Learning Vue and stuck. I have a brand new Laravel 5.4 project that I am using to learn Vue concepts, using Pusher/Echo. All is working in terms of message broadcasting, and the messages are fetched from the server and displayed on page load as expected. I want to programatically (from somewhere else in the project) send a message into the queue.
I am using this example as guide to accessing the Vue method outside the instance.
Why can I not access the instance method from my main JS file? The project is compiled with webpack FYI.
My Vue.js file:
$(document).ready(function()
{
Vue.component('chat-system', require('../components/chat-system.vue'));
var chatSystem = new Vue({
el: '#system-chat',
data: {
sysmessages: []
},
created() {
this.fetchMessages();
Echo.private(sys_channel)
.listen('SystemMessageSent', (e) => {
this.sysmessages.unshift({
sysmessage: e.message.message,
player: e.player
});
});
},
methods: {
fetchMessages() {
axios.get(sys_get_route)
.then(response => {
this.sysmessages = response.data;
});
},
addMessage(sysmessage) {
this.sysmessages.unshift(sysmessage);
this.$nextTick(() => {
this.$refs.sysmessages.scrollToTop();
});
axios.post(sys_send_route, sysmessage)
.then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
});
},
sendMessage(sysmessage) {
if (sysmessage !== '') {
this.$emit('systemmessagesent', {
player: this.player,
message: sysmessage
});
}
}
}
});
});
My Vue.js component:
<template>
<div id="round-status-message" class="round-status-message">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12" v-for="sysmessage in sysmessages">
{{ sysmessage.message }}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
props: ['player', 'sysmessages'],
data() {
return {
newSysMessage: ''
}
},
methods: {
scrollToTop () {
this.$el.scrollTop = 0
},
sendMessage() {
this.$emit('systemmessagesent', {
player: this.player,
message: this.newSysMessage
});
this.newSysMessage = ''
}
}
};
</script>
I want to send a message into the queue programatically, so in my app.js, to test, I do:
// TESTING SYSTEM MESSAGES - DELETE
window.setInterval(function(){
var resp = {};
resp.data = {
id: 1,
message: "She hastily put down yet, before the end of half.",
progress_id: 1,
created_at: "2017-08-17 14:01:11",
updated_at: "2017-08-17 14:01:11"
};
chatSystem.$refs.sysmessages.sendMessage(resp);
console.log(resp);
}, 3000);
// TESTING SYSTEM MESSAGES - DELETE
But I get Uncaught ReferenceError: chatSystem is not defined
