Vue Area Linkage Picker

vue-area-linkage is a Vue.js 2 component library providing province, city, and district linkage selection pickers. It offers both `AreaSelect` (dropdowns) and `AreaCascader` (cascading menu) components for geographical area selection within China. The current stable version is 5.1.0, and releases appear to be driven by feature enhancements, bug fixes, and updates to its underlying `area-data` dependency, without a fixed cadence. A key differentiator since v5.0.0 is that it no longer bundles area data internally, requiring users to explicitly pass `area-data` through the `data` prop, which significantly reduces bundle size and allows for more flexible, on-demand data loading. Earlier versions (pre-v4) supported street-level selection, which has since been removed.