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by manigandham 1776 days ago
Yes, Vue directives aren't JS. It's a separate DSL. The whole point is that it is a syntax that can be parsed, compiled and understood rather than just "strings".

I'm not sure why you're stuck on this. Templates are just a more simplistic programming language. That's how so many IDEs can still provide help with them.