Reactivity Caveats

Learn how the reactivity system has changed in Vue 3.

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One significant change coming with Vue 3 is the reactivity system implementation.

Vue 2

In Vue 2, to make data reactive, getters and setters of Object.defineProperty were used. However, this came with a few reactivity caveats.

For instance, to ensure the reactivity of a property on a data object, it must be added to the state during initialization. Vue 2 can’t detect property addition or deletion, as shown in the example below:

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