What are Vue JS events with examples?

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What are VUE JS events, in this session, we will learn about Vue JS events with examples?

Vue JS – Events

Vue JS event types are following:

Click Event.
Event Modifiers.
Event – Key Modifiers.
Custom Events.

Click Event

Example
<html>
   <head>
      <title>VueJs Instance</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src = "js/vue.js"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <div id = "databinding">
         <button v-on:click = "displaynumbers">Click ME</button>
         <h2> Add Number 100 + 200 = {{total}}</h2>
      </div>
      <script type = "text/javascript">
         var vm = new Vue({
            el: '#databinding',
            data: {
               num1: 100,
               num2 : 200,
               total : ''
            },
            methods : {
               displaynumbers : function(event) {
                  console.log(event);
                  return this.total =  this.num1+ this.num2;
               }
            },
         });
      </script>
   </body>
</html>

Output

Event Modifiers

.once

Once allows the event to execute only once.

Syntax
<button v-on:click.once = "buttonclicked">Click Once</button>

Now, we need to add dot operator while calling the modifiers as shown in the syntax above.

To understand the working of the once modifier, let us use it in an example.

Example
<html>
   <head>
      <title>VueJs Instance</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src = "js/vue.js"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <div id = "databinding">
         <button v-on:click.once = "buttonclickedonce" v-bind:style = "styleobj">Click Once</button>
         Output:{{clicknum}}
         <br/><br/>
         <button v-on:click = "buttonclicked"  v-bind:style = "styleobj">Click Me</button>
         Output:{{clicknum1}}
      </div>
      <script type = "text/javascript">
         var vm = new Vue({
            el: '#databinding',
            data: {
               clicknum : 0,
               clicknum1 :0,
               styleobj: {
                  backgroundColor: '#2196F3!important',
                  cursor: 'pointer',
                  padding: '8px 16px',
                  verticalAlign: 'middle',
               }
            },
            methods : {
               buttonclickedonce : function() {
                  this.clicknum++;
               },
               buttonclicked : function() {
                  this.clicknum1++;
               }
            }
         });
      </script>
   </body>
</html>

Output

We have created two buttons in the above given example. This is the way the buttons are defined. The button with Click Once label has added the once modifier and the other button is without any modifier.

<button v-on:click.once = "buttonclickedonce" v-bind:style = "styleobj">Click Once</button>
<button v-on:click = "buttonclicked"  v-bind:style = "styleobj">Click Me</button>

The first button calls the method “buttonclickedonce” and the second button calls the method “buttonclicked”.

buttonclickedonce : function() {
   this.clicknum++;
},
buttonclicked : function() {
   this.clicknum1++;
}

Event – Key Modifiers

VueJS offers key modifiers which are based on which we can control the event handling.

Now, Let assume we have a textbox and we want the method to be called only when we press Enter. We can do so by adding key modifiers to the events as follows.

Syntax
<input type = "text"  v-on:keyup.enter = "showinputvalue"/>

We can make use of multiple keynames with the help of, V-on.keyup.ctrl.enter

Example
<html>
   <head>
      <title>VueJs Instance</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src = "js/vue.js"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <div id = "databinding">
         <input type = "text" v-on:keyup.enter = "showinputvalue" v-bind:style = "styleobj" placeholder = "Enter your name"/>
         <h3> {{name}}</h3>
      </div>
      <script type = "text/javascript">
         var vm = new Vue({
            el: '#databinding',
            data: {
               name:'',
               styleobj: {
                  width: "30%",
                  padding: "12px 20px",
                  margin: "8px 0",
                  boxSizing: "border-box"
               }
            },
            methods : {
               showinputvalue : function(event) {
                  this.name=event.target.value;
               }
            }
         });
      </script>
   </body>
</html>

Output

when we type something in the textbox and press enter we will see it displayed as shown.

Custom Events

The parent component can listen to the child component event using v-on attribute. We can use custom events to tell the parent when there are changes in the child component

Example
<html>
   <head>
      <title>VueJs Instance</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src = "js/vue.js"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <div id = "databinding">
         <div id = "counter-event-example">
            <p style = "font-size:25px;">Language displayed : <b>{{ languageclicked }}</b></p>
            <button-counter
            v-for = "(item, index) in languages"
            v-bind:item = "item"
            v-bind:index = "index"
            v-on:showlanguage = "languagedisp"></button-counter>
         </div>
      </div>
      <script type = "text/javascript">
         Vue.component('button-counter', {
            template: '<button v-on:click = "displayLanguage(item)"><span style = "font-size:25px;">{{ item }}</span></button>',
            data: function () {
               return {
                  counter: 0
               }
            },
            props:['item'],
            methods: {
               displayLanguage: function (lng) {
                  console.log(lng);
                  this.$emit('showlanguage', lng);
               }
            },
         });
         var vm = new Vue({
            el: '#databinding',
            data: {
               languageclicked: "",
               languages : ["Java", "PHP", "C++", "C", "Javascript", "C#", "Python", "HTML"]
            },
            methods: {
               languagedisp: function (a) {
                  this.languageclicked = a;
               }
            }
         })
      </script>
   </body>
</html>