How to scroll HTML page to given anchor?

Question

I’d like to make the browser to scroll the page to a given anchor, just by using JavaScript.

I have specified a name or id attribute in my

Answer 1

a vue2 solution ... add simple data property to simply force the update

  const app = new Vue({ 
  ... 

  , updated: function() {
           this.$nextTick(function() {
           var uri = window.location.href
           var anchor = ( uri.indexOf('#') === -1 ) ? '' : uri.split('#')[1]
           if ( String(anchor).length > 0 && this.updater === 'page_load' ) {
              this.updater = "" // only on page-load !
              location.href = "#"+String(anchor)
           }
         })
        }
     });
     app.updater = "page_load"

 /* smooth scrolling in css - works in html5 only */
 html, body {
     scroll-behavior: smooth;
 }