Skip to content

functional components invisible in devtools #822

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Mar 14, 2017
Merged

functional components invisible in devtools #822

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion src/v2/guide/render-function.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -478,7 +478,9 @@ Everything the component needs is passed through `context`, which is an object c

After adding `functional: true`, updating the render function of our anchored heading component would simply require adding the `context` argument, updating `this.$slots.default` to `context.children`, then updating `this.level` to `context.props.level`.

Since functional components are just functions, they're much cheaper to render. They're also very useful as wrapper components. For example, when you need to:
Since functional components are just functions, they're much cheaper to render. However, this also mean that functional components don't show up in VueJS Chrome dev tools component tree.

They're also very useful as wrapper components. For example, when you need to:

- Programmatically choose one of several other components to delegate to
- Manipulate children, props, or data before passing them on to a child component
Expand Down