What is the difference between Ref() and Reactive() in Vue 3 Composition API?

Harish Kumar · · 2213 Views

The biggest feature of Vue 3 is the Composition API. This offers an elective way to deal with making components that is very different than the current options API.

With the Options API, we need to follow a few guidelines when defining reactive data, and the Composition API is the same. You can't simply declare data and anticipate that Vue should know that you might want it tracked for changes.

In Vue 3 Composition API, Ref() and Reactive() are the new ways of creating a reactive property.

Ref() vs Reactive()

REF

If you need to make a reactive property of primitive data type, ref() will be your best option. This is not the only option, but this is a good place to begin. In Javascript, seven primitive data types are:

  1. String

  2. Number

  3. BigInt

  4. Boolean

  5. Symbol

  6. Null

  7. Undefined

ref() takes an inner value and returns a reactive and mutable ref object. The ref object has a single property .value that focuses on the inner value. This implies that if you need to access or mutate the value you have to utilize title.value

REACTIVE

We just looked at certain examples of utilizing ref() when you need to define reactive data on primitive values. What happens if you need to make a reactive object? For that, you could utilize ref(). However, under the hood, it's simply calling reactive(). So, I will stick to using reactive().

On the other side of that reactive() won't work with primitive values. reactive() takes an object and returns a reactive proxy of the original. This is equivalent to 2.x's Vue.observable() and was renamed to avoid confusion with RxJS observables.

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