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Vue Toast Notification

Yet another Vue.js Toast notification plugin.

Demo or JSFiddle

Version matrix

Vue.js version	Package version	Branch
2.x	1.x	1.x
3.x	3.x	main

Installation

npm install vue-toast-notification@^3

Usage

Plugin usage

Install the plugin

import {createApp} from 'vue';
import ToastPlugin from 'vue-toast-notification';
// Import one of the available themes
//import 'vue-toast-notification/dist/theme-default.css';
import 'vue-toast-notification/dist/theme-bootstrap.css';

const app = createApp({});
app.use(ToastPlugin);
app.mount('#app');

Then use in your components

export default {
    mounted() {
        let instance = this.$toast.open('You did it!');

        // Force dismiss specific toast
        instance.dismiss();

        // Dismiss all opened toast immediately
        this.$toast.clear();
    }
}

Composition API usage

import {useToast} from 'vue-toast-notification';
import 'vue-toast-notification/dist/theme-sugar.css';

const $toast = useToast();
let instance = $toast.success('You did it!');

// Force dismiss specific toast
instance.dismiss();

// Dismiss all opened toast immediately
$toast.clear();

Available options

The API methods accepts these options:

Attribute	Type	Default	Description
message	String	--	Message text/html (required)
type	String	success	One of success, info, warning, error, default
position	String	bottom-right	One of top, bottom, top-right, bottom-right,top-left, bottom-left
duration	Number	3000	Visibility duration in milliseconds, set to 0 to keep toast visible
dismissible	Boolean	true	Allow user dismiss by clicking
onClick	Function	--	Do something when user clicks
onDismiss	Function	--	Do something after toast gets dismissed
queue	Boolean	false	Wait for existing to dismiss before showing new
pauseOnHover	Boolean	true	Pause the timer when mouse on over a toast

API methods

this.$toast.open(options)

This is generic method, you can use this method to make any kind of toast.

// Can accept a message as string and apply rest of options from defaults
this.$toast.open('Howdy!');

// Can accept an Object of options
this.$toast.open({
    message: 'Something went wrong!',
    type: 'error',
    // all of other options may go here
});

this.$toast.success(message,?options)

There are some proxy methods to make it more readable.

this.$toast.success('Profile saved.', {
    // optional options Object
})

this.$toast.error(message,?options)

this.$toast.warning(message,?options)

this.$toast.info(message,?options)

this.$toast.default(message,?options)

Global options

You can set options for all the instances during plugin initialization

app.use(VueToast, {
    // One of the options
    position: 'top'
})

Further you can override option when creating new instances

this.$toast.success('Order placed.', {
    // override the global option
    position: 'bottom'
})

Install in non-module environments (without webpack)

<!-- Vue.js -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@3"></script>
<!-- Lastly add this package -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue-toast-notification@3"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue-toast-notification@3/dist/theme-sugar.css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Init the plugin -->
<script>
    const app = Vue.createApp({});
    app.use(VueToast.ToastPlugin);
    app.mount('#app');
</script>

Run examples on your localhost

• Clone this repo
• Make sure you have node-js >=20.16 and pnpm >=9.3 pre-installed
• Install dependencies - pnpm install
• Run webpack dev server - pnpm start
• This should open the demo page in your default web browser

Acknowledgements

• Buefy Toast component

License

MIT License