Vue: KeepAlive support for switching the same component

[miljan-aleksic]

Maybe there is a reason why this is not supported and perhaps there are better ways of achieving what I need. So I will explain both, what is not working and why I think I need it.

I am working on Vuikit Tabs update to allow preserving the components states. For such I did few tests with keep-alive

Test 1 - keep-alive with different components. Works fine - https://jsfiddle.net/miljan/fcmkwyLr/
Test 2 - keep-alive with same component. Fails - https://jsfiddle.net/miljan/kksp2o4u/

The only different between these two tests is the components being used. I would expect keep-alive to support caching the same component. Is there any reason behind it or is a bug?

Vue.js version

2.1.10

[fnlctrl]

Hi, thanks for filing this issue. You can simply key the components and it should work as expected: https://jsfiddle.net/s2x6L3z0/

[miljan-aleksic]

@fnlctrl, got it working. Thank you very much!