Vue Flexible Link

Tiny Vue Component to open a link in Electron or Web environment

• If you are in a electron app opens the link in a new browser tab with the shell.openExternal API.
• If you are in a web, the component will be a regular web link

This component was tested with webpack only

Installation

npm install --save vue-flexible-link

or

yarn add vue-flexible-link

Usage

<flexible-link :native="isElectronBuild" href="https://github.com/upclab/finance-wheel">
  <span class="icon" style="color: #333;">
    <icon name="github" scale="3"></icon>
  </span>
</flexible-link>

<script>
import FlexibleLink from 'vue-flexible-link/src/FlexibleLink';

export default {
  data() {
    return {
      /*
        In this example ELECTRON_BUILD is a global variable
        defined at compile time
      */
      isElectronBuild: !!ELECTRON_BUILD,
    };
  },
  components: {
    FlexibleLink,
  },
};
</script>

Props

| Prop | Type | Description | Default Value | |:----------------:|:-------:| -------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | native | Boolean | If this build is in a native(electron) environment | true | | custom-class | String | Use your custom class on the component | - | | href | String | Attach your href on the component | '/' | | target | String | Attach the target like 'blank' | '_self' |

1. Cross Environment(Web and Electron)

You need the import the non-compiled component

import FlexibleLink from 'vue-flexible-link/src/FlexibleLink'

And you need the add the node's fs mock to your webpack configuration to get this working:

entry: {
// ...
},
output: {
// ...
},
module: {
// ...
},
node: {
  fs: 'empty', // fs works only with the 'empty' value 
},

2. For Electron Environment Only

You can import the component like this

    import FlexibleLink from 'vue-flexible-link'

And you should be fine

3. For Web Environment Only

Yeah, this component doesn't make sense if you are building a web app only. Don't use it.

Roadmap

• Add functionality to check the environment automatically