Course introduction to "Build a Vue.js Resume". Prerequisites, course content, and a look at the final product.

Course introduction to "Build a Vue.js Resume"

Get an overview about Vue.js and learn about why Vue is a progressive framework, the different APIs, and the virual DOM.

Why you should learn Vue.js

Learn why Vue.js is essential and a get a sneak-peak of the Resume Builder that you will untimatly create at the end of the this course.

Introduction

How to setup a Vue.js project. Use create-vue to generate a new project. Learn about folder and file structure in Vue.js.

Project setup for building a Vue.js resume

Add basic markup and styling to the resume app. Learn about scoped styling in Vue.js.

Basic markup and styling

How to render data from component state. Learn about Vue.js directives, and reactive rendering.

Component state and rendering data from it

Set up the project and add basic markup and styling for your resume. You will also learn about the template, style, and script section in a Single-File component in Vue.

Project setup & rendering the resume

Make the resume content editable by learning the v-model and the v-on directive, methods, and how to handle events in Vue.js.

Editing the resume content

Create Vue.js single file components and learn about slots, props, and custom events.

Improving the code structure

Add and remove resume entries dynamically by learning how to work with arrays in Vue.js. Learn about conditional rendering with the v-if directive.

Adding and removing entries

Create a Vue.js toggle switch component and toggle the edit mode in the resume builder app.

Toggling edit mode

Make the resume content editable and learn about template directives, component methods, slots, props, conditional rendering, custom events for interacting between components, and class bindings.

Making the resume editable

Make styling configurable with Vue.js class and style binding. Create a color input component, a select component, and more.

Make styling configurable

Configure the photo of the resume builder. Learn how to upload an image as a data url and toggle visibility.

Configuring the photo

Make the resume styling configurable and work on inline style binding and computed properties. Learn how to display, hide, and replace a picture by adding an upload functionality.

Configurable resume styling

Add an export as PDF functionality to the resume builder. Integrate the jsPdf library into your app.

Export resume as PDF

Save the resume configuration by learning about Vue.js lifecycle hooks, localStorage, and JavaScript Blob objects.

Save the resume configuration

Explore the documentation further and try it out in this app.

Where to take it from here

Learn about lifecycle methods to save resume configutaion, and export the resume as a PDF. Learn how you can customize the resume builder further on your own.

Exporting the pdf, saving the configuration, further steps

A resume that you created on a **Vue.js Resume Builder**, a Vue.js Resume Builder that **YOU** created! Now **THAT’s** the good stuff. That’s that stuff that distinguishes **YOU** from the flock of **“Word” and “PDF”**.

### 5 Reason for Creating your Resume Builder in Vue

1. Vue.js is very **performant**: It works with a virtual DOM, a lightweight representation of the actual DOM. It allows Vue to optimize updates and significantly improves performance.

2. With its component-based development, Vue helps **structure code**, which makes maintaining it easier.

3. Vue.js simplifies the **rendering of content** immensely: When your data changes, the connected part of the DOM automatically re-renders.

4. Vue is a **progressive framework**: That means you can introduce Vue into an existing project. You don't have to rewrite everything, instead, you can only use Vue for a specific page or section of your project.

5. It is **open-source**, and you can be sure that it will be continued due to its popularity.

### Overcoming Challenges in Vue and Developing a Resume Builder

If you are already familar with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, with the gentlest learning curve, Vue is your doorway into a fully-fledged front-end or even a full-stack web developer.

Mastering Vue can present a learning curve for absolute beginners unfamiliar with CSS, HTML, and JavaSrcript, this is due to its extensive features and concepts like data properties, methods, computed properties, custom events, and lifecycle hooks. While Vue offers excellent [documentation](https://vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html), it can be challenging for developers to get a deeper understanding without a structured learning path.

The best way to familarize yourself with a new framework is to work on a portfolio project, and this course is exactly that. You won't find anything about creating a portfolio project in any offical documentation. This course also provides a **structured learning path**, breaking down complex concepts into manageable lessons.

Our aim is to ensure that you progressively build your understanding of Vue, starting from the basics and advancing to more complex topics. And thus, this course is tailored for Vue.js beginners, leveraging the Options API in Vue 3 for its **beginner-friendly** approach.

We emphasize practical application as the most effective way to become familiar with the material, ensuring you apply newly introduced concepts from the course's very first lesson. Instead of practicing on simple to-do list apps, you have the opportunity to create a substantial portfolio project that you can showcase to friends, potential employers, and even use for yourself to create a Developer Resume.

