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Building Your Own Vue 3 Plugin — A Full Guide
Vue 3 Plugins are a great way to add reusable functionality to your apps. Let’s learn to build our own.
Plugins are a great way to add reusable functionality to your Vue apps. With tons of existing plugins for components, routing, and more, the ecosystem for Vue has solutions for many common use cases.
Some examples of commonly used plugins are vue-router, vue custom-element, and vue-touch.
However, there will come a time when there isn’t a plugin that perfectly matches your project, or a time when you want to build your own plugins and share them with the world.
In this tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at how to build your very own Vue 3 plugin.
What can we do with Vue plugins?
Simply put, Vue plugins allow us to extract any kind of functionality into its own self-contained code that can be reused across different projects.
Typically, they’re used to add global-level functionality to your Vue app. Per the Vue Docs, here are some of the most common uses for plugins.
- Adding global components
- Adding global directives, transitions, or other assets
