Using events for child-parent communication
We have already seen that props are used to pass data from a parent component to a child component. To pass data from a child component back to a parent component, Vue offers custom events.
In a component, we can emit an event using the $emit
method; with this.$emit('eventName', payload)
within <script>
; or just with $emit
within the template
section.
Assuming we have got a reactive instance property, this.message
, we could emit a send
event with the message
value in the script
section using this.$emit
. This could be the basis for a MessageEditor
component:
<script> export default {   data () {         return {             message: null         }     },   methods: {     send() {       ...