README.md

feathers-vuex

Integrate the Feathers Client into Vuex

feathers-vuex is a first class integration of the Feathers Client and Vuex. It implements many Redux best practices under the hood, eliminates a lot of boilerplate code, and still allows you to easily customize the Vuex store.

Features

• Fully powered by Vuex & Feathers
• Realtime By Default
• Actions With Reactive Data
• Local Queries
• Fall-Through Caching
• Feathers Query Syntax
• $FeathersVuex Vue Plugin
• Live Queries
• Per-Service Data Modeling
• Clone & Commit
• Vuex Strict Mode
• Per-Record Defaults
• Data Level Computes
• Relation Support

Demo & Documentation

Demo

See https://feathers-vuex.feathers-plus.com/index.html for full documentation.

Installation

npm install feathers-vuex --save

Basic Examples

To setup feathers-vuex, we first need to setup a Feathers Client. Here's an example using the latest @feathersjs npm packages.

feathers-client.js:

import feathers from '@feathersjs/feathers'
import socketio from '@feathersjs/socketio-client'
import auth from '@feathersjs/authentication-client'
import io from 'socket.io-client'

const socket = io('http://localhost:3030', {transports: ['websocket']})

const feathersClient = feathers()
  .configure(socketio(socket))
  .configure(auth({ storage: window.localStorage }))

export default feathersClient

And here's how you would integrate the Feathers Client into the Vuex store:

store/index.js:

import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuex from 'vuex'
import feathersVuex from 'feathers-vuex'
import feathersClient from '../feathers-client'

const { service, auth, FeathersVuex } = feathersVuex(feathersClient, { idField: '_id' })

Vue.use(Vuex)
Vue.use(FeathersVuex)

export default new Vuex.Store({
  plugins: [
    service('todos'),

    // Specify custom options per service
    service('/v1/tasks', {
      idField: '_id', // The field in each record that will contain the id
      nameStyle: 'path', // Use the full service path as the Vuex module name, instead of just the last section
      namespace: 'custom-namespace', // Customize the Vuex module name.  Overrides nameStyle.
      autoRemove: true, // Automatically remove records missing from responses (only use with feathers-rest)
      enableEvents: false, // Turn off socket event listeners. It's true by default
      addOnUpsert: true, // Add new records pushed by 'updated/patched' socketio events into store, instead of discarding them. It's false by default
      skipRequestIfExists: true, // For get action, if the record already exists in store, skip the remote request. It's false by default
      modelName: 'OldTask' // Default modelName would have been 'Task'
    })

    // Add custom state, getters, mutations, or actions, if needed.  See example in another section, below.
    service('things', {
      state: {},
      getters: {},
      mutations: {},
      actions: {}
    })

    // Setup a service with defaults for Model instances
    service('manufacturers', {
      instanceDefaults: {
        name: ''
      }
    })
    // Setup a service with light-weight relational data
    service('models', {
      instanceDefaults: {
        name: '',
        manufacturerId: '',
        manufacturer: 'Manufacturer' // Refers to data (populated on the server) that gets put in the `manufacturers` vuex store.
      }
    })

    // Setup the auth plugin.
    auth({ userService: 'users' })
  ]
})

Contributing

feathers-vuex tests run using StealJS, which is a 100% browser-based bundler.

Once you’ve installed all of the npm packages, start an http-server in the root folder:

cd feathers-vuex

npm i -g http-server

http-server

Then open the resulting page in your browser and navigate to the test folder to run the tests.

License

Copyright (c) Forever and Ever, or at least the current year.

Licensed under the MIT license.