@nuxt/components

Module to scan and auto import components for Nuxt 2.13+

Features
Usage
Dynamic Components
Lazy Imports
Overwriting Components
Directories
Directory Properties
Library authors
License

Features

Automatically scan components/ directory
No need to manually import components anymore
Multiple paths with customizable prefixes and lookup/ignore patterns
Lazy loading (Async components)
Production code-splitting optimization (loader)
Hot reloading
Module integration (library authors)
Fully tested

Usage

Set the components option in nuxt.config:

export default {
  components: true
}

Note: If using nuxt 2.10...2.13, you have to also manually install and add @nuxt/components to buildModules inside nuxt.config.

Create your components:

| components/
---| ComponentFoo.vue
---| ComponentBar.vue

Use them whenever you want, they will be auto imported in .vue files :

<template>
  <ComponentFoo />
  <component-bar />
</template>

No need anymore to manually import them in the script section!

See live demo or video example.

Lazy Imports

Nuxt by default does code-slitting per page and components. But sometimes we also need to lazy load them:

Component size is rather big (or has big dependencies imported) like a text-editor
Component is rendered conditionally with v-if or being in a modal

In order to lazy load) a componenet, all we need is adding Lazy prefix to component name.

You are now being able to easily import a component on-demand:

<template>
  <LazyComponentFoo v-if="foo" />
  <button @click="loadFoo">
    Load Foo
  </button>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  data () {
    return {
      foo: null
    }
  },
  methods: {
    async loadFoo () {
      this.foo = await this.$axios.$get('foo')
    }
  }
}
</script>

Nested Components

If you have components in nested directories:

| components/
---| my/
---| form/
------| TextArea.vue

The component name will contain it's path:

<MyFormTextArea />

For clarity, it is recommend that component file name matching it's name. You can also use MyFormTextArea.vue as name with same directory structure.

If for any reason different prefix is desired, we can add specific directory with the prefix option: (See directories section)

components: [
  '~/components/',
  { path: '~/components/foo/', prefix: 'foo' }
]

Overwriting Components

It is possible to have a way to overwrite components using the level option. This is very useful for modules and theme authors.

Considering this structure:

| node_modules/
---| my-theme/
------| components/
---------| Header.vue
| components/
---| Header.vue

Then defining in the nuxt.config:

components: [
  '~/components', // default level is 0
  { path: 'node_modules/my-theme/components', level: 1 }
]

Our components/Header.vue will overwrites our theme component since the lowest level overwrites.

Directories

By setting components: true, default ~/components directory will be included. However you can customize module behaviour by providing directories to scan:

export default {
  components: [
    '~/components', // shortcut to { path: '~/components' }
    { path: '~/components/awesome/', prefix: 'awesome' }
  ],
}

Each item can be either string or object. String is shortcut to { path }.

Note: Don't worry about ordering or overlapping directories! Components module will take care of it. Each file will be only matched once with longest path.

Directory Properties

path

Required
Type: String

Path (absolute or relative) to the directory containing your components.

You can use nuxt aliases (~ or @) to refer to directories inside project or directly use a npm package path similar to require.

extensions

Type: Array<string>
Default:
- Extensions supported by nuxt builder (builder.supportedExtensions)
- Default supported extensions ['vue', 'js'] or ['vue', 'js', 'ts', 'tsx'] depending on your environment

Example: Support multi-file component structure

If you prefer to split your SFCs into .js, .vue and .css, you can only enable .vue files to be scanned:

| components
---| componentC
------| componentC.vue
------| componentC.js
------| componentC.scss

// nuxt.config.js
export default {
  components: [
    { path: '~/components', extensions: ['vue'] }
  ]
}

pattern

Type: string (glob pattern)
Default: **/*.${extensions.join(',')}

Accept Pattern that will be run against specified path.

ignore

Type: Array
Items: string (glob pattern)
Default: []

Ignore patterns that will be run against specified path.

prefix

Type: String
Default: '' (no prefix)

Prefix all matched components.

Example below adds awesome-/Awesome prefix to the name of components in awesome/ directory.

// nuxt.config.js
export default {
  components: [
      '~/components',
      { path: '~/components/awesome/', prefix: 'awesome' }
  ]
}

components/
  awesome/
    Button.vue
  Button.vue

<template>
  <div>
    <AwesomeButton>Click on me 🤘</AwesomeButton>
    <Button>Click on me</Button>
  </div>
</template>

watch

Type: Boolean
Default: true

Watch specified path for changes, including file additions and file deletions.

transpile

Type: Boolean
Default: 'auto'

Transpile specified path using build.transpile, by default ('auto') it will set transpile: true if node_modules/ is in path.

level

Type: Number
Default: 0

Level are use to define a hint when overwriting the components which have the same name in two different directories, this is useful for theming.

export default {
  components: [
    '~/components', // default level is 0
   { path: 'my-theme/components', level: 1 }
  ]
}

Components having the same name in ~/components will overwrite the one in my-theme/components, learn more in Overwriting Components. The lowest value will overwrites.

Library Authors

Making Vue Component libraries with automatic tree-shaking and component registration is now damn easy ✨

This module expose a hook named components:dirs so you can easily extend the directory list without updating user configuration in your Nuxt module.

Imagine a directory structure like this:

| node_modules/
---| awesome-ui/
------| components/
---------| Alert.vue
---------| Button.vue
------| nuxt.js
| pages/
---| index.vue
| nuxt.config.js

Then in awesome-ui/nuxt.js you can use the components:dir hook:

import { join } from 'path'

export default function () {
  this.nuxt.hook('components:dirs', (dirs) => {
    // Add ./components dir to the list
    dirs.push({
      path: join(__dirname, 'components'),
      prefix: 'awesome'
    })
  })
}

That's it! Now in your project, you can import your ui library as a Nuxt module in your nuxt.config.js:

export default {
  buildModules: [
    '@nuxt/components',
    'awesome-ui/nuxt'
  ]
}

And directly use the module components (prefixed with awesome-), our pages/index.vue:

<template>
  <div>
    My <AwesomeButton>UI button</AwesomeButton>!
    <awesome-alert>Here's an alert!</awesome-alert>
  </div>
</template>

It will automatically import the components only if used and also support HMR when updating your components in node_modules/awesome-ui/components/.

Next: publish your awesome-ui module to npm and share it with the other Nuxters ✨

License

MIT

derz / components