Modifiers for Custom Events
Explore how to use VueJS event modifiers with custom events to handle complex user interactions. Understand event payloads, multi-device considerations, and modifiers like ctrl, shift, and alt. Gain insight into preventing errors with .prevent and .stop on custom events while creating dynamic behaviors such as Ctrl+Click in single-page applications.
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Custom events are a staple of flexible Vue components. They help us write more meaningful code and abstract logic away. Event modifiers are helpful to alter the behavior of events and steer how they work. Let’s combine the two.
Motivation and use cases
Multi-device support has become a standard in today’s web development. People use web apps with smartphones on public transport, laptops and desktop devices at work, and tablets at home. As a result, power-user applications with many shortcuts that make heavy use of keyboard-based event modifiers might not always work the way we want them to.
Imagine a Vue app ...