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Vue.js Fundamentals

Build modern, reactive front-end applications with Vue 3, components, routing, state, forms, and production-ready patterns.

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20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
7.1
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Vue.js Fundamentals Course

Vue.js Fundamentals is a practical Web Development course designed to help you build modern Vue 3 applications from the ground up. You will learn how Vue works, how to structure interactive interfaces, and how to apply production-ready patterns for real front-end projects.

Build Modern Web Development Skills With Vue.js Fundamentals

  • Learn Vue 3 foundations including templates, data binding, directives, events, and reactive updates.
  • Build modern, reactive front-end applications with Vue 3, components, routing, state, forms, and production-ready patterns.
  • Create reusable components with props, custom events, slots, lifecycle hooks, and flexible layouts.
  • Prepare applications for real use with testing, accessibility, performance optimization, production builds, and deployment.

This course teaches Vue.js Fundamentals for building maintainable, interactive, and production-ready Web Development projects.

In this course, you will start with the core ideas behind Vue 3, including templates, data binding, conditional rendering, lists, and user interaction. These lessons give you the foundation to understand how Vue turns data into dynamic interfaces and how reactive updates keep the user experience smooth and responsive.

You will then move into components, one of the most important patterns in modern Web Development. You will learn how to build reusable components, pass data with props, communicate between parent and child components, use slots for flexible layouts, and manage side effects with lifecycle hooks. These skills help you create applications that are easier to maintain, extend, and reuse across projects.

The course also introduces the Composition API and composables, showing you how to organize logic cleanly as your applications grow. You will practice common application features such as forms, validation patterns, API data fetching, routing with Vue Router, and shared state management with Pinia.

By the end of Vue.js Fundamentals, you will understand how to structure a complete Vue project, test components and user flows, improve performance and accessibility, create production builds, and deploy a finished application. You will leave with the confidence to build modern, reactive front-end applications with Vue 3, components, routing, state, forms, and production-ready patterns.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

4 lessons

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Vue 3

18 min Preview
In this lesson, students set up a working Vue 3 development environment and learn how a Vue app starts, mounts, and renders reactive data. The focus is practical orientation: what Vue is for, how a ty…

Lesson 2: Understanding Vue Templates and Data Binding

20 min
In this lesson, students learn how Vue 3 templates connect reactive data to the DOM. The focus is on interpolation, directives, attribute binding, conditional rendering, list rendering, event handling…

Lesson 3: Directives, Conditional Rendering, and Lists

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how Vue templates become dynamic by using directives. The focus is on practical template behavior: binding attributes, conditionally showing content, rendering lists, re…

Lesson 4: Handling Events and User Interaction

18 min
In this lesson, students learn how Vue 3 handles user interaction through event binding. The focus is on using v-on and its @ shorthand to listen for browser events, call component methods, pass event…

Reactivity and Logic

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Computed Properties, Watchers, and Reactive Updates

22 min
This lesson explains how Vue 3 updates the interface when reactive data changes, and how to place logic in the right part of a component. Students learn when to use computed properties for cached deri…

Components

5 lessons

Lesson 6: Building Your First Reusable Components

20 min
In this lesson, students build their first reusable Vue 3 components by identifying repeated interface patterns, extracting them into single-file components, and passing data into them with props. The…

Lesson 7: Passing Data with Props

18 min
In this lesson, students learn how Vue components receive data from their parent components using props. The lesson focuses on one-way data flow, declaring props in Vue 3, binding dynamic values, vali…

Lesson 8: Custom Events and Parent-Child Communication

20 min
This lesson explains how Vue 3 components communicate when data needs to move from a child component back to its parent. You will learn the one-way data flow pattern, why props should not be mutated b…

Lesson 9: Slots and Flexible Component Layouts

19 min
This lesson teaches how Vue 3 slots let a component control structure while allowing the parent to supply flexible content. Students will learn default slots, named slots, fallback content, and scoped…

Lesson 10: Lifecycle Hooks and Component Side Effects

21 min
This lesson explains how Vue 3 components move through their lifecycle and how to use lifecycle hooks to coordinate side effects safely. Students learn when a component is created, mounted, updated, a…

Composition API

2 lessons

Lesson 11: Introduction to the Composition API

23 min
This lesson introduces Vue 3's Composition API as a practical way to organize component logic around features instead of option names. Students learn how setup , ref , reactive , computed , and watch …

Lesson 12: Organizing Logic with Composables

22 min
In this lesson, students learn how Vue composables turn Composition API logic into reusable, testable functions. The focus is on extracting stateful behavior from components without creating unclear a…

Application Features

2 lessons

Lesson 13: Working with Forms and Validation Patterns

24 min
This lesson shows how Vue 3 handles real application forms: binding input state with v-model , choosing the right data shape for different controls, validating user input, displaying useful errors, an…

Lesson 14: Fetching and Displaying API Data

23 min
In this lesson, students learn how Vue 3 applications fetch data from an API and display it safely in the interface. The focus is on practical patterns: triggering requests at the right lifecycle mome…

Application Architecture

3 lessons

Lesson 15: Routing with Vue Router

24 min
This lesson introduces client-side routing in Vue 3 using Vue Router. Students learn how routing fits into application architecture, how to define route records, render matched views, navigate with li…

Lesson 16: Managing Shared State with Pinia

25 min
In this lesson, students learn how to use Pinia as the shared state layer in a Vue 3 application. The focus is on deciding what belongs in a store, defining state, getters, and actions, and consuming …

Lesson 17: Structuring a Maintainable Vue Project

21 min
In this lesson, students learn how to structure a Vue 3 project so it remains understandable as the application grows. The focus is practical architecture: where files belong, how features can be grou…

Quality and Production

3 lessons

Lesson 18: Testing Vue Components and User Flows

23 min
In this lesson, Professor Michael Edwards shows how to test Vue 3 components and user flows with a practical quality strategy. You will learn what to test at the component level, how to use Vue Test U…

Lesson 19: Performance, Accessibility, and Production Builds

24 min
This lesson prepares a Vue 3 application for real users by focusing on performance, accessibility, and production builds. Students learn how to reduce unnecessary rendering, split code with dynamic im