Vuejs and Vue.set(), update array

ghz 1years ago ⋅ 4657 views

Question

I'm new to Vuejs. Made something, but I don't know it's the simple / right way.

what I want

I want some dates in an array and update them on a event. First I tried Vue.set, but it dind't work out. Now after changing my array item:

this.items[index] = val;
this.items.push();

I push() nothing to the array and it will update.. But sometimes the last item will be hidden, somehow... I think this solution is a bit hacky, how can I make it stable?

Simple code is here:

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
  	f: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    items: [
      "10-03-2017",
      "12-03-2017"
    ]
  },
  methods: {
    
    cha: function(index, item, what, count) {
    	console.log(item + " index > " + index);
      val = moment(this.items[index], this.f).add(count, what).format(this.f);
  		this.items[index] = val;
      this.items.push();
      console.log("arr length:  " + this.items.length);
    }
  }
})


ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}


<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/1.0.11/vue.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.6/moment.min.js"></script>
<div id="app">
  <ul>
    <li v-for="(index, item) in items">
    <br><br>
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', -1)">
      - day</button>
      {{ item }}
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', 1)">
      + day</button>
    <br><br>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer

VueJS can't pickup your changes to the state if you manipulate arrays like this.

As explained in [Common Beginner Gotchas](https://vuejs.org/2016/02/06/common- gotchas/), you should use array methods like push, splice or whatever and never modify the indexes like this a[2] = 2 nor the .length property of an array.

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    f: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    items: [
      "10-03-2017",
      "12-03-2017"
    ]
  },
  methods: {

    cha: function(index, item, what, count) {
      console.log(item + " index > " + index);
      val = moment(this.items[index], this.f).add(count, what).format(this.f);

      this.items.$set(index, val)
      console.log("arr length:  " + this.items.length);
    }
  }
})


ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}


<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/1.0.11/vue.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.6/moment.min.js"></script>
<div id="app">
  <ul>
    <li v-for="(index, item) in items">
      <br><br>
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', -1)">
      - day</button> {{ item }}
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', 1)">
      + day</button>
      <br><br>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>
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