Open a Vuetify dialog from a component template in VueJS

Question

I\'m using the VueJS Vuetify framework and I need to open a dialog - that gets imported as a component template - from another template. Once the Menu butto

Answer 1

No event bus needed and v-model

Update:

When I first answered this, I posted my answer as a "workaround", since it didn't felt completely "right" at the time and I was new to Vue.js. I wanted to open or close the dialog by using a v-model directive, but I couldn't get there. After a time I found how to do this in the docs, using the input event and the value property, and here's how I think it should be done without an event bus.

Parent component:

Child component (ScheduleForm):

Original answer:

I was able to work around this without the need for a global event bus.

I used a computed property with a getter AND a setter. Since Vue warns you about mutating the parent property directly, in the setter I simply emitted an event to the parent.

Here's the code:

Parent component:

Child component (ScheduleForm):