Vuejs mount the child components only after data has been loaded

Question

What am trying to achieve is to pass data as props in my children components but this data is loaded from the server so it takes a while to load.

I would now like to

Answer 1

Just Bind key to child-cmp you get reactive output. this is simplest method of reactivity in Vue js.

<template>
  <child-cmp :key="childdata" :value="childdata"></child-cmp>
</template>

<script>
  export default{
    data(){
       childdata : [];
     },

     methods:{
      fetchINitData(){
        //fetch from server then
         this.childdata = res.data.items;
         console.log(res.data.items) //has some values
       }
     }

   components:{
     childcmp
    },

   mounted(){
     this.fetchINitData();
     }
    }
 </script>

Answer 2

Use <template v-if="childDataLoaded">,And load your child component after getting data like this

<template>
  <template v-if="childDataLoaded">
    <child-cmp :value="childdata"></child-cmp>
  </template>
</template>

<script>
  export default{
    data(){
        childDataLoaded: false,
        childdata : [];
     },
     methods:{
      fetchINitData(){
        //fetch from server then
         this.childdata = res.data.items;
         this.childDataLoaded = true;
         console.log(res.data.items) //has some values
       }
     }
   components:{
     childcmp
    },
   mounted(){
     this.fetchINitData();
     }
    }
 </script>

Here is the Nice and cleaner way to update child component.

var child = Vue.extend({
    template: "<div>Child Component : {{name}} <div v-if='loading'>Loading...</div></div>",
    props: ['name','loading']
});
var app = new Vue({
    el: "#vue-instance",
    data: {
        name: "Niklesh",
        loading: true
    },
    mounted() {
    		var vm =  this;
    		setTimeout(function() {
        	vm.name = "Raut";
          vm.loading = false;
				}, 1000);
    },
    components: {
        child
    },
})

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/2.5.1/vue.js"></script>
<div id="vue-instance">
    <child :name="name" :loading="loading"></child>
</div>