vue-bottom-bar

When we were creating a chat-like UI, having keeping a chat bar at the bottom of the screen was a surprisingly difficult problem. Especially when dealing with Safari on ios. @nagoos/vue-bottom-bar is a component that you can pass your own components into. The passed components will be kept glued to the bottom of the browser.

See codesandbox demo here

In our demo, we demonstrate using a vuetify input component, which simulates text inputs that found at the bottom of popular messenger programs. However, almost any component should work.

On Safari-IOS

On of the challenges we faced was how IOS frequently drew the keyboard or word-suggestions over content at the bottom of the screen. vue-bottom-bar has special css to prevent this use-case. This behavior is especially bad when using foriegn-input keyboards such as Japanese or Chinese.

Installation

yarn add @nagoos/vue-bottom-bar

Usage

1. Import the BottomBar component and the accompanying css.
2. Register the component by placing it in your single-file component's components section.
3. Wrap your own component(s) in <BottomBar><BottomBar/> tags
4. Your component(s) should be stuck to the bottom of the browser

<template>
  <BottomBar>
    <v-textarea :rows="1" placeholder="input here..." hide-details solo append-outer-icon="send"/>
  </BottomBar>
</template>

<script>
import BottomBar from "@nagoos/vue-bottom-bar";
import "@nagoos/vue-bottom-bar/dist/vue-bottom-bar.css";

export default {
  name: "App",
  components: {
    BottomBar
  }
};
</script>