Composition API - Axios request in setup() - vuejs3

Question

I am experimenting with Vue3's Composition API in a Laravel/VueJS/InertiaJS stack.
A practice that I have used a lot in Vue2 with this stack is to have 1 route that returns the Vue page component (eg. Invoices.vue) and then in the created() callback, I would trigger an axios call to an additional endpoint to fetch the actual data.
I am now trying to replicate a similar approach in Vue3 with composition API like so
export default {
components: {Loader, PageBase},
props: {
fetch_url: {
required: true,
type: String,
}
},
setup(props) {
const loading = ref(false)
const state = reactive({
invoices: getInvoices(),
selectedInvoices: [],
});
async function getInvoices() {
loading.value = true;
return await axios.get(props.fetch_url).then(response => {
return response.data.data;
}).finally(() => {
loading.value = false;
})
}
function handleSelectionChange(selection) {
state.selectedInvoices = selection;
}
return {
loading,
state,
handleSelectionChange,
}
}
}
This however keeps on giving me the propise, rather than the actual data that is returned.
Changing it like so does work:
export default {
components: {Loader, PageBase},
props: {
fetch_url: {
required: true,
type: String,
}
},
setup(props) {
const loading = ref(false)
const state = reactive({
invoices: [],
selectedInvoices: [],
});
axios.get(props.fetch_url).then(response => {
state.invoices = response.data.data;
}).finally(() => {
loading.value = false;
})
function handleSelectionChange(selection) {
state.selectedInvoices = selection;
}
return {
loading,
state,
handleSelectionChange,
}
}
}
I want to use function though, so I can re-use it for filtering etc.
Very curious to read how others are doing this.
I have been googling about it a bit, but cant seem to find relevant docu.
All feedback is highly welcomed.

Answer 1

I tried this now with async setup() and await getInvoices() and <Suspense> but it never displayed any content.
So this is how I'd do it, except I wouldn't and I'd use vuex and vuex-orm to store the invoices and fetch the state from the store.
<template>
<div>loading:{{ loading }}</div>
<div>state:{{ state }}</div>
</template>
<script>
import {defineComponent, ref, reactive} from "vue";
import axios from "axios";
export default defineComponent({
name: 'HelloWorld',
props: {
fetch_url: {
required: true,
type: String,
}
},
setup(props) {
const loading = ref(false)
const state = reactive({
invoices: []
})
async function getInvoices() {
loading.value = true;
await axios.get(props.fetch_url).then(response => {
state.invoices = response.data;
}).finally(() => {
loading.value = false;
})
}
return {
getInvoices,
loading,
state,
}
},
async created() {
await this.getInvoices()
}
})
</script>
<style scoped>
</style>
This is of course similar to what you're doing in option 2.