A practical introduction to Vue.js: How to loop over arrays and objects

In the previous section (Course Part 3) we learned how to use v-if and v -show Perform conditional rendering. In this section we will learn how to loop over arrays and objects, in addition to applying some of the concepts we learned previously.

v-for

v-for is one of the basic instructions of Vue. Once you learn how to use it, you can Add more features to the program.

Simply put, v-for is a for loop. If you still don’t know what a for loop is, a for loop is actually a piece of code. Each element in the code will be executed once, and these elements are usually an Array (Array) or Object(Object).

Today, we’re going to start from the beginning so that everything we do has a clear purpose. Below is the basic structure of our index.html file, which you can copy and paste into your editor.

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    const app = new Vue({
      el: '#app',
      data: {

      },
      methods: {

      }
    });
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Let's create a simple array first so that we can use a loop to output the contents of the array. We will create a property in the data object called games. Of course, you can also choose a name you like???.

data: {
  games: [
    'Super Mario 64',
    'The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time',
    'Secret of Mana',
    'Super Metroid'
  ]
},

Now that we have the array set up, let's create a simple ff6d136ddc5fdfeffaf53ff6ee95f185 tag to display it.

<div id="app">
  <ul>
    <li>Game title here</li>
  </ul>
</div>

Looks great! Now we need to tell Vue that we want to output as many 25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 as possible in ff6d136ddc5fdfeffaf53ff6ee95f185 by looping through the array Label.

In other languages, you may have been accustomed to looping the output like this25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 Tag:

<?php foreach ($game in $games): ?>
  <li><?php echo $game; ?></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Will need to loop the output<li&gt ; tags are wrapped in a loop.

But in Vue, we can declare the v-for directive on the label we want to loop. First make the following changes in your 25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 tag, and then we will analyze it step by step.

<ul>
  <li v-for="game in games">{{ game }}</li>
</ul>

Let us analyze it in detail:

• v-for The command is added directly to 25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 tag instead of the ff6d136ddc5fdfeffaf53ff6ee95f185 tag we saw earlier. The reason for writing this is: "Create a 25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 tag for each game in our games array.

• Note that games is the attribute we added earlier in data, so we have to use this variable name.

• game This variable (singular) is defined by ourselves. We can use item, game, title or anything else we think is appropriate. name. But you must understand that this game is the variable you want to use in the loop.

• Finally, in our 25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 In the tag, we want to output the contents of the game variable, so when we run the loop, the strings in the games array will be output to &lt ;li> tag.

Open our index.html file in your browser, you should see games The contents of the array are output to the screen.

Increase the difficulty

So far, so good, right? v-for It's actually a very simple concept, but this example is too boring. Let's make things a little more complicated and interesting by including some objects in our array and using v-if, How's that?

First, let's update our games properties with some more interesting data.

data: {
  games: [
    { name: 'Super Mario 64', console: 'Nintendo 64', rating: 4 },
    { name: 'The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time', console: 'Nintendo 64', rating: 5 },
    { name: 'Secret of Mana', console: 'Super Nintendo', rating: 4 },
    { name: 'Fallout 76', console: 'Multiple', rating: 1 },
    { name: 'Super Metroid', console: 'Super Nintendo', rating: 6 }
  ]
},

If you run our program now, it won't go wrong , but it will only output the objects in games in string format, which is not pretty. In fact, we have to completely delete our ff6d136ddc5fdfeffaf53ff6ee95f185 tag and use dc6dce4a544fdca2df29d5ac0ea9906b tag to output our information. (Don’t worry, it will still look ugly if you use div?)

Replace the entire 9bb0587b0d0836c0bf8098a6d178452e 标签. 因为 game 是一个对象，而这个对象里又有自己的 name、console 和rating 属性。在 4a249f0d628e2318394fd9b75b4636b1 里面，我们要输出 game 内的 game.name 和 game.console。正如你现在所看到的那样，v-for 并不像我们之前只输出 25edfb22a4f469ecb59f1190150159c6 标签，实际上你可以根据你的需要输出不同的 HTML 标签。

嵌套的 v-for。在 span 标签里面，我们有一个嵌套的 v-for 循环(这完全是可以的)，只是有点不同，在这里我们没有循环数组或对象。而是循环了一个数值（在本例中是 game.rating，循环将根据 game.rating 的值开始计数，然后输出对应数量的❤️。很简单吧？)

最后是 v-if。我们要在循环中输出一个 dc6dce4a544fdca2df29d5ac0ea9906b 标签，只有当前 game.rating 的值大于 5 时，才会输出一个dc6dce4a544fdca2df29d5ac0ea9906b标签。

来吧，在浏览器中继续运行我们的 index.html 文件。

每次循环时可不可以不使用 DIV ？

如果你发现写了一大堆 dc6dce4a544fdca2df29d5ac0ea9906b 标签只是为了用 v-for 循环，那么可以使用 d477f9ce7bf77f53fbcf36bec1b69b7a 028402f0d1e2c7f0a5739e0164ec6833 这个特殊的 HTML 标签帮助你解决这个问题。

现在将带有 v-for 指令的 dc6dce4a544fdca2df29d5ac0ea9906b 标签改成 d477f9ce7bf77f53fbcf36bec1b69b7a 标签，然后打开你的开发者控制台，你会发现 4a249f0d628e2318394fd9b75b4636b1 和 45a2772a6b6107b401db3c9b82c049c2 标签没有被任何东西包裹。

d477f9ce7bf77f53fbcf36bec1b69b7a 很特别，因为 Vue 会把它当作一个只用来封装的标签，当我们执行的时候，它不会被渲染到 HTML 中，所以你可以安全地用它来封装一堆其他元素，而不影响你整体的 HTML 结构。

:key 属性

最后一件事：:key属性。我特意留到了最后来讲解。

当你用 v-for 循环时，Vue 不知道如何追踪每个元素，因为它不能将对象区别开来。这意味着 Vue 将重新渲染循环创建的整个部分。在我们的例子中，v-for 只是一个很小的部分，性能损失很小，但这些你应该牢记住。

现在，我们该如何使用它呢？

:key 接收字符串或数字来 “命名” 或 “追踪” 这个元素，所以我们需要给它一个唯一的标识符。对于我们的 games 来说，很简单，我们可以这样做：

<div v-for="game in games" :key="game.name">

我很确定，我们不会在这个列表中出现两次相同的 game 对象，所以这是相当安全的。如果你有来自数据库的数据，一个唯一的 id 在这里使用也很好。

如果你对 :key 的原理很好奇，你可以看看文档 Key的文档

既然你已经了解了这么多，我就再强调下文档的重要性。 Vue 的文档非常出色，文档团队在保持更新和清晰性方面做了很多努力并且通过代码示例把每个部分都解释的非常清楚。

最终代码

以防万一，这是最终的代码：

  




  <div v-for="game in games" :key="game.name">
    
{{ game.name }} - {{ game.console }}

    ❤️

    
Wow, this game must be REALLY good