VueLink - One component to link them all!
Lightweight wrapper component for external and vue-router links.
🔥 Features
- Tiny functional component
- SSR-safe (works with Nuxt.js)
- Well tested and documented
- Compatible with Node 8.0+
- Vue (and vue-router) as the only dependencies
- Highly customizable
🔎 Getting started
📦 Through NPM
$ npm install vue-link
Synchronous import
import VueLink from 'vue-link'
// or the slash-forcing variants
// import { VueLink, VueLinkAddSlash, VueLinkStripSlash } from 'vue-link'
export default {
components: {
VueLink
}
}Async import
export default {
components: {
VueLink: () => import('vue-link')
}
}🔗 ❌ Using a CDN
Sorry! No CDN available for VueLink right now.
🛠️ Usage
Handling
Before going into detail, keep in mind that you can customize the component
as you can do it with a normal <a> or <router-link>/<nuxt-link> tag.
All props will be passed down to the internal implementation of vue-link
in case the link is not external.
Link detection
If the passed link starts with http, it'll be treated as external link.
You can use the external prop to force treating it as external link as well.
Prop overview
| Prop | External only? | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| to | The target of the link. If not set, the link will not be bound (no "empty href") | |
| rel | Will be passed as rel attribute to the anchor tag |
|
| newTab | If truthy, set target attribute to _blank |
|
| target | Will be passed as target attribute to the anchor tag |
|
| slashes | Internal only! | Settings: 'strip', 'add' or false(default). Will force slash endings to either strip or add trailing slashes to your url (/a -> /a/ in add mode, vice-versa in strip. Only for internal links! Also, this will not take query strings into account. Please use router-link's query option for them |
| external | Force to treat the link as external link (use anchor instead of vue-router tag) |
Types
With v1.4.0 two extra components were introduced that reflect the slashes settings.
You can import them (like the normal VueLink component as named imports).
The default export of the package is still the normal VueLink component so no breaking changes
have been introduced.
Since v1.6.0, a dedicated ForNuxt export is available that'll use NuxtLink instead of RouterLink under the hood
import { VueLink, VueLinkAddSlash, VueLinkStripSlash, ForNuxt } from '../lib'
Example usage
<vue-link
:to="`/feed.xml`"
:external="true"
:new-tab="true"
class="block mt-4 lg:inline-block lg:mt-0 w-6 h-6 mr-6 no-underline">
This is the link text ;)
</vue-link>⚙️ Contributing
Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md
📑 License
MIT License - Copyright (c) Developmint - Alexander Lichter