Notes: All the examples below are only tested on Vue.js 1.0 (above).

Notes: The examples below use ES6 so it's recommended to use browserify or webpack to easily integrate babel.

when or where can we use this.$el

When you need to access DOM attribute, be careful with the lifecycle. Vue.js has a few useful lifecycle hooks.

Let's say we want to scroll our component to the bottom (imagine it's a long list with overflow-y: auto) once it's instantiate.