How to pass HTML content through components with Vue slots

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This post will introduce you to how data can be passed from the parent component to child components in Vue.js using Vue slots. Written by Nwose Lotanna.

Vue slots are Vue template elements created by the Vue team to provide a platform for template content distribution. It is an implementation of the a content distribution API that was inspired by the Web Components spec draft.

Content distribution is important for many reasons, some of which have to do with structure. With Vue slots, you can structure an HTML interface (like with TypeScript), which you can then use as a guide to build out your components by template injection.

The article then describes:

  • What are Vue slots?
  • Why are Vue slots important?
  • Slots vs. props
  • Vue slot syntax
  • Named slots
  • V-slots syntax
  • Scoped slots

And much more in the article, including explained code examples. The whole code is also available in the GitHub repo. Nice one!

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