vue 组件原理及创建过程，

之前我们提到，当vue再挂载到真实dom元素上时，会执行所挂载vue对象的render函数，render函数主要内容就是执行 $creatElement返回一个vdom，而如果我们碰到的render函数的tag并不是一个普通标签，而是一个组件时，会执行createComponent 方法，创建一个组件vdom，这里面的逻辑是和其他vdom的创建非常不一样的，，我们进入代码

export function createComponent (
  Ctor: Class<Component> | Function | Object | void,
  data: ?VNodeData,
  context: Component,
  children: ?Array<VNode>,
  tag?: string
): VNode | Array<VNode> | void {
  if (isUndef(Ctor)) {
    return
  }

  const baseCtor = context.$options._base

  // plain options object: turn it into a constructor
  if (isObject(Ctor)) {
    Ctor = baseCtor.extend(Ctor)
  }

  // if at this stage it's not a constructor or an async component factory,
  // reject.
  if (typeof Ctor !== 'function') {
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
      warn(`Invalid Component definition: ${String(Ctor)}`, context)
    }
    return
  }

  // async component
  let asyncFactory
  if (isUndef(Ctor.cid)) {
    asyncFactory = Ctor
    Ctor = resolveAsyncComponent(asyncFactory, baseCtor, context)
    if (Ctor === undefined) {
      // return a placeholder node for async component, which is rendered
      // as a comment node but preserves all the raw information for the node.
      // the information will be used for async server-rendering and hydration.
      return createAsyncPlaceholder(
        asyncFactory,
        data,
        context,
        children,
        tag
      )
    }
  }

  data = data || {}

  // resolve constructor options in case global mixins are applied after
  // component constructor creation
  resolveConstructorOptions(Ctor)

  // transform component v-model data into props & events
  if (isDef(data.model)) {
    transformModel(Ctor.options, data)
  }

  // extract props
  const propsData = extractPropsFromVNodeData(data, Ctor, tag)

  // functional component
  if (isTrue(Ctor.options.functional)) {
    return createFunctionalComponent(Ctor, propsData, data, context, children)
  }

  // extract listeners, since these needs to be treated as
  // child component listeners instead of DOM listeners
  const listeners = data.on
  // replace with listeners with .native modifier
  // so it gets processed during parent component patch.
  data.on = data.nativeOn

  if (isTrue(Ctor.options.abstract)) {
    // abstract components do not keep anything
    // other than props & listeners & slot

    // work around flow
    const slot = data.slot
    data = {}
    if (slot) {
      data.slot = slot
    }
  }

  // install component management hooks onto the placeholder node
  installComponentHooks(data)

  // return a placeholder vnode
  const name = Ctor.options.name || tag
  const vnode = new VNode(
    `vue-component-${Ctor.cid}${name ? `-${name}` : ''}`,
    data, undefined, undefined, undefined, context,
    { Ctor, propsData, listeners, tag, children },
    asyncFactory
  )

  // Weex specific: invoke recycle-list optimized @render function for
  // extracting cell-slot template.
  // https://github.com/Hanks10100/weex-native-directive/tree/master/component
  /* istanbul ignore if */
  if (__WEEX__ && isRecyclableComponent(vnode)) {
    return renderRecyclableComponentTemplate(vnode)
  }

  return vnode
}

根据flow的定义我们可以看到这个函数会返回一个vdom或者vdom数组或者空，函数中有一个定义const baseCtor = context.$options._base,这个其实就是vm本身，然后执行 extend方法，这也是在Vue方法被定义时被同时初始化的方法，我们进入extend

  Vue.extend = function (extendOptions: Object): Function {
    extendOptions = extendOptions || {}
    const Super = this
    const SuperId = Super.cid
    const cachedCtors = extendOptions._Ctor || (extendOptions._Ctor = {})
    if (cachedCtors[SuperId]) {
      return cachedCtors[SuperId]
    }

    const name = extendOptions.name || Super.options.name
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' && name) {
      validateComponentName(name)
    }

    const Sub = function VueComponent (options) {
      this._init(options)
    }
    Sub.prototype = Object.create(Super.prototype)
    Sub.prototype.constructor = Sub
    Sub.cid = cid++
    Sub.options = mergeOptions(
      Super.options,
      extendOptions
    )
    Sub['super'] = Super

