A class based Vue 3 template

I was missing the class based syntax I was used to from Vue 2 where I heavily used vue-class-component.

This template sets you up so that you can write your components in such a fashion with Vue 3:

<template>
    <div class="container">
        <h1>{{ msg }}</h1>
        <button type="button" @click="increment()"> Counter is at: {{ count }}</button>
    </div>
</template>

<script lang="ts">
import { Component, Prop, Vue } from 'vue-facing-decorator';

@Component({ components: {  } })
export default class HelloWorld extends Vue 
{
    @Prop({default: "Default message!"}) 
    msg!: string;
    
    count = 0;
    
    increment()
    {
        this.count++;
    }
}
</script>

<style scoped>
    ...
</style>

This repo gives you a fresh start with class components in Vue 3 based on the awesome vue-facing-decorator-project. To learn more and get some code samples look here:

vue-facing decorator

Getting started

Pretty straighforward. Clone this repository, do an npm install and start your vite dev-server with npm run dev. Your app should be listening on localhost:3000.

A word on debugging

Initial setup

This repo is set up for VSCode and includes a launch.json configured to attach to a running edge instance launched with the --remote-debugging-port=9222 flag. I am working heavily with the Edge Tools for VSCode as they make the dev experience seamless - hence the setup.

Debugging issues with HMR

Vite's HMR breaks your breakpoints. Once you hit save and vite replaces a module your breakpoints will stop. To hit the breakpoints properly again you need to unfortunately do a full page reload. Then breakpoints work again until you do the next change. You can disable HMR in the vite config, hwever this is not an option for me and I found occasional reloading to be a bearable workaround.