to transpile your code to work, so it's easier to get going with and more flexible (well, to be accurate you don't have to transpile with React either, there's no need to use JSX, but it loses one of its great benefits if you don't).
Anyway, one of the things I'm missing from React (and I'm sure it's just ignorance of the Vue way which is my problem) is a way of reusing a fragment of code to avoid repeating myself in templates. The specific situation which prompted this question was a template where I have a custom input element like this:
<input ref="input" :id='name' :name='name' :type='fieldType' class='form-control' :value="value" :readonly="readonly" :disabled="disabled" #input="handleInput"/>
In certain situations I'd want to wrap it in a div, otherwise I'd want to use it as is. With React, I'd simply store it in a variable, something like this:
var inp=( <input ref="input" :id='name' :name='name' :type='fieldType' class='form-control' :value="value" :readonly="readonly" :disabled="disabled"
#input="handleInput"/>);
Then I could do something like the following:
var myInput;
if(divSituation){
myInput=(<div>{inp}</div>);
} else {
myInput=inp;
}
Then I could use the myInput var. The Vue logic doesn't seem to allow this, though. Unless, of course, using JSX within Vue would allow me to do the very same thing? I currently have for this in Vue something like the following, which offends me:
<template v-if="divSituation">
<div><input ref="input" :id='name' :name='name' :type='fieldType' class='form-control' :value="value" :readonly="readonly" :disabled="disabled" #input="handleInput"/></div>
</template>
<template v-else>
<input ref="input" :id='name' :name='name' :type='fieldType' class='form-control' :value="value" :readonly="readonly" :disabled="disabled" #input="handleInput"/
</template>

Answer 1

You can create vue components for re-usable components, which can be used as par requirement.
You can find an example of re-usable input component in vue docs:
<currency-input v-model="price"></currency-input>
and you can write that as re-usable component like following:
Vue.component('currency-input', {
template: '\
<span>\
$\
<input\
ref="input"\
v-bind:value="value"\
v-on:input="updateValue($event.target.value)"\
>\
</span>\
',
props: ['value'],
methods: {
// Instead of updating the value directly, this
// method is used to format and place constraints
// on the input's value
updateValue: function (value) {
var formattedValue = value
// Remove whitespace on either side
.trim()
// Shorten to 2 decimal places
.slice(0, value.indexOf('.') + 3)
// If the value was not already normalized,
// manually override it to conform
if (formattedValue !== value) {
this.$refs.input.value = formattedValue
}
// Emit the number value through the input event
this.$emit('input', Number(formattedValue))
}
}
})
You can add more props for readonly, disabled, etc.
You can also have a look at custom input elements of element-ui and it's code.
Given the example you have given, You can use v-html more efficiently. with v-html, you can pass a HTML string which will be rendered as HTML. However Note: the contents are inserted as plain HTML - they will not be compiled as Vue templates.
You can have a computed property, which will return HTML string as par your variable: divSituation, like following:
var data = {
templateInput: '<input ref="input" :id="name" :name="name" :type="fieldType" class="form-control" :value="value" :readonly="readonly" :disabled="disabled" #input="handleInput"/>',
divSituation: true,
myInput: ''
}
var demo = new Vue({
el: '#demo',
data: function(){
return data
},
computed: {
getMyInput: function(){
if(this.divSituation){
return this.templateInput
}
else{
return '<div>' + this.templateInput + '</div>'
}
}
}
})
Now you can just render myInput in HTML using v-html like this:
<div id="demo">
<div v-html="getMyInput">
</div>
</div>
check out working fiddle.