Vuejs and Vue.set(), update array

Question

I'm new to Vuejs. Made something, but I don't know it's the simple / right way.

what I want

I want some dates in an array and update them on a event. First I tried Vue.set, but it dind't work out. Now after changing my array item:

this.items[index] = val;
this.items.push();

I push() nothing to the array and it will update.. But sometimes the last item will be hidden, somehow... I think this solution is a bit hacky, how can I make it stable?

Simple code is here:

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
  	f: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    items: [
      "10-03-2017",
      "12-03-2017"
    ]
  },
  methods: {
    
    cha: function(index, item, what, count) {
    	console.log(item + " index > " + index);
      val = moment(this.items[index], this.f).add(count, what).format(this.f);
  		this.items[index] = val;
      this.items.push();
      console.log("arr length:  " + this.items.length);
    }
  }
})

ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/1.0.11/vue.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.6/moment.min.js"></script>
<div id="app">
  <ul>
    <li v-for="(index, item) in items">
    <br><br>
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', -1)">
      - day</button>
      {{ item }}
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', 1)">
      + day</button>
    <br><br>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer 1

VueJS can't pickup your changes to the state if you manipulate arrays like this.

As explained in Common Beginner Gotchas, you should use array methods like push, splice or whatever and never modify the indexes like this a[2] = 2 nor the .length property of an array.

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
  	f: 'DD-MM-YYYY',
    items: [
      "10-03-2017",
      "12-03-2017"
    ]
  },
  methods: {
    
    cha: function(index, item, what, count) {
    	console.log(item + " index > " + index);
      val = moment(this.items[index], this.f).add(count, what).format(this.f);


	  this.items.$set(index, val)
      console.log("arr length:  " + this.items.length);
    }
  }
})

ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/1.0.11/vue.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.6/moment.min.js"></script>
<div id="app">
  <ul>
    <li v-for="(index, item) in items">
    <br><br>
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', -1)">
      - day</button>
      {{ item }}
      <button v-on:click="cha(index, item, 'day', 1)">
      + day</button>
    <br><br>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer 2

EDIT 2

• For all object changes that need reactivity use Vue.set(object, prop, value)
• For array mutations, you can look at the currently supported list here

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EDIT 1

For vuex you will want to do Vue.set(state.object, key, value)

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Original

So just for others who come to this question. It appears at some point in Vue 2.* they removed this.items.$set(index, val) in favor of this.$set(this.items, index, val).

Splice is still available and here is a link to array mutation methods available in vue link.