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Using Watchers with Vuex

Explore how to implement watchers in Vue to monitor Vuex state variables and getters. Learn to react to changes by autocommitting updates to the store and logging state modifications. This lesson helps you understand the timing and use of watchers in complex Vuex applications, improving state management and data flow control.

Vue’s reactivity is a core feature and arguably one of the most useful. Whenever we define a property, be it a prop, a data property, or a computed property, Vue’s reactivity ensures that every piece of code using this property will receive updates.

We often use Vue’s reactivity feature to promptly render a change in the template or update some subsequent property, such as a computed one. Sometimes, we need to execute more complex logic though. For these cases, Vue offers watchers.

What are watchers?

Watchers are functions we can define that Vue will execute as soon as a specified property changes. These watcher functions ...