This documents advanced and/or uncommon patterns found in Matomo's use of Vue.
In Vue, directives are meant to be stateless. The same is not true in AngularJS, the previous framework Matomo used. During the migration from AngularJS to Vue, several stateful directives were migrated using a hacky pattern. The pattern is basically just to store state in the binding value, which must be an object that is supplied by the user of the directive. Since the value is static and cannot be changed by the component that uses the directive, this pattern works.
Important: new Vue code should not create stateful directives, this is just to document the existing directives.
Directives that do this include:
