App Vuex Store     

In large applications, state management often becomes complex due to multiple pieces of state scattered across many components and the interactions between them. It is often overlooked that the source of truth in Vue instances is the raw data object - a Vue instance simply proxies access to it. Therefore, if you have a piece of state that should be shared by multiple instances, you should avoid duplicating it and share it by identity.

The recommended way to go if you want components sharing state is Vuex. Take a look at its documentation before diving in. It has a great feature when used along the Vue dev-tools browser extension like Time Travel debugging.

We won’t go into details on how to configure or use Vuex since it has great docs. Instead we’ll just show you what the folder structure looks like when using it on a Quasar project.

.
└── src/
    └── store/               # Vuex Store
        ├── index.js         # Vuex Store definition
        ├── <folder>         # Vuex Store Module...
        └── <folder>         # Vuex Store Module...

By default, if you choose to use Vuex when you create a project folder with Quasar CLI, it will set you up on using Vuex modules. Each sub-folder of /src/store represents a Vuex Module.

If Vuex Modules is too much for your website app, you can change /src/store/index.js and avoid importing any module.

Adding a Vuex Module.

Adding a Vuex Module is made easy by Quasar CLI through the $ quasar new command.

$ quasar new store <store_name>

It will create a folder in /src/store named by “store_name” from the command above. It will contain all the boilerplate that you need.

Let’s say that you want to create a “showcase” Vuex Module. You issue $ quasar new store showcase. You then notice the newly created /src/store/showcase folder, which holds the following files:

.
└── src/
    └── store/
        ├── index.js         # Vuex Store definition
        └── showcase         # Module "showcase"
            ├── index.js     # Gluing the module together
            ├── actions.js   # Module actions
            ├── getters.js   # Module getters
            ├── mutations.js # Module mutations
            └── state.js     # Module state

We’ve created the new Vuex Module, but we haven’t yet informed Vuex to use it. So we edit /src/store/index.js and add a reference to it:

import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuex from 'vuex'

// we first import the module
import showcase from './showcase'

Vue.use(Vuex)

const store = new Vuex.Store({
  modules: {
    // then we reference it
    showcase
  }
})

// if we want some HMR magic for it, we handle
// the hot update like below. Notice we guard this
// code with "process.env.DEV" -- so this doesn't
// get into our production build (and it shouldn't).
if (process.env.DEV && module.hot) {
  module.hot.accept(['./showcase'], () => {
    const newShowcase = require('./showcase').default
    store.hotUpdate({ modules: { showcase: newShowcase } })
  })
}

export default store

Now we can use this Vuex Module in our Vue files. Quick example. Assume we configured “drawerState” into the state and added updateDrawerState mutation.

// src/store/showcase/mutations.js
export const updateDrawerState = (state, opened) => {
  state.drawerState = opened
}

// src/store/showcase/state.js
export default {
  drawerState: true
}

In a Vue file:

<template>
  <div>
    <q-toggle v-model="drawerState" />
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  computed: {
    drawerState: {
      get () {
        return this.$store.state.showcase.drawerState
      },
      set (val) {
        this.$store.commit('showcase/updateDrawerState', val)
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>