Having trouble getting the keyboard to disappear for a search bar when working with NativeScript + Vue.js? Specifically with the SearchBar component, there isn’t an out of the box way of closing the keyboard without typing something and pressing the Search button. Closing the Keyboard Without searching you probably wouldn’t be able to figure this out, but the method that closes the keyboard is dismissSoftInput. To use it in combination with Vue.js you’ll need to first add a ref attribute to your component. Here’s an example: <SearchBar hint="Search…" ref="searchBar" /> Then in your method you would access the component like