Vue.js unknown custom element

Just define Vue.component() before new vue().

Vue.component('my-task',{
     .......
});

new Vue({
    .......
});

update

• HTML converts <anyTag> to <anytag>
• So don't use captital letters for component's name
• Instead of <myTag> use <my-tag>

Github issue : https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/2308

You forgot about the components section in your Vue initialization. So Vue actually doesn't know about your component.

Change it to:

var myTask = Vue.component('my-task', {
 template: '#task-template',
 data: function() {
  return this.tasks; //Notice: in components data should return an object. For example "return { someProp: 1 }"
 },
 props: ['task']
});

new Vue({
 el: '#app',
 data: {
  tasks: [{
    name: "task 1",
    completed: false
   },
   {
    name: "task 2",
    completed: false
   },
   {
    name: "task 3",
    completed: true
   }
  ]
 },
 components: {
  myTask: myTask
 },
 methods: {

 },
 computed: {

 },
 ready: function() {

 }

});

And here is jsBin, where all seems to works correctly: http://jsbin.com/lahawepube/edit?html,js,output

UPDATE

Sometimes you want your components to be globally visible to other components.

In this case you need to register your components in this way, before your Vue initialization or export (in case if you want to register component from the other component)

Vue.component('exampleComponent', require('./components/ExampleComponent.vue')); //component name should be in camel-case

After you can add your component inside your vue el:

<example-component></example-component>

This solved it for me: I supplied a third argument being an object.

in app.js (working with laravel and webpack):

Vue.component('news-item', require('./components/NewsItem.vue'), {
    name: 'news-item'
});

I just spared 1 hour with this message - usually easy to solve.

I got this error because I forgot to close my <script> tag in the parent component.

The browser console & my code editor gave no indication unfortunately.