Parent-child communication in VueJS

Child component (a row) sends event to parent component to delete itself, via $emit

by Edward Tanguay

HTML

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/2.0.3/vue.js"></script>
<body>
    <div id="app"></div>
</body>

JavaScript

Vue.component('row-component', {
    props: ["rowData"],
    template: `
        <div>
            row component: {{rowData}}
            <button @click="$emit('delete-row')">Delete</button>
        </div>`
})

new Vue({
    el: '#app',
    template: `
        <div>
            <row-component v-for="(row, index) in rows" :row-data="row" v-on:delete-row="deleteThisRow(index)"></row-component>
        </div>
    `,
    data: {
        rows: ["line1", "line2", "line3", "line4", "line5"]
    },
    methods: {
        deleteThisRow: function(index) {
            this.rows.splice(index, 1);
        }
    }
})