Intuitive, type safe and flexible Store for Vue
- 💡 Intuitive
- 🔑 Type Safe
- ⚙️ Devtools support
- 🔌 Extensible
- 🏗 Modular by design
- 📦 Extremely light
- ⛰️ Nuxt Module
Pinia works with both Vue 2 and Vue 3.
Pinia is the most similar English pronunciation of the word pineapple in Spanish: piña. A pineapple is in reality a group of individual flowers that join together to create a multiple fruit. Similar to stores, each one is born individually, but they are all connected at the end. It's also a delicious tropical fruit indigenous to South America.
A few notes about the project and possible questions:
Q: Is Pinia the successor of Vuex?
A: Yes
Q: What about dynamic modules?
A: Dynamic modules are not type safe, so instead we allow creating different stores that can be imported anywhere
# or pnpm or yarn
npm install piniaCreate a pinia (the root store) and pass it to app:
// Vue 3
import { createApp } from 'vue'
import { createPinia } from 'pinia'
import App from './App.vue'
const pinia = createPinia()
const app = createApp(App)
app.use(pinia)
app.mount('#app')// Vue 2
import { createPinia, PiniaVuePlugin } from 'pinia'
Vue.use(PiniaVuePlugin)
const pinia = createPinia()
new Vue({
el: '#app',
// other options...
// ...
// note the same `pinia` instance can be used across multiple Vue apps on
// the same page
pinia,
})For more detailed instructions, including Nuxt configuration, check the Documentation.
You can create as many stores as you want, and they should each exist in different files:
import { defineStore } from 'pinia'
// main is the name of the store. It is unique across your application
// and will appear in devtools
export const useMainStore = defineStore('main', {
// a function that returns a fresh state
state: () => ({
counter: 0,
name: 'Eduardo',
}),
// optional getters
getters: {
// getters receive the state as first parameter
doubleCounter: (state) => state.counter * 2,
// use getters in other getters
doubleCounterPlusOne(): number {
return this.doubleCounter + 1
},
},
// optional actions
actions: {
reset() {
// `this` is the store instance
this.counter = 0
},
},
})defineStore returns a function that has to be called to get access to the store:
import { useMainStore } from '@/stores/main'
import { storeToRefs } from 'pinia'
export default defineComponent({
setup() {
const main = useMainStore()
// extract specific store properties
const { counter, doubleCounter } = storeToRefs(main)
return {
// gives access to the whole store in the template
main,
// gives access only to specific state or getter
counter,
doubleCounter,
}
},
})To learn more about Pinia, check its documentation.