BE AWARE: NOT MAINTAINED AND FAILING

[Garito]

This component is not maintained at all and doesn't work properly on some cases

[blank-tree]

@Garito do you have an alternative?

[Garito]

Not that I know of
But I'm searching cause I need this feature big time

[blank-tree]

@Garito Same here… it "works" in Vue, but I have duplicated content all over the place with Nuxt…

[Garito]

How I've solved my need:
Since I load all the templates at startup, I can do something like this:

<script>
const tmpl = `
<div class="section"
  <template v-if="product">
` + store.state.tmpls.find(t => t.slug === 'productwithitems').code + `
  </template>
  <div class="hero" v-else>
    <div class="hero-body">{{ $t('Loading') }}...</div>
  </div>
</div>
`
export default {
  name:  'Product',
  template: tmpl,
...
}
</script>

I don't use nuxt so I don't know if this will work there

[Garito]

I'm making more test on this issue and I found another way to achieve the same result if you need to pass the template as a component property:

render (cE) {
    const tmplStr = `
<div>
  <template v-if="product">` + this.tmpl.code + `</template>
  <div class="card" v-else>
    <div class="card-content">{{ $t('Loading') }}...</div>
  </div>
</div>
`
    const tmpl = Vue.compile(tmplStr)
    return tmpl.render.call(this, cE)
  }

[ThomasKientz]

Create a javascript component as follow :

// renderer.js

import Vue from 'vue'

export default Vue.component('renderer', {
  functional: true,
  render: function(h, context) {
    if (!context.props.template) return h()
    return h(Vue.compile(context.props.template))
  },
})

Then use it as any other components :

<renderer :template="myTemplate" />

You will need to use the full build to use Vue.compile(), with vue-cli's config file just add :

// vue.config.js

module.exports = {
  runtimeCompiler: true,
  [...]
}

Demo => https://codesandbox.io/s/vue-template-render-3x590

[blank-tree]

@ThomasKientz @Garito
Have you found a working solution with SSR and Nuxt.js?

[yellow1912]

@ThomasKientz interesting, how do you pass through additional props such as templateProps?

[edgarsn]

Indeed this is not maintained for some time now. This lib still works for my existing projects though.

For new projects, I would take a look at this repo: https://github.com/jonwatkins/vue-runtime-template-compiler

It looks like alternative for me.

[SikoSoft]

@edgarsn It does look like this library is indeed more up to date and performs a bit better, but I find it still has issues that arise by its design.

In specific, what I notice is that if you manipulate data from your template (through event handlers in my case), the parent (or expected) component does not actually receive the changes. Instead, a proxy'ed version of the parent template receives changes.

This subtle, yet very significant effect isn't mentioned in the documentation, but renders it less useful for me.

It might work more correctly with objects (I haven't tested), but when I use it for primatives (numbers in this case), the proxy component updates its data, but the parent for whom it received the context from does not update its data.

But it still feels like a step forward from this library, because I can at least hook into vuex to work around this, and not worry about the infinite looping v-runtime-template causes me.

[patarapolw]

Actually I have found a solution that doesn't really need maintenance.

<component :is="{ template, functional: true }">

https://dev.to/patarapolw/vue-runtime-compiler-for-arbitary-markdown-4602

[rogerclarkmelbourne]

@patarapolw

This is an interesting solution, but I'm surprised that the author of this component and also https://github.com/jonwatkins/vue-runtime-template-compiler both wrote the a component to handle this functionality

Can the <component :is method load the contents of the template from an external source e.g. downloaded using axios?

[patarapolw]

It appears that not only { template }, but full blown Vue.extend() can be used for this.

So, { data, template, methods } should easily account for async methods and axios.

[rogerclarkmelbourne]

@patarapolw

OK.

I am trying to migrate a site which where the content pages are currently dynamically loaded from pure HTML templates, into an iPad app, but the problem with loading dynamic content has been a bit of a roadblock, especially as I would now need to have components in these HTML pages.

This component seems to do some of what I need, but as its no longer maintained, things could be a problem.

[patarapolw]

@rogerclarkmelbourne

I edited the one with { template } a bit. Perhaps functional: true should also be declared for better performance; if you don't need this inside the component. (Not sure how much it really helps, though.)

<component :is="{ template, functional: true }" />