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

The browser does not understand Vue.js code. The browser only understands JavaScript.
Therefore, something needs to translate Vue.js code into JavaScript so our browser can understand it.
There are different ways of accomplishing this. A simple but also limited way is to load Vue via a CDN.
You just add a script tag to your html that will load the Vue.js library.

The advantage of this is that it is the fastest setup, which makes it great for prototyping.
The big disadvantage is that you cannot create Single-File components (SFC). With the Single-File component structure, each file contains one component.
Without this, the code can get messy once you create more than a few components. You are also dependent on the external server to serve the Vue.js library reliably.
So this makes it not the right choice for us.

We want to be able to use SFC so we will need a build tool. But we want a simple setup and configuration, too.
That is where 

 come in. These tools generate a preconfigured project for you.
In other words, we get a folder with the code and configuration files we need to start.
A Vite-based scaffolding tool called 

 is recommended to be used as of 2023.
It was created by Evan You, the same guy who created Vue (and so was Vite itself). Since this is the officially recommended setup, we will go with that.

 in the directory where you want your project to be. Make sure your node version is up to date before you run it. As of December 2023, 

 requires at least version 16.0 but you should check the 

 for the current minimum required. I am using node in version 18.17.1 and npm in version 9.6.7. You can check which versions of node and npm you are running with this command.

Now, we need to enter a project name. We type resume-builder and hit enter.
It asks us to install packages:

You can install these tools later on if you like, but for the beginning, let's keep things simple. Now that this is done, you can see that the scaffolding tool created a new folder in your current directory with the name of your app. It also gives you the commands to execute in order. First, we 

 (which stands for change directory) into the resume builder folder. You see all the files it created automatically for us. You will also notice that there has yet to be a node_modules folder. The scaffolding tool created the package.json, but we still need to install the dependencies listed there. We do this by running the 

 always needs to be run from the directory the package.json is in, so make sure you are in the resume-builder directory when you run it. Now we see a node_modules folder. If you look inside, you see that plenty of dependencies were installed.

The package.json shows us the dependencies. Our only dependency that we will need for production is Vue, the two Vite dependencies are only needed during development.
Depending on when you watch this tutorial the versions might differ.
What's important is that you use Vue 3.x. Which Vite version it installs should not make a noticeable difference.

resume-builder

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## Project setup for building a Vue.js resume

The browser does not understand Vue.js code. The browser only understands JavaScript.
Therefore, something needs to translate Vue.js code into JavaScript so our browser can understand it.
There are different ways of accomplishing this. A simple but also limited way is to load Vue via a CDN.
You just add a script tag to your html that will load the Vue.js library.

```html
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.global.js"></script>
```

The advantage of this is that it is the fastest setup, which makes it great for prototyping.
The big disadvantage is that you cannot create Single-File components (SFC). With the Single-File component structure, each file contains one component.
Without this, the code can get messy once you create more than a few components. You are also dependent on the external server to serve the Vue.js library reliably.
So this makes it not the right choice for us.

We want to be able to use SFC so we will need a build tool. But we want a simple setup and configuration, too.
That is where [scaffolding tools](https://vuejs.org/guide/scaling-up/tooling.html#project-scaffolding) come in. These tools generate a preconfigured project for you.
In other words, we get a folder with the code and configuration files we need to start.
A Vite-based scaffolding tool called [create-vue](https://github.com/vuejs/create-vue) is recommended to be used as of 2023.
It was created by Evan You, the same guy who created Vue (and so was Vite itself). Since this is the officially recommended setup, we will go with that.

Run `npm create vue@latest` in the directory where you want your project to be. Make sure your node version is up to date before you run it. As of December 2023, `create-vue` requires at least version 16.0 but you should check the [vue quick start documentation](https://vuejs.org/guide/quick-start) for the current minimum required. I am using node in version 18.17.1 and npm in version 9.6.7. You can check which versions of node and npm you are running with this command.

```bash
node -v
```

and 

```bash
npm -v
```

```bash
npm create vue@latest
```

Now, we need to enter a project name. We type resume-builder and hit enter.
It asks us to install packages:

-   Add Typescript?: No
-   Add JSX Support? No
-   Vue Router? Vue Router is something you need when you have more than one page. We start with one page now, so we keep the default “No” by hitting enter.
-   Pinia: No
-   Vitest: No
-   End-to-End Testing: No
-   ESLint: No

You can install these tools later on if you like, but for the beginning, let's keep things simple. Now that this is done, you can see that the scaffolding tool created a new folder in your current directory with the name of your app. It also gives you the commands to execute in order. First, we `cd` (which stands for change directory) into the resume builder folder. You see all the files it created automatically for us. You will also notice that there has yet to be a node_modules folder. The scaffolding tool created the package.json, but we still need to install the dependencies listed there. We do this by running the `npm install`.
`npm install` always needs to be run from the directory the package.json is in, so make sure you are in the resume-builder directory when you run it. Now we see a node_modules folder. If you look inside, you see that plenty of dependencies were installed.