Vue base modal

Minimalistic promise-based, programmatically-opening & stacking modal plugin for Vue.js.

Basic usage

Import and use the plugin in your main file.

import VueBaseModal from 'vue-base-modal'
Vue.use(VueBaseModal)

Add modal-stack component to the end of your root component (i.e. App.vue). This is a placeholder for all open modals.

// App.vue
 
<template>
  <div class="App">
    ...
    <modal-stack />
  </div>
</template>

Create your modal component. Use $emit('close', result) to close the modal (with optional return value that is going to be passed to the resolved promise).

// WelcomeModal.vue
 
<template>
  <modal title="Hello there!" class="WelcomeModal">
    My name is {{ name }}
 
    <template slot="footer">
      <button @click="$emit('close')">
        Cancel
      </button>
      
      <button @click="$emit('close', true)">
        Confirm
      </button>
    </template>
  </modal>
</template>
 
<script>
  export default {
    props: {
      name: String
    }
  }
</script> 

And then open your modal programmatically by calling this.$modal(component, props).

import WelcomeModal from '@/components/modals/WelcomeModal.vue'
 
export default {
  ...
  methods: {
    async openWelcome() {
      const result = await this.$modal(WelcomeModal, {
        name: 'Doggo'
      })
 
      console.log(result ? 'confirmed!' : 'canceled!')
    }
  }
}

<modal> component

This component provides basic layout template for your custom modal, where you should use it as its root element.

You can close you modal by firing $emit('close', result) from your component. result param is optional and passed as a result of the resolved promise returned by this.$modal() .

Slots

There are three named slots (header, content, footer) with predefined styles (padding). Non of these is rendered when ommited.

<modal>
  <template slot="header">
    This is header
  </template>
 
  <template slot="content">
    This is content
  </template>
  
  <template slot="content">
    This is footer
  </template>
</modal>

You can also use default slot instead of content which has no styles.

Properties

title

You can use this attribute as a shorthand for modals header containing just a plain text. This is overwritten when header slot is used.

  <modal title="The title">
    ...
  </moda>

is equivalent to

  <modal>
    <template slot="header">
      The title
    </template>
    ...
  </modal>

Events

before-close(callback)

If provided, called when the modal is about to be closed. It receives a callback method that must be called by handler in order to close the modal, once it could be safely closed.

  <template>
    <modal @before-close="beforeClose">
      ...
    </modal>
  </template>
  
  <script>
    export default {
      ...
      methods: {
        beforeClose(callback) {
          !this.isLoading && callback()
        }
      }
    }
  </script>