I am trying to use Choices.js within a Vue component. The component compiles successfully, but then an error is triggered:
[vue-router] Failed to resolve async component default: ReferenceError: document is not defined
In the browser I see:
ReferenceError document is not defined
I think this has something to do with the SSR in Nuxt.js? I only need Choices.js to run on the client, because it's a client only aspect I guess.
nuxt.config.js
build: {
vendor: ['choices.js']
}
AppCountrySelect.vue
<script>
import Choices from 'choices.js'
export default {
name: 'CountrySelect',
created () {
console.log(this.$refs, Choices)
const choices = new Choices(this.$refs.select)
console.log(choices)
}
}
</script>
In classic Vue, this would work fine, so I'm very much still getting to grips with how I can get Nuxt.js to work this way.
Any ideas at all where I'm going wrong?
Thanks.
It's a common error when you start a Nuxt project ;-)
The Choices.js lib is available only for client-side! So Nuxt tried to renderer from server-side, but from Node.js window.document
doesn't exist, then you have an error.
nb: window.document
is only available from the browser renderer.
Since Nuxt 1.0.0 RC7, you can use <no-ssr>
element to allow your component only for client-side.
<template>
<div>
<no-ssr placeholder="loading...">
<your-component>
</no-ssr>
</div>
</template>
take a look at the official example here: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/blob/dev/examples/no-ssr/pages/index.vue