vue-golden-layout

Integration of the golden-layout to Vue.

Installation

npm install --save vue-golden-layout

In order to test, after cloning, a static application can be compiled :

npm install
npm fuse
npm run test/compile

The file dist/index.html then shows test/test.vue in action

Example

<layout-golden>
	<gl-col>
		<gl-component title="compA">
			<h1>CompA</h1>
		</gl-component>
		<gl-row>
			...
		</gl-row>
		<gl-stack>
			...
		</gl-stack>
	</gl-col>
</layout-golden>

Don't forget in order to make it work

• Include a golden-layout theme CSS.

import 'golden-layout/src/css/goldenlayout-light-theme.css'

goldenlayout-base.css is already integrated to the library.

Usage

This library integrate a straightforward way bundling with fuse-box. If you make a project with this bundler, it will be straight-forward.

import vgl from 'vue-golden-layout'
Vue.use(vgl);

In case of incompatibility with bundlers, you can bundle vue-golden-layout by simply bundling the sources.
The sources entry point is in vue-golden-layout/src/index.ts

import vgl from 'vue-golden-layout/src'
Vue.use(vgl);

The objects are differentiated into : The layout object (golden), the container objects (golden and glRow, glCol and glStack), the contained objects (glRow, glCol and glStack and glComponent).

Named templates

In order to use v-if and v-for to control the content, templates have to be defined and used with a name.
If this rule is broken :

• Popup will display blank
• Loading a saved state will fail
• This will be displayed in your console: "Dynamic golden-layout components should be named templates instead."

Defining a template

This is done through slots in the <golden-layout> element (the square brackets stand for "optional")

<template slot="template-name"[ slot-scope="myState"]>
	...
</template>

The content of myState can of course be changed. This will be saved/loaded when the overall state is saved/loaded.

Using a template

gl-component has a template property. This is a string that target the slot defined.
It also (useful for v-fors) has a state property that will be used as the slot-scope

<gl-component v-for="sth in swhr" :key="sth.else"
	template="template-name" :state="sth.state" />

Properties

Contained objects

title: string
width: number
height: number
closable: boolean
hidden: boolean

Saving/restoring states

The golden-layout as the golden-router both have a property and an event named state.

• The event is triggered when the state has changed (even deeply, like a deep watch).
• The property is used at mount to initialise the configuration. After that, any change will have no effect.

Low-level functionalities

CSS

The glComponent answers to this class to fit in the layout child container, that you can override

.glComponent
	width 100%
	height 100%
	overflow auto

Events

Layout

Straight forwards from golden-layout, refer to their doc

itemCreated
stackCreated
rowCreated
tabCreated
columnCreated
componentCreated
selectionChanged
windowOpened
windowClosed
itemDestroyed
initialised
activeContentItemChanged

Contained objects

Straight forwards from golden-layout, refer to their doc

show
shown
maximised
minimised
resize
hide
close
open
destroy

Methods

Container

These are defined on the container objects

addGlChild(child, comp)

'child' is a configuration object (cfr golden-layout doc.), 'comp' is a vue component of a contained object
The child.componentState.templateId will be managed : don't fuss with the IDs, just give the component (your specified ID won't be replaced)

removeGlChild(index)

This function is called automatically on VueComponent.beforeDestroy

Contained objects

hide()
show()
close()

golden-router

The router is a layout-golden that aims to sublimate the <router-view />
It takes perhaps more options than the later (even if it is not sure) and let people manage their routes in tabs, then having two
opened in a split screen or even popped-out in another browser window on another physical display.

The main usage is <golden-router />. Any options of router-view still have to be implemented.

Titles

One propriety the golden-router has more than router-view is due to the fact that tabs must have a title. The property titler
allows you to specify a function that takes a route object in parameter and gives the string that will be used as title.

If none is specified, the default is to take $route.meta.title - this means that routes have to be defined with a title in their meta-data.

To test

Run npm run all - there are two things to bundle: the library and the test program. After that, run npm run serve, this will launch the minimalistic server as SPA don't fit with file serving.

TODOs

Re-ordering and interactions

For now, either Vue interact with the layout, either we let the user re-organise

• goldenKey property to elements (re-use the v-for :key ?)
• replicate the reorganisation in the ghost structure (list of empty <div> surrounded by display:none; replicating the layout tree)
• Use container.setState( state ) or container.extendState( state ) to allow dynamic set of state

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