Question - What do you understand by mapState helper?
Answer -
In the Vuex application, creating a computed property every time whenever we want to access the store's state property or getter is going to be repetitive, difficult, and boring, especially if a component needs more than one state property. In this situation, we can use the mapState helper of vuex, which generates computed getter functions for us.
In the following increment example, we have demonstrated the mapState helper:
// in full builds helpers are exposed as Vuex.mapState
import { mapState } from 'vuex'
export default {
// ...
computed: mapState({
// arrow functions can make the code very succinct!
username: state => state.username,
// passing the string value 'username' is same as `state => state.username`
usernameAlias: 'username',
// to access local state with `this`, a normal function must be used
greeting (state) {
return this.localTitle + state.username
}
})
}
You can also pass a string array to mapState when the name of a mapped computed property is the same as a state sub-tree name
computed: mapState([
// map this.username to store.state.username
'username'
])