Vue

Using PatternFly Elements in your Vue app

To get web components to work with Vue, it’s pretty easy and straightforward. If you’d like to follow along, go ahead and create a new Vue CodeSandbox on codesandbox.io. The Vue sandbox uses the vue-cli to scaffold an app and you can view your changes in real-time right in the web app. With CodeSandbox, you can also add any npm dependency with just a few button clicks. If you want to run this app locally, you can clone the repository on GitHub.

“Using PatternFly Elements in your Vue App” is broken down into four sections

• Initial setup
• Adding PatternFly Elements
• Interacting with our web components API
• Adding icing on the cake

Each section will show you exactly what you need to do with code snippets and an accompanying CodeSandbox that you can edit or fork.

Initial setup

Add these two lines at the top of the main.js file in the /src/ directory.

import Vue from "vue";
import App from "./App.vue";

Adding PatternFly Elements

With the setup complete, let’s add a couple of PatternFly Elements web components to our application to make sure everything is hooked up properly. We’re going to add a card (pf-card). Later, we’ll add an accordion (pf-accordion) and some CSS to help with our layout.

Once again, if we were building this app locally, we’d install our dependencies from npm.

npm install --save @patternfly/elements

But if you’re using CodeSandbox, just search for “@patternfly/pf-card”

In our HelloWorld.vue file in the /src/components/ directory, let’s add the import statements for our components to the top of the <script> tag in the file.

<script>
  import "@patternfly/elements/pf-card/pf-card.js";
  export default {
name: "HelloWorld",
props: {
msg: String
}
  };
</script>

Let’s add some simple markup in the template section of the HellowWorld.vue file to see that our pf-card is working.

<template>
  <div>
<h1>PatternFly Elements with Vue</h1>
<pf-card>
<img alt="From https://picsum.photos/" src="https://picsum.photos/id/1019/300/200">
<p>
  This is the light pf-card and
  <a href="#">a link</a>.
</p>
<p>
  Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high
  level overviews. Iterative approaches to corporate strategy
  foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value
  proposition.
</p>
<p>
  Organically grow the holistic world view of disruptive
  innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
</p>
<pf-button slot="footer" variant="link" href="#">Learn more</pf-button>
</pf-card>
  </div>
</template>

Below is the accompanying CodeSandbox to see that our initial setup is correct and that we’ve successfully added our web components to our app.