Manual Migration Guide

Manual Migration Guide

Before manual migration, please make sure your project has been auto upgraded by vue-codemod. Please refer to the User Guide for using vue-codemod.

This manual migration guide is based on the actual problems encountered in the transformed project. Users could also encounter other problems in transforming their projects. It's welcomed for users to open an issue or PR.

Limitation

Vue version

Vue version >= 2.6.0

Third-party dependencies

Some third-party packages currently don't have support for Vue 3

Currently, the UI framework libraries that support Vue 3 are:

quasar
element-plus
ant-design-vue

Please refer to Vue2ToVue3 to see the latest list of all the Vue3-supported UI Components and libraries.

Vue

Global API

Migration Guide from Vue.js team

Transform Global API to a plugin

For those global api not in main.js, transform them to a plugin form.

In Vue 2:

// directive/index.js
import Vue from 'vue'
import myDirective from '@/directive/myDirective'

Vue.directive('myDirective', myDirective)

In Vue 3:

// directive/index.js
import myDirective from '@/directive/myDirective'

export default {
  install: app => {
    app.directive('myDirective', myDirective)
  }
}

Import this plugin in main.js

// main.js
import MyDirective from '@/directive'

Vue.createApp(App).use(myDirective)

Transform Global Configuration by window.app=app
- Configure the global app instance in main.js
```
// main.js
const app = Vue.createApp(App)
window.app = app // Configure the global app instance
app.mount('#app')
```
- Configuration not in main.js
  
  In Vue 2:
```
// message/index.js
Vue.prototype.$baseMessage = () => {
  Message({
    offset: 60,
    showClose: true
  })
}
```
  In Vue 3:
```
// message/index.js
app.config.globalProperties.$baseMessage = () => {
  Message({
    offset: 60,
    showClose: true
  })
}
```
  ⚠Attention: Users need to consider the execution order of the js code. Only the code that runs after the window.app = app configuration statement in main.js can use window.app. The part of the code that is known to run after main.js are: 1. run inside the export default {}; 2. js files that use app.use() in main.js.

Slot

Please refer to Migration Guide from Vue.js team for more details.

slot attributes are deprecated since Vue 2.6.0. v-slot was introduced for named and scoped slots. In vue-codemod , the slot-attribute rule can transform slot attributes to v-slot syntax：

<base-layout>
  <p slot="content">2.5 slot attribute in slot</p>
</base-layout>

will be transformed to:

<base-layout>
  <template v-slot:content>
    <p >2.5 slot attribute in slot</p>
  </template>
</base-layout>

For those named slots that use v-if and v-else together, vue-codemod will return an error.

<el-button v-if="showCronBox" slot="append" @click="showBox = false"></el-button>
<el-button v-else="showCronBox" slot="append" @click="showBox = true"></el-button>

will be transformed to:

<template v-slot:append>
  <el-button v-if="showCronBox" @click="showBox = false"></el-button>
</template>
<template v-slot:append>
  <el-button v-else="showCronBox" slot="append" @click="showBox = true"></el-button>
</template>

Since v-if and v-else will be divided into two <template>, it will return an error:

v-else used on element <el-button> without corresponding v-if.

We need to manually put v-if and v-else into one <template> tag.

<template v-slot:append>
  <el-button v-if="showCronBox" @click="showBox = false"></el-button>
  <el-button v-else="showCronBox" slot="append" @click="showBox = true"></el-button>
</template>

Filter

Partial Filter

Please refer to Migration Guide from Vue.js team for more details.

Global Filter

Please refer to Migration Guide from Vue.js team for more details.

Events API

In Vue 3, $on, $off and $once instance methods are removed. Component instances no longer implement the event emitter interface, thus it is no longer possible to use these APIs to listen to a component's own emitted events from within a component. The event bus pattern can be replaced by using an external library implementing the event emitter interface, for example mitt or tiny-emitter.

Please refer to Migration Guide from Vue.js team for more details.

Add mitt dependencies
```
yarn add mitt
// or
npm install mitt
```

Create mitt instance

import mitt from 'mitt'

const bus = {}
const emitter = mitt()
bus.$on = emitter.on
bus.$off = emitter.off
bus.$once = emitter.once

export default bus

Add global event bus declaration in main.js

// main.js
import bus from '@/bus'

const app = createApp(App).mount('#app')
app.config.globalProperties.$bus = bus

/deep/

>>> and /deep/ are not supported
/deep/ .el-input {} should be transformed to :deep(.el-input) {}
v-deep:: .bar {} should be transformed to ::v-deep(.bar) {}

Delimiter

In Vue 2, event internal statement can use newline character as the delimiter.

