Filtering Airtable records in Vue.js application

[TomDream42]

Hey everyone! I’m building a Vue.js app that pulls information from my Airtable database. Right now it shows all the records but I need help creating a filtering system.

My Airtable has educational data with different subjects like chemistry, physics, english etc. in one of the fields. What I want to do is let users pick a specific subject and only show those matching records.

Has anyone done something similar before? What’s the best approach to implement this kind of filtering functionality?

Any help would be great!

[jackw]

I built something almost identical last year for a learning platform. The trick is handling the filtering on the frontend after you get your data from Airtable.

Fetch all your records from Airtable and store them in your Vue component’s data. Then create a computed property that filters based on your selected subject.

Something like this works well:

computed: {
  filteredRecords() {
    if (!this.selectedSubject) return this.allRecords
    return this.allRecords.filter(record => 
      record.fields.subject === this.selectedSubject
    )
  }
}

For the UI, I used a simple select dropdown with all unique subjects. You can extract those from your data when it loads.

This approach is fast because you’re not hitting Airtable’s API every time someone changes the filter. Just handle the case where no subject is selected so users can see everything again.

Works great for datasets under a few thousand records. If you’ve got more than that, you might want server-side filtering instead.

[jess_brown]

the vue-select package is super handy for this, you can just bind it to a reactive var and watch for changes. also, a ‘clear filter’ button would be great for users to reset everything easily without needing a refresh!