How to clear state in vuex store?

Question

My state in vuex store is huge.

Is there a way to reset all the data in state in one go, instead of manually setting everything to null?

Answer 1

If you do a state = {}, you will remove the reactivity of the properties and your getters mutations will suddenly stop working.

you can have a sub-property like:

state: {
  subProperty: {
    a: '',
    lot: '',
    of: '',
    properties: '',
    .
    .
    .
  }
}

Doing a state.subProperty = {} should help, without losing the reactivity.

You should not have a state too big, break them down to different modules and import to your vuex store like so:

import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuex from 'vuex'
import authorization from './modules/authorization'
import profile from './modules/profile'

Vue.use(Vuex)

export const store = new Vuex.Store({
  modules: {
    authorization,
    profile
  }
})

now in your individual files:

// modules/authorization.js
import * as NameSpace from '../NameSpace'
import { someService } from '../../Services/something'

const state = {
  [NameSpace.AUTH_STATE]: {
    auth: {},
    error: null
  }
}

const getters = {
  [NameSpace.AUTH_GETTER]: state => {
    return state[NameSpace.AUTH_STATE]
  }
}

const mutations = {
  [NameSpace.AUTH_MUTATION]: (state, payload) => {
    state[NameSpace.AUTH_STATE] = payload
  },
}

const actions = {
  [NameSpace.ASYNC_AUTH_ACTION]: ({ commit }, payload) => {
    someService.login(payload.username, payload.password)
      .then((user) => {
        commit(NameSpace.AUTH_MUTATION, {auth: user, error: null})
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        commit(NameSpace.AUTH_MUTATION, {auth: [], error: error})
      })
  }
}

export default {
  state,
  getters,
  mutations,
  actions
}

If you should want to clear the state you can just have a mutation implement:

state[NameSpace.AUTH_STATE] = {
  auth: {},
  error: null
}