Vue JS Watching deep nested object

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Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at building an MVVM app I have also not worked with vue.js before, so it could well be that my issue is a result of a more

Answer 1

Since nobody replied and I have solved/ worked around the issue by now, I thought it migth be useful to post my solution. Please note that I am not sure my solution is how these types of things should be tackled, it works though.

Instead of using this event listener v-on="change: checkboxChange(this)" I am now using a custom directive which listens to both the selected and disabled model attribute, like this: v-on-filter-change="selected, disabled".

The directive looks like this:

directives: {
    'on-filter-change': function(newVal, oldVal) {
        // When the input elements are first rendered, the on-filter-change directive is called as well, 
        // but I only want stuff to happen when a user does someting, so I return when there is no valid old value
        if (typeof oldVal === 'undefined') {
            return false;
        }
        // Do stuff here
        // this.vm is a handy attribute that contains some vue instance information as well as the current object
        // this.expression is another useful attribute with which you can assess which event has taken place
    }
},

The if clause seems a bit hacky, but I couldn't find another way. At least it all works.

Perhaps this will be useful to someone in the future.