--- title: "Vue.js — How I call a method in a component from outside the component" url: https://daily.dev/posts/vue-js-how-i-call-a-method-in-a-component-from-outside-the-component-h8m15vwkg source_url: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/vue-js-how-to-call-a-method-in-a-component-from-outside-the-component-1ac090f6af45 type: article source: "gitconnected" published: 2021-08-19T13:48:19.697Z updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z tags: ["javascript", "vuejs"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 10 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vue.js — How I call a method in a component from outside the component **[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 2 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vue.js — How I call a method in a component from outside the component in Vue 2. Jannick Holm gives some code examples on how you can implement some of my favorite methods in your Vue app. The $emit property is used for emitting a custom event from our child component and we can then listen for the same event in our parent component. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#vuejs](https://daily.dev/tags/vuejs) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/vue-js-how-i-call-a-method-in-a-component-from-outside-the-component-h8m15vwkg)