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How to create a global snackbar using Nuxt, Vuetify and Vuex.

Stephann on October 10, 2019

TL;DR Code here Intro Snackbars, also known as alerts or toasts, are present in every application. They are handy to show im...

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David • Nov 10 '20

For those using vue and dont have Nuxt inject:

1 - Create a snackbar plugin receiving vuex store as option:

// src/plugins/snackbar.js
const snackbarPlugin = {
  install: (Vue, { store }) => {
    if (!store) {
      throw new Error('Please provide vuex store.');
    }

    Vue.prototype.$snackbar = {
      showMessage: function ({
        content = '',
        color = ''
      }) {
        store.commit(
          'snackbar/showMessage',
          { content, color },
          { root: true }
        );
      }
    };
  },
};
export default snackbarPlugin;

2 - At your main.js, pass your plugin to Vue:

// src/main.js
import Vue from 'vue';
import App from './App.vue';
import router from './router';
import store from './store';
import snackbarPlugin from './plugins/snackbar';

Vue.use(snackbarPlugin, { store })

Vue.config.productionTip = false;

new Vue({
  router,
  store,
  render: (h) => h(App),
}).$mount('#app');

Stephann • Jan 21 '21

Thanks for this. I added link for this comment on post for other people who doesn't use Nuxt.

vishnu p manoharan • Feb 8 '23

I Set up this notifier, and it's working on the components and page, but while I try to trigger $notifier from a another plugin, the snack bar didn't shown!

Stephann • Feb 28 '23

You will have to search about how inject a plugin in another plugin. I'm not using Nuxt anymore, so I don't know how to solve this problem.

Md Abu Taher • Oct 11 '19

This is great!

Interesting way to show code with link to specific commit. It shows exactly what changed in case anyone wants to compare it with this tutorial.

One thing I instantly thought upon seeing this, "what? all those libraries just to show a snackbar?" :D Who knew the web development would become so broad!

Stephann • Oct 11 '19

Yeah, front end development can be complex sometimes haha.

juli4g33k • Jul 27 '20

This was the first more complex task I had to implement for one of my previous employers and which I failed miserably, precisely because I went for the naive approach to create a component and import it in every other component where I needed to spawn a snackbar. I ended polluting the entire codebase with snippets of code for the snackbar.

Thanks for sharing your approach, it's easier and more elegant.

Mohammad Reza Ghazy • Apr 23 '20

excellent job Stephann ! important step to code reuse ! also it is possible to use this method for confirmation dialog.. which always you have to ask when you want to delete an item..
on the other hand we have three file creation and two file update for just a "snack-bar" message !
we can also use third-party library like sweetalert2. they did good job !

Fiyinfoluwa Akinsiku • Feb 10 '21

This was really helpful, thanks!

Also if anyone is getting this error Property '$notifier' does not exist on type 'CombinedVueInstance<Vue..., a workaround is to use this ( this as any ).$notifier.showMessage(...) instead.

Japanesen • Mar 1 '21 • Edited

I'm having issues with the :app setting, no matter what I do it doesn't respect my footer / header etc. and just goes on top of them. :app="true" or :app="false", none of it works. Any ideas why? (Nuxt + vuetify)