diff --git a/src/.vuepress/config.js b/src/.vuepress/config.js
index e35d0c14c1..22249e30f3 100644
--- a/src/.vuepress/config.js
+++ b/src/.vuepress/config.js
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ const sidebar = {
         '/api/options-composition',
         '/api/options-misc'
       ]
-    }
+    },
+    '/api/instance-properties.md'
   ]
 }
 
diff --git a/src/api/instance-properties.md b/src/api/instance-properties.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Instance Properties
+
+## $data
+
+- **Type:** `Object`
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  The data object that the Vue instance is observing. The Vue instance proxies access to the properties on its data object.
+
+- **See also:** [Options / Data - data](./options-data.html#data-2)
+
+## $props
+
+- **Type:** `Object`
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  An object representing the current props a component has received. The Vue instance proxies access to the properties on its props object.
+
+## $el
+
+- **Type:** `any`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  The root DOM element that the Vue instance is managing.
+
+## $options
+
+- **Type:** `Object`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  The instantiation options used for the current Vue instance. This is useful when you want to include custom properties in the options:
+
+  ```js
+  const app = Vue.createApp({
+    customOption: 'foo',
+    created() {
+      console.log(this.$options.customOption) // => 'foo'
+    }
+  })
+  ```
+
+## $parent
+
+- **Type:** `Vue instance`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  The parent instance, if the current instance has one.
+
+## $root
+
+- **Type:** `Vue instance`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  The root Vue instance of the current component tree. If the current instance has no parents this value will be itself.
+
+## $slots
+
+- **Type:** `{ [name: string]: (...args: any[]) => Array<VNode> | undefined }`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+  Used to programmatically access content [distributed by slots](../guide/component-basics.html#content-distribution-with-slots). Each [named slot](../guide/component-slots.html#named-slots) has its own corresponding property (e.g. the contents of `v-slot:foo` will be found at `vm.$slots.foo()`). The `default` property contains either nodes not included in a named slot or contents of `v-slot:default`.
+
+  Accessing `vm.$slots` is most useful when writing a component with a [render function](TODO).
+
+- **Example:**
+
+  ```html
+  <blog-post>
+    <template v-slot:header>
+      <h1>About Me</h1>
+    </template>
+
+    <template v-slot:default>
+      <p>
+        Here's some page content, which will be included in vm.$slots.default.
+      </p>
+    </template>
+
+    <template v-slot:footer>
+      <p>Copyright 2020 Evan You</p>
+    </template>
+  </blog-post>
+  ```
+
+  ```js
+  const app = Vue.createApp({})
+
+  app.component('blog-post', {
+    render() {
+      return Vue.h('div', [
+        Vue.h('header', this.$slots.header()),
+        Vue.h('main', this.$slots.default()),
+        Vue.h('footer', this.$slots.footer())
+      ])
+    }
+  })
+  ```
+
+- **See also:**
+  - [`<slot>` Component](TODO)
+  - [Content Distribution with Slots](../guide/component-basics.html#content-distribution-with-slots)
+  - [Render Functions - Slots](TODO)
+
+## $refs
+
+- **Type:** `Object`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+An object of DOM elements and component instances, registered with [`ref` attributes](TODO).
+
+- **See also:**
+  - [Child Component Refs](TODO:refs)
+  - [Special Attributes - ref](TODO)
+
+## $attrs
+
+- **Type:** `Object`
+
+- **Read only**
+
+- **Details:**
+
+Contains parent-scope attribute bindings and events that are not recognized (and extracted) as component [props](./options-data.html#props) or [custom events](./options-data.html#emits). When a component doesn't have any declared props or custom events, this essentially contains all parent-scope bindings, and can be passed down to an inner component via `v-bind="$attrs"` - useful when creating higher-order components.
+
+- **See also:**
+  - [Non-Prop Attributes](../guide/component-props.html#non-prop-attributes)