    // For props and computed properties, we define the proxy getters on
    // the Vue instances at extension time, on the extended prototype. This
    // avoids Object.defineProperty calls for each instance created.
    if (Sub.options.props) {
      initProps(Sub)
    }
    if (Sub.options.computed) {
      initComputed(Sub)
    }

    // allow further extension/mixin/plugin usage
    Sub.extend = Super.extend
    Sub.mixin = Super.mixin
    Sub.use = Super.use

    // create asset registers, so extended classes
    // can have their private assets too.
    ASSET_TYPES.forEach(function (type) {
      Sub[type] = Super[type]
    })
    // enable recursive self-lookup
    if (name) {
      Sub.options.components[name] = Sub
    }

    // keep a reference to the super options at extension time.
    // later at instantiation we can check if Super's options have
    // been updated.
    Sub.superOptions = Super.options
    Sub.extendOptions = extendOptions
    Sub.sealedOptions = extend({}, Sub.options)

    // cache constructor
    cachedCtors[SuperId] = Sub
    return Sub
  }
}

首先这里判断了一下缓存，如果已有此组件的缓存，直接返回，否则的话，将会返回一个继承了Vue的子组件构造器函数，Sub.prototype=object.create(super.prototype)Sub ，
重新回到createComponent中，中间有一些异步组件的逻辑判断，对v-model的判断，对hooks的添加，最后返回一个component 类型的vnode，然后重新回到 之前提到的_update，进入里面的patch方法，，patch中对组件的vnode也有不同的处理，会判断vnode 是否时component类型，如果是的话，经过一些步骤，最后在init hooks中，，会执行子组件构造器的init(继承于vue)方法，init 方法重新回到最初始的init方法，

Vue.prototype._init = function (options?: Object) {
    const vm: Component = this
    // a uid
    vm._uid = uid++

    let startTag, endTag
    /* istanbul ignore if */
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' && config.performance && mark) {
      startTag = `vue-perf-start:${vm._uid}`
      endTag = `vue-perf-end:${vm._uid}`
      mark(startTag)
    }

    // a flag to avoid this being observed
    vm._isVue = true
    // merge options
    if (options && options._isComponent) {
      // optimize internal component instantiation
      // since dynamic options merging is pretty slow, and none of the
      // internal component options needs special treatment.
      initInternalComponent(vm, options)
    } else {
      vm.$options = mergeOptions(
        resolveConstructorOptions(vm.constructor),
        options || {},
        vm
      )
    }
    /* istanbul ignore else */
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
      initProxy(vm)
    } else {
      vm._renderProxy = vm
    }
    // expose real self
    vm._self = vm
    initLifecycle(vm)
    initEvents(vm)
    initRender(vm)
    callHook(vm, 'beforeCreate')
    initInjections(vm) // resolve injections before data/props
    initState(vm)
    initProvide(vm) // resolve provide after data/props
    callHook(vm, 'created')

    /* istanbul ignore if */
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' && config.performance && mark) {
      vm._name = formatComponentName(vm, false)
      mark(endTag)
      measure(`vue ${vm._name} init`, startTag, endTag)
    }

    if (vm.$options.el) {
      vm.$mount(vm.$options.el)
    }
  }

这里注意一下initlifecycle，这里会保存一下当前组件的父组件，从而能够构造出父子关系，然后这里因为子组件的option没有el，$mount 不会在这里执行，会在上一个函数执行子构造函数的mount方法，然后又回到之前的mountComponent ,new Watcher(),updateComponent,然后执行子组件的render函数，update，子组件的patch，creatElem，注意，这里不会执行insert方法，真正的执行真实dom树插入，而是停在dom树创建完毕的情况，当然，如果在creatElem 过程中如果又碰到组件还会执行这一整个组件的处理流程，通过这样一个深度优先遍历 整个嵌套组件的dom tree便会完美的构建完成，最后一次性插入到真实dom中