laravel + vue router cannot get parameters from url - laravel-5

Question

I try to get parameters from url
let's say url contains:
localhost:8000/blog?q=hello
I want to grab hello to trigger function call
What I had declare in app.js in laravel webpack:
import VueRouter from 'vue-router';
Vue.use(VueRouter);
const router = new VueRouter({
mode: 'history',
routes: []
})
const app = new Vue({
router
});
export default app;
In blog page, I try to extract the parameter from url
new Vue ({
el: "#blog-content",
},
mounted: function() {
q = this.$route.query.q
console.log(q)
}
)
I npm run dev to compile and run the blog page it show error:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'query' of undefined
what is wrong? I am sure that Vue Router is properly installed in the application.

Answer 1

I think that the blog page that you use is not correct.
You recreate another Vue instance and in that case that new instance doesn't have a router passed to it. So I think that's why this.$router is undefined.
Also you don't pass the view Component to your router so it doesn't know what to look for with the specific url.
Here's your app.js file corrected
import VueRouter from 'vue-router';
Vue.use(VueRouter);
import Blog from './views/Blog';
const router = new VueRouter({
mode: 'history',
routes: [
{
path: '/blog',
name: 'blog',
component: Blog
},
]
});
The blog view page template : views/Blog.vue
<template>
<div class="wrapper">
My blog page
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
myvariable : ''
}
},
mounted() {
let q = this.$route.query.q;
console.log(q);
},
};
</script>
Now it should works correctly :)
Edit : Also you don't need to export the app variable in your app.js
Remove the following line export default app; at the end of the file