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Vue Tip: Use Vue App Instance as Global Store

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Vue provides globalProperties on the app instance, an object that can be used to register global properties that can be accessed on any component instance inside the application.

Info

This is a replacement of Vue 2's Vue.prototype which is no longer present in Vue 3.

main.js
import { createApp } from 'vue' const app = createApp({ /* root component options */ }) app.config.globalProperties.msg = 'hello'

msg can be accessed on any component instance inside the application:

MyComponent.vue
<script> export default { mounted() { console.log(this.msg) // 'hello' }, } </script>

Warning

As with anything global, this should be used sparingly. If your app state is too complex, it's better to use Pinia.

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