Mobile Development with Ionic and Vue — Grid and Inputs

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If we know how to create Vue web apps but want to develop mobile apps, we can use the Ionic framework.

In this article, we’ll look at how to get started with mobile development with the Ionic framework with Vue.

Grid

We can add grids for layouts with Ionic.

To add it, we use the ion-grid , ion-row and ion-col components.

For example, we can write:

<template>
  <ion-grid>
    <ion-row>
      <ion-col> ion-col </ion-col>
      <ion-col> ion-col </ion-col>
      <ion-col> ion-col </ion-col>
      <ion-col> ion-col </ion-col>
    </ion-row>
  </ion-grid>
</template>

<script>
import { IonCol, IonGrid, IonRow } from "@ionic/vue";
import { defineComponent } from "vue";

export default defineComponent({
  components: { IonCol, IonGrid, IonRow },
});
</script>

We add the ion-grid to add the grid container.

ion-row has the rows, and ion-col has the columns.

The columns will be evenly distributed.

To add different size grids, we can write:

<template>
  <ion-grid>
    <ion-row>
      <ion-col size="6" size-lg offset="3">
        ion-col [size="6"] [size-lg] [offset="3"]
      </ion-col>
      <ion-col size="3" size-lg> ion-col [size="3"] [size-lg] </ion-col>
    </ion-row>
  </ion-grid>
</template>

<script>
import { IonCol, IonGrid, IonRow } from "@ionic/vue";
import { defineComponent } from "vue";

export default defineComponent({
  components: { IonCol, IonGrid, IonRow },
});
</script>

The size has the number of columns from 1 to 12.

size-lg makes the size large.

offset lets us set the offset.

Inputs

We can add a text input into our Ionic Vue app with the ion-input component.

For example, we can write:

<template>
  <ion-page>
    <ion-content>
      <ion-item>
        <ion-input placeholder="Enter Input" v-model="val"></ion-input>
      </ion-item>
      <ion-item>
        <ion-text>{{ val }}</ion-text>
      </ion-item>
    </ion-content>
  </ion-page>
</template>

<script>
import {
  IonLabel,
  IonInput,
  IonItem,
  IonContent,
  IonText,
  IonPage,
} from "@ionic/vue";
import { defineComponent, ref } from "vue";

export default defineComponent({
  components: { IonLabel, IonInput, IonItem, IonContent, IonText, IonPage },
  setup() {
    const val = ref("hello world");
    return {
      val,
    };
  },
});
</script>

to add a text input.

We use v-model to bind to the val reactive properties.

And we defined that in the setup method and returned it to do the binding.

Also, we can add a numeric input by setting the type to number :

<template>
  <ion-page>
    <ion-content>
      <ion-item>
        <ion-input type="number" v-model="val"></ion-input>
      </ion-item>
      <ion-item>
        <ion-text>{{ val }}</ion-text>
      </ion-item>
    </ion-content>
  </ion-page>
</template>

<script>
import {
  IonLabel,
  IonInput,
  IonItem,
  IonContent,
  IonText,
  IonPage,
} from "@ionic/vue";
import { defineComponent, ref } from "vue";

export default defineComponent({
  components: { IonLabel, IonInput, IonItem, IonContent, IonText, IonPage },
  setup() {
    const val = ref(0);
    return {
      val,
    };
  },
});
</script>

The disabled and readonly props disable interaction with the input.

readonly doesn’t change the styles.

Conclusion

We can add grids and inputs with Ionic Vue.