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> In vue, you don't even touch the data, you just sprinkle an attribute on the existing html to augment functionality much like you'd do unobtrusive js w/ jquery.

I don't have a lot of experience with Vue, but I don't follow. You include Vue.js from CDN in a `script` tag, and then just add the `v-for` and `v-if` annotations to your HTML? How does Vue get the data, to properly iterate over it in `v-for` or check in `v-if`?

I'm really curious because I feel I'm missing some piece of puzzle here.

I think the idea is that the backend already iterates over the data and spits out for example a ul with a li per faq item. You edit the template the backend uses so that the vue annotations are also produced, which in theory is easier than changing the backend code.

EDIT:

Previous HTML outputted by for loop in backend template:

  <ul>
    <li>
      <h2>Question 1</h2>
      <p>Answer 1</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <h2>Question 2</h2>
      <p>Answer 2</p>
    </li>
  </ul>

New HTML outputted by for loop in backend template

  <ul>
    <li>
      <h2>
        <button v-on:click="expanded = 1">
          Question 1
        </button>
      </h2>
      <p v-if="expanded === 1">Answer 1</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <h2>
        <button v-on:click="expanded = 2">
          Question 2
        </button>
      </h2>
      <p v-if="expanded === 2">Answer 2</p>
    </li>
  </ul>

You pass data into it as json. Or load it from external source as json

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