explaingit

jbaysolutions/vue-grid-layout

★ 7,416JavaScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

TLDR

A Vue.js library that adds drag-and-drop and resizable panels to your web app, letting you build customizable dashboards without writing layout logic from scratch.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((vue-grid-layout))
    What it does
      Drag panels anywhere
      Resize widgets
      Save and restore layout
      Responsive breakpoints
    Tech Stack
      JavaScript
      Vue 2
    Use Cases
      Analytics dashboards
      Customizable home screens
    Audience
      Web developers
      Dashboard builders
Click or tap to explore — scroll the page freely

Code map

Detail Auto

An interactive map of this repo's files and how they connect — its source is parsed live in your browser. Click Visualize to build it.

filefunction / class

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a drag-and-drop analytics dashboard where users can rearrange and resize data widgets.

USE CASE 2

Create a customizable home screen with moveable panels that saves its layout between sessions.

USE CASE 3

Add a resizable multi-panel editor layout to a document or design tool built with Vue.js.

Tech stack

JavaScriptVue.js

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Requires a Vue 2 project, full documentation lives on a separate website, not in the README.

In plain English

vue-grid-layout is a JavaScript library for building dashboard-style grid interfaces in Vue.js applications. It lets users drag panels around the screen and resize them, similar to how widgets work in tools like analytics dashboards or customizable home screens. Developers add this library to a Vue.js project and it handles all the positioning logic, collision detection, and layout state management automatically. The main features described in the README are: draggable widgets, resizable widgets, static (non-moveable) widgets, boundary checking so items cannot be dragged off the grid, the ability to add or remove items without rebuilding the whole layout, saving and restoring a layout as serialized data, and responsive behavior that adapts to different screen sizes. There is also support for right-to-left text layouts, though resizing in that mode had a known issue at the time of the listed version. The library was heavily inspired by a similar library called React-Grid-Layout, which does the same thing for React-based projects. The current version (2.4.0) supports Vue 2.2 and above. Separate older branches exist for Vue 1 and for legacy browsers such as Internet Explorer 11, so teams stuck on older stacks can still use an earlier release. A few external projects are listed in the README as real-world examples of products built using this library, giving a sense of the typical use case: data dashboards and document tools. The README is concise and links out to a dedicated documentation website for full installation and configuration details. No installation steps or code examples appear in the README itself.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm using vue-grid-layout in Vue 2. Show me how to define an initial layout with three widgets and save it to localStorage when the user moves them.
Prompt 2
Using vue-grid-layout, how do I add a new widget to the grid at runtime without resetting the entire layout?
Prompt 3
Show me how to make some panels static and non-moveable in vue-grid-layout while keeping others draggable.
Prompt 4
How do I set up responsive breakpoints in vue-grid-layout so the grid rearranges on mobile screens?
Open on GitHub → Explain another repo

← jbaysolutions on gitmyhub — every repo by this author, as a profile.

Verify against the repo before relying on details.