How to implement social media share buttons in Vue.js

In this tutorial, we are going to implement the social media share button using Vue.js.

Here, we are using the dependency called vue-socials which is very handy while implementing social media share buttons. It contains almost all the social share button functionality that we need and is lightweight and highly customizable.

In this tutorial, we are going to implement the Facebook and Twitter share button as an example. 

Install Dependency:

Go to your project directory and install the dependency.

If you are using the npm package manager

For Vue 2: 

npm install vue-socials

For Vue 3:

npm install vue-socials@next

If you are using the yarn package manager

# Vue 2
yarn add vue-socials

# Vue 3
yarn add vue-socials@next

Now, it's time to import the required share button components. Here we are creating the SocialMediaShare.vue component for demo. 

Inside this component, we are going to import the Facebook and Twitter share button component as below:

import { SFacebook, STwitter } from 'vue-socials'

Now, we need to register the components

  components: { SFacebook, STwitter }

After component registration, let us use it into the template

<div >
    <s-facebook
            :window-features="windowFeatures"
            :share-options="facebookShareOptions"
            :use-native-behavior="useNativeBehavior"
            @popup-close="onClose"
            @popup-open="onOpen"
            @popup-block="onBlock"
            @popup-focus="onFocus"
            style="text-decoration:none"
    >
        <svg
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
                width="24"
                height="24"
                viewBox="0 0 24 24"
                aria-hidden="true"
                focusable="false"
        >
            <path d="M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z"/>
        </svg>
    </s-facebook>
    <s-twitter
            :window-features="windowFeatures"
            :share-options="twitterShareOptions"
            :use-native-behavior="useNativeBehavior"
            @popup-close="onClose"
            @popup-open="onOpen"
            @popup-block="onBlock"
            @popup-focus="onFocus"
            style="text-decoration:none"
    >
        <svg
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
                width="24"
                height="24"
                viewBox="0 0 24 24"
                aria-hidden="true"
                focusable="false"
        >
            <path
                    d="M24 4.557c-.883.392-1.832.656-2.828.775 1.017-.609 1.798-1.574 2.165-2.724-.951.564-2.005.974-3.127 1.195-.897-.957-2.178-1.555-3.594-1.555-3.179 0-5.515 2.966-4.797 6.045-4.091-.205-7.719-2.165-10.148-5.144-1.29 2.213-.669 5.108 1.523 6.574-.806-.026-1.566-.247-2.229-.616-.054 2.281 1.581 4.415 3.949 4.89-.693.188-1.452.232-2.224.084.626 1.956 2.444 3.379 4.6 3.419-2.07 1.623-4.678 2.348-7.29 2.04 2.179 1.397 4.768 2.212 7.548 2.212 9.142 0 14.307-7.721 13.995-14.646.962-.695 1.797-1.562 2.457-2.549z"
            />
        </svg>
    </s-twitter>
</div>

We are using some random SVG for icons, we can use the images or custom icons. 

Let's create the data and methods:

data () {
    return {
      windowFeatures: {},
      facebookShareOptions: {
        url: 'https://github.com/',
        quote: 'Quote',
        hashtag: '#Github',
      },
      twitterShareOptions: {
        url: 'https://github.com/',
        text: 'Hello world',
        hashtags: ['hash', 'tag'],
        via: 'twitterdev',
      },
      useNativeBehavior: false,
    }
  },
  methods:{
    onClose() {},
    onOpen() {},
    onBlock() {},
    onFocus() {},
  }

If we run the application we can see something like this:

Click on icons, we can share the content on those social media. We can change the content from data in component. 

For now, we are using the Github link and dummy text as examples.

If we want to import all the share buttons available then import all components as below inside main.js file.

 // Vue 2
import Vue from 'vue'
import VueSocials from 'vue-socials';

Vue.use(VueSocials)

// Vue 3

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import VueSocials from 'vue-socials';
import App from './App.vue'

const app = createApp(App)
app.use(VueSocials)

The overall implementation of the above example looks as below:

<template>
    <div >
        <s-facebook
                :window-features="windowFeatures"
                :share-options="facebookShareOptions"
                :use-native-behavior="useNativeBehavior"
                @popup-close="onClose"
                @popup-open="onOpen"
                @popup-block="onBlock"
                @popup-focus="onFocus"
                style="text-decoration:none"
        >
            <svg
                    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
                    width="24"
                    height="24"
                    viewBox="0 0 24 24"
                    aria-hidden="true"
                    focusable="false"
            >
                <path d="M9 8h-3v4h3v12h5v-12h3.642l.358-4h-4v-1.667c0-.955.192-1.333 1.115-1.333h2.885v-5h-3.808c-3.596 0-5.192 1.583-5.192 4.615v3.385z"/>
            </svg>
        </s-facebook>
        <s-twitter
                :window-features="windowFeatures"
                :share-options="twitterShareOptions"
                :use-native-behavior="useNativeBehavior"
                @popup-close="onClose"
                @popup-open="onOpen"
                @popup-block="onBlock"
                @popup-focus="onFocus"
                style="text-decoration:none"
        >
            <svg
                    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
                    width="24"
                    height="24"
                    viewBox="0 0 24 24"
                    aria-hidden="true"
                    focusable="false"
            >
                <path
                        d="M24 4.557c-.883.392-1.832.656-2.828.775 1.017-.609 1.798-1.574 2.165-2.724-.951.564-2.005.974-3.127 1.195-.897-.957-2.178-1.555-3.594-1.555-3.179 0-5.515 2.966-4.797 6.045-4.091-.205-7.719-2.165-10.148-5.144-1.29 2.213-.669 5.108 1.523 6.574-.806-.026-1.566-.247-2.229-.616-.054 2.281 1.581 4.415 3.949 4.89-.693.188-1.452.232-2.224.084.626 1.956 2.444 3.379 4.6 3.419-2.07 1.623-4.678 2.348-7.29 2.04 2.179 1.397 4.768 2.212 7.548 2.212 9.142 0 14.307-7.721 13.995-14.646.962-.695 1.797-1.562 2.457-2.549z"
                />
            </svg>
        </s-twitter>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
    import { SFacebook, STwitter } from 'vue-socials'

    export default {
        name: "SocialMediaShare",
        components: { SFacebook, STwitter },
        data () {
            return {
                windowFeatures: {},
                facebookShareOptions: {
                    url: 'https://github.com/',
                    quote: 'Quote',
                    hashtag: '#Github',
                },
                twitterShareOptions: {
                    url: 'https://github.com/',
                    text: 'Hello world',
                    hashtags: ['hash', 'tag'],
                    via: 'twitterdev',
                },
                useNativeBehavior: false,
            }
        },
        methods:{
            onClose() {},
            onOpen() {},
            onBlock() {},
            onFocus() {},
        }
    }
</script>

Check out for other share button lists, usage, and demo from these links.

vue social website

github page