A few days ago using Vuex I tried to use watcher vue’s property to apply some changes in a specific vue’s component according to a store property. It looks easy to do, just adding to my component:

watch: {
    '$store.state.myStore.aProperty': function(newValue) {
        // do something
    }
}

If this.$store.state.myStore.aProperty it is not an object or array it should work perfectly. But in my case I would like to watch an array of objects. So this solution would not work, that’s because we should use deep property it’s something like:

watch: {
    '$store.state.myStore.aProperty': {
        deep: true,
        handler(newValue): {
            // do something
        }
    }
}

let myStore = {
    aProperty: {}
};
export default {
    state: myStore,
    mutations: {
        setAProperty: (state, newValue) => {
          state.aProperty[newValue.key]= [];  
          state.aProperty[newValue.key].push(newValue.value)
        }
    }
}

I’m using a new key for my store object and as a value an array where I’m using the push method to add a new value.

Looks like push doesn’t dispatch the correct event to watch vue’s feature. But if I use assign values it works, it’s like: state.aProperty = otherObject it works. So I use a auxiliar variable to save a copy of the current store and re-assign it to the store object in order to dispatch the correct event for watch feature:

let myStore = {
    aProperty: {}
};
export default {
    state: myStore,
    mutations: {
        setAProperty: (state, newValue) => {
            let auxVar = Object.assign({}, state.aProperty);
            auxVar[newValue] = [];
            auxVar[newValue].push(newValue.value); // Using push in auxiliar var
            state.aProperty = auxVar; // This line will dispatch the correct event
        }
    }
}

I hope this is useful to you!

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