<button @click="
  item.value = ''
  clearTag()
">
</button>

But in Vue 3, newline character is no longer used as the delimiter. A ; or , is needed.

<button @click="
  item.value = '';
  clearTag()
">
</button>

Vue Router

VueRouter.prototype

Please refer to Migration Guide from Vue.js team for more details.

In Router 3, Vue Router is a class, which can use prototype to access push method. But in Router 4, Router is an instance, which needs to access the push method through an instance.

In Router 3 (for Vue 2) :

import VueRouter from 'vue-router'

const originalPush = VueRouter.prototype.push
VueRouter.prototype.push = function (location, onResolve, onReject) {
  if (onResolve || onReject) {
    return originalPush.call(this, location, onResolve, onReject)
  }
  return original.call(this, location).catch(e => {
    if (e.name !== 'NavigationDuplicated') {
      return Promise.reject(e)
    }
  })
}

In Router 4 (for Vue 3):

import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router'

const router = createRouter({
  history: createWebHistory(process.env.BASE_URL),
  routes
})
// Attention: Rewrite the push method after creating the router instance.
const originalPush = router.push
router.push = function (location, onResolve, onReject) {
  if (onResolve || onReject) {
    return originalPush.call(this, location, onResolve, onReject)
  }
  return original.call(this, location).catch(e => {
    if (e.name !== 'NavigationDuplicated') {
      return Promise.reject(e)
    }
  })
}

Removed `*` routes

Please refer to Migration Guide from Vue.js team for more details.

Catch all routes (*, /*) must now be defined using a parameter with a custom regex.

In Router 3 (for Vue 2), users can define * router directly:

// router/index.js
const asyncRoutes = [
  {
    path: '*',
    redirect: '/'
  }
]

In Router 4 (for Vue 4), users need to use pathMatch to define path:

// router/index.js
const asyncRoutes = [
  {
    path: '/:pathMatch(.*)*',
    redirect: '/'
  }
]

All navigations in Router 4 are asynchronous

It may caused some render failure for components. For example, the following RuleFilter.vue component:

watch: {
  $route: {
    immediate: true,
    handler (to, from) {
      if (to.name === 'RuleFilterTbl') {
        const param = !!this.$refs.internal ? this.$refs.internal.selectItem : {}
        this.$bus.$emit('filterSearch', param)
      }
    }
  }
}

this.$bus.$emit will return an error, because the event has not been created. The event will not be registered on $bus until the component is mounted.

// RuleFilterTbl.vue
mounted() {
  this.$bus.$on('filterSearch', this.search)
  this.$bus.$on('filterReset', this.reset)
}

So you may need to wait for the router to be ready before trigger filterSearch:

watch: {
  $route: {
    immediate: true,
    handler (to, from) {
      if (to.name === 'RuleFilterTbl') {
        const param = !!this.$refs.internal ? this.$refs.internal.selectItem : {}
        // Determine whether the router is initialized
        this.$router.isReady().then(() => {
          this.$bus.$emit('filterSearch', param)
        })
      }
    }
  }
}

Element-ui

Currently, Element UI provides a Vue3-supported libraries Element Plus. vue-codemod has completed most of the upgrade scenarios such as dependency upgrade and dependency replacement, but Element-Plus is still in beta testing, some functions may be unstable, and developers need to upgrade manually.

Import CSS

Part of global CSS should be imported from element-plus: import('element-ui/lib/theme-chalk/index.css') should be replaced with import('element-plus/lib/theme-chalk/index.css')

`slot` attribute in el-table

Must use <template> to wrap the slot. For example:

<el-table>
  <span slot-scope='scope'>{{ scope.row.num }}</span>
</el-table>

Need to be transformed to:

<el-table>
  <template #default='scope'>
    <span>{{ scope.row.num }}</span>
  </template>
</el-table>

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Manual Migration Guide

Limitation

Vue version

Third-party dependencies

Vue

Global API

Slot

Filter

Partial Filter

Global Filter

Events API

/deep/

Delimiter

Vue Router

VueRouter.prototype

Removed `*` routes

All navigations in Router 4 are asynchronous

Element-ui

Import CSS

`slot` attribute in el-table

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Manual Migration Guide

Limitation

Vue version

Third-party dependencies

Vue

Global API

Slot

Filter

Partial Filter

Global Filter

Events API

/deep/

Delimiter

Vue Router

VueRouter.prototype

Removed * routes

All navigations in Router 4 are asynchronous

Element-ui

Import CSS

slot attribute in el-table

Removed `*` routes

`slot` attribute in el-table