How to watch store values from vuex?

I am using vuex and vuejs 2 together.

I am new to vuex, I want to watch a store variable change.

I want to add the watch function in my vue component

This is what I have so far:

import Vue from 'vue';
import {
  MY_STATE,
} from './../../mutation-types';

export default {
  [MY_STATE](state, token) {
    state.my_state = token;
  },
};

I want to know if there are any changes in the my_state

How do I watch store.my_state in my vuejs component?

Answer

You should not use component’s watchers to listen to state change. I recommend you to use getters functions and then map them inside your component.

import { mapGetters } from 'vuex'

export default {
  computed: {
    ...mapGetters({
      myState: 'getMyState'
    })
  }
}

In your store:

const getters = {
  getMyState: state => state.my_state
}

You should be able to listen to any changes made to your store by using this.myState in your component.

https://vuex.vuejs.org/en/getters.html#the-mapgetters-helper