Any HTML is legal, so you can just write a regular link, but if you want to have a fast response, it is recommended that you include Vue Router. This brings two important tags: <router-link>, which this post is mainly about and <router-view>.

Creating a link in Vue is as simple as:

<router-link to="home">Home</router-link>

This renders a perfectly correct link, using the earlier mentioned a-tag. It even adds a nice bonus, adding an ‘active’ class when that route is active. If you prefer this class on the containing element, do this:

<router-link to="home" tag="li"><a>Home</a></router-link>

This will render something along the lines of:

<li><a href="home">Home</a></li>

Be aware: this is the only valid use-case for the tag-property in vue’s router-link component. Hence be wary if you come across any use of the tag-property, but Vue’s default is good.

You pick up o…

Congratulations, you started working with one of the popular front-end frameworks. Both Vue and React are excellent choices to create rich and reactive applications. But sometimes, you ‘just’ want to show the user another page. Whether it is a simple about page, or another ‘section’ in the app. In this post I will cover both Vue en React and, little bonus, “React on steroids”, NextJS.

It is important to know that you need a router to make in-app pagination work. If you look up router and your favourite framework you’re probably find a way to do it, accompanied with some ways to actually not do it. Hence, here I’ll focus on the right way.

The basics of every link

While you can make everything clickable (or touch-able), it is important that enabling navigation between pages was already a core concept when the web was invented. Even when writing webpages using React, Vue, or most other JavaScript frameworks, it ends up as HTML to the browser (wit…