Can't set property inside of Axios promise in Vue JS

Question

i'm trying to use VueJS and Axios to make an HTTP request to a Laravel backend to get some JSON and then use the JSON to update an errorMessage property on my Component.

            Axios.post('/api/login', {
                email: this.email,
                password: this.password
            }).then((response) => {
                this.errorMessage = response.message;
            }).catch((error) => {
                console.error(error);
            })

The problem is that it's not being able to reference this.errorMessage for some reason, am i doing anything wrong here? I'm correctly making the HTTP request and the JSON response comes back just as expected if i console.log it, but when i try to manipulate this.errorMessage it says that it's undefined even though i've already manipulated it with success elsewhere...

Here is the entire code for this component

export default {
    methods: {
        submitForm: function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();

            Axios.post('/api/login', {
                email: this.email,
                password: this.password
            }).then((response) => {
                debugger;
                this.errorMessage = response.data.message;
            }).catch((error) => {
                console.error(error);
            });
        }
    },
    data: function() {
        return {
            errorMessage: null,
            email: null,
            password: null
        }
    },
    components: {
        'error': Error
    }
}   

SOLUTION:

The original request is correct, fat arrow functions should keep the value of this, the issue was with Chrome's Debugger, which showed the values to me as undefined even though they weren't... Sorry for the silly question, i hope this will help other people coming across this kind of issue.

Answer 1

Axios.post is closer function so property define within it looks like private under closer function.

You have to define variable outside closer like this :

//this will pick your data.
let self = this;


Axios.post('/api/login', {
     email: this.email,
     password: this.password
  }).then((response) => {
  self.errorMessage = response.message;
            }).catch((error) => {
                console.error(error);
            })

Also if response.message is undefined then use response.body.message or the returning variable from laravel.