SortableJS-vue3

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This is a thin wrapper around the great SortableJS library. I had many issues migrating from Vue.Draggable to vue.draggable.next, and after briefly investigating I decided that it was too complicated and a smaller solution was the answer. This wrapper tries to keep you as close to Sortable as possible (wrapper libaries seem to re-implement or unnecessarily wrap a lot of code).

Note that this library is small enough (see Sortable.vue for what you really need) that I recommend including it in your project without using npm and importing it as a local component. All you need is the linked file.

Why not use <other library>?

• Vue.Draggable only supports Vue 2
• vue.draggable.next uses the Options API, has multiple open (and afaict useful) pull requests, and had weird bugs/side-effects when I tried and used it
• shopify/draggable and vue-shopify-dragable seemed promising but they don't supported nested components

Usage

You can see a demo with more complete code at https://sortablejs-vue3.maxleiter.com.

1. Install the package:

yarn add sortablejs-vue3 sortablejs

or

npm install sortablejs-vue3 sortablejs

2. Import the component in your <script setup> (or <script>):

import { Sortable } from 'sortablejs-vue3'

3. Use the component:

<template>
  <main>
    <Sortable
      :list="elements"
      item-key="id"
      :options="options"
    >
      <template #item="{element, index}">
        <div class="draggable" :key="element.id">
          {{ element.name }}
        </div>
      </template>
    </Sortable>
</template>

4. The list and item-key props are necessary. The options prop is an object that can contain any SortableJS option. You can find a full list of them here: https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable#options

Events

You can listen to Sortable events by adding the listeners to the Sortable component. For example:

<Sortable
  :list="elements"
  item-key="id"
  @change="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @choose="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @unchoose="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @start="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @end="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @add="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @update="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @sort="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @remove="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @filter="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
  @move="(event: Sortable.MoveEvent, event2: Event) => void"
  @clone="(event: Sortable.SortableEvent) => void"
>

Vuex

No changes are necessary to work with Vuex. Just pass store.state.item as your list. To modify your data you need to manually listen to the events and calculate the new position with event.oldIndex and event.newIndex with something like the following:

const moveItemInArray = <T>(array: T[], from: number, to: number) => {
  const item = array.splice(from, 1)[0];
  array.splice(to, 0, item);
};

onEnd(event) { moveItemInArray(store.state.items, event.oldIndex, event.newIndex) }

Development

1. Run yarn to install dependencies
2. yarn dev will start a web server with live reloading
3. yarn build will build the production library files
4. yarn build:site will build the demo website

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Volar