### Course Content Overview
Course Overview:
Total Modules: **5**
Total Lessons: **14**
Total Video Runtime: **1 hour, 30 minutes**

Enhance your Portfolio with a Kickass Vue 3 Resume Builder

“**Word” or “PDF” resume pfft!** You’re better than that and you know it. In this course, you will create a **customizable developer resume from scratch in Vue.js** with features and tools to make meaningful changes in the content and the design of your developer resume.

This course will also teach you all the fundamental concepts of Vue, with code-along video lessons, detailed explanations, and hands-on exercises. By the end of the course, you'll have a deep **understanding of Vue**, a **stylish developer resume**, and a **portfolio project** that demonstrates your Vue knowledge.

Interactive Vue.js Resume Builder

Creating a highly configurable and customizable Resume Bilder in Vue

Setting up Vue projects with the Single File Components architecture

Component reactivity and dynamic data rendering with Vue directives

Computed properties and component methods

Communication between components via props and custom events

Conditional styling through class and inline style bindings

If you understand JavaScript well, Vue.js should be easy to learn. To help with that, Vue provides excellent 

Vue.js is very performant. Vue works with a virtual DOM, a lightweight representation of the actual DOM. It allows Vue to optimize updates and significantly improve performance compared to traditional DOM manipulation with JavaScript.

Vue.js is reactive, meaning the content you render is tied to your data. Once part of your data changes, the connected part of the DOM automatically re-renders.

Vue.js also offers many rendering options, from showing or hiding content to rendering lists of content. It can speed up development immensely once you are familiar with it.
With its component-based development, Vue also helps structure code, which makes maintaining it easier.

Vue puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that it is a progressive framework. You can understand progressive as in incrementally adoptable.
That means you can introduce Vue into an existing project step by step. You don't have to rewrite everything, instead, you can only use Vue for a specific page or section of your app.

Vue.js is quite easy to start with and has several options that can make it more complex.
Since Vue 3, you can use the 

They are different interfaces powered by the exact same underlying system and the fundamental concepts and knowledge about Vue are shared across the two styles.

In this project, we will use the Options API. With this API, you structure the code in JavaScript objects. This makes sense for people who are used to group code in an object-oriented way.
The Composition API is also great. It has some advantages for bigger projects and when adding Typescript but we will not be using TypeScript for this project. I've chosen the Options API because it is generally considered more beginner-friendly. Once you know the Options API syntax well, you can learn the Composition API in just a few hours of reading the 

If you check out the official Vue.js documentation, you will find a toggle switch for those two API styles on the left. You can see that the code changes when you toggle. Keep this in mind when you read up on stuff! Per default, the Composition API is activated in the documentation, so while working with the Options API, remember to switch the toggle.

, who still maintains it together with his team. It is open-source, and you can be sure that it will be continued due to its popularity.

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## Why you should learn Vue.js

If you understand JavaScript well, Vue.js should be easy to learn. To help with that, Vue provides excellent [documentation](https://vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html) with many examples.

Vue.js is very performant. Vue works with a virtual DOM, a lightweight representation of the actual DOM. It allows Vue to optimize updates and significantly improve performance compared to traditional DOM manipulation with JavaScript.

Vue.js is reactive, meaning the content you render is tied to your data. Once part of your data changes, the connected part of the DOM automatically re-renders.

Vue.js also offers many rendering options, from showing or hiding content to rendering lists of content. It can speed up development immensely once you are familiar with it.
With its component-based development, Vue also helps structure code, which makes maintaining it easier.

Vue puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that it is a progressive framework. You can understand progressive as in incrementally adoptable.
That means you can introduce Vue into an existing project step by step. You don't have to rewrite everything, instead, you can only use Vue for a specific page or section of your app.

Vue.js is quite easy to start with and has several options that can make it more complex.
Since Vue 3, you can use the **Composition API** as well as the **Options API**. As the official Vue.js [documentation](https://vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html#api-styles) states:

> They are different interfaces powered by the exact same underlying system and the fundamental concepts and knowledge about Vue are shared across the two styles.

In this project, we will use the Options API. With this API, you structure the code in JavaScript objects. This makes sense for people who are used to group code in an object-oriented way.
The Composition API is also great. It has some advantages for bigger projects and when adding Typescript but we will not be using TypeScript for this project. I've chosen the Options API because it is generally considered more beginner-friendly. Once you know the Options API syntax well, you can learn the Composition API in just a few hours of reading the [documentation](https://vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html#api-styles) and practicing.

If you check out the official Vue.js documentation, you will find a toggle switch for those two API styles on the left. You can see that the code changes when you toggle. Keep this in mind when you read up on stuff! Per default, the Composition API is activated in the documentation, so while working with the Options API, remember to switch the toggle.

Vue was created by a guy named [Evan You](https://evanyou.me), who still maintains it together with his team. It is open-source, and you can be sure that it will be continued due to its popularity.
