Import into a vue.js component

Question

I'm trying to import a library of the Vuelidate plugin into my newsletter.vue.js component.

But this import returns an error: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

How can I import this into my vue.js component?

First to all, I´m using webpack and call first Vuelidate:

/**
 * First we will load all of this project's JavaScript dependencies which
 * includes Vue and other libraries. It is a great starting point when
 * building robust, powerful web applications using Vue and Laravel.
 */

require('./bootstrap');


window.Vue = require('vue');

import BootstrapVue from 'bootstrap-vue'
import Vuelidate from 'vuelidate'

Vue.use(BootstrapVue)
Vue.use(Vuelidate)

/**
 * The following block of code may be used to automatically register your
 * Vue components. It will recursively scan this directory for the Vue
 * components and automatically register them with their "basename".
 *
 * Eg. ./components/ExampleComponent.vue -> <example-component></example-component>
 */

// const files = require.context('./', true, /\.vue$/i)
// files.keys().map(key => Vue.component(key.split('/').pop().split('.')[0], files(key).default))

//Vue.component('example-component', require('./components/ExampleComponent.vue').default);

/**
 * Next, we will create a fresh Vue application instance and attach it to
 * the page. Then, you may begin adding components to this application
 * or customize the JavaScript scaffolding to fit your unique needs.
 */

const app = new Vue({
});

window.onload = function(){
    app.$mount('#app');
}

Then I see that I have to import 'vuelidate/lib/validators' into the component in order to use it.

Like this example.

The problem is that I can't do an import inside my component vue, it always gives me error.

This is the code of my component:

import validators from 'vuelidate/lib/validators';//this return me error

Vue.component('newsletter', {

    template :  '<div>\
      <b-form @submit="onSubmit">\
        \
          \
        <b-form-group id="exampleInputGroup2" label="Food" label-for="exampleInput2">\
          <b-form-select\
            id="exampleInput2"\
            :options="foods"\
            :state="$v.form.food.$dirty ? !$v.name.$error : null"\
            v-model="form.food"\
          />\
  \
          <b-form-invalid-feedback id="input2LiveFeedback">\
            This is a required field\
          </b-form-invalid-feedback>\
        </b-form-group>\
  \
        <b-button type="submit" variant="primary" :disabled="$v.form.$invalid">Submit</b-button>\
      </b-form>\
    </div>',

    props : ['route_post'],

    data: function()
    {
        return {
            foods: ['apple', 'orange'],
            form: {}
          }
    },  

    validations: {
      form: {
        name: {
          required: validators.required,
          minLength: validators.minLength(3)
        }
      }
    },

});

Answer 1

The error you got is as a result of not correctly importing what you want to use. There are several ways to import this library.

Import and use globally:

import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuelidate from 'vuelidate'
Vue.use(Vuelidate)

Alternatively, import a mixin directly to components:

import { validationMixin } from 'vuelidate'

var Component = Vue.extend({
  mixins: [validationMixin],
  validations: { ... }
})

Or

import { required, maxLength } from 'vuelidate/lib/validators'

Or import them individually to reduce import size:

import required from 'vuelidate/lib/validators/required'
import maxLength from 'vuelidate/lib/validators/maxLength'

You could also use require:

const { required, minLength } = require('vuelidate/lib/validators')

For your use case, validators doesn't exist in 'vuelidate/lib/validators' as it is not a property/member.

Update: From the Bootstrap example link you provided, it is possible an older version of vuelidate.

Vuelidate does not provide a default export hence this import style import validators from 'vuelidate/lib/validators' doesn't work. Using named imports on the other hand works just fine.