Vuejs can't access refs from component

Question

I am trying to get the canvas element which is inside a template of a component, found great documentations for vuejs1 but not for vuejs2 where "ref" is the only w

Answer 1

To point at vue instance to self variable worked for me, info source

created() {
    let self = this;
    console.log(self.$refs.icanvas);
},