[parr0t]

This is essentially my chain of thought and what I have done. Even if it is a simple request that is confined to a single component when a developer looks at the codebase they can know that all API calls are called from Vuex modules and not modules _and_ components.

That then leads me to my next question though, if I am using Vuex to abstract the API calls is it bad practice to use Vuex actions for API calls that don't need to be saved into the store?

[RussianCow]

I don't think it's bad at all to have an action trigger an API call that doesn't save anything to the store. However, as @mmcnl said in response to your original comment, you probably want to abstract the actual API-related code into its own module, so that you don't implement the API calls in the actions; then your actions become thin functions that simply call that code with the necessary parameters.