Weekly Vue News #123 - Composable to Define Keyboard Shortcuts

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Composable to Define Keyboard Shortcuts

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🔥 Vue Tip: Composable to Define Keyboard Shortcuts

I want to show you a handy Vue composable that allows you to define keyboard shortcuts in your app. I discovered it in Nuxt UI, and it's called defineShortcuts.

How to Use It

Let me first demonstrate how to use it. You can define your shortcuts in a setup function like this:

App.vue

            1 <script setup lang="ts">
              2 const isActive = ref(false)
              3 
              4 defineShortcuts({
              5   meta_k: {
              6     handler: () => {
              7       isActive.value = !isActive.value
              8     }
              9   }
              10 })
              11 </script>

I don't want to repeat the documentation, but let me highlight a few things:

Shortcuts can be combined with the _ character. For example, meta_k is the meta key (Command key on MacOS, Control on other OS) key and the k key.
usingInput is a flag that tells the composable to only trigger the shortcut when the user is not typing in an input field.
whenever is used to add constraints so that the shortcut is only triggered when the constraints are met. For example, you can use whenever: [isActive] to only trigger the shortcut when isActive is true.

Source Code

You can grab the source code from GitHub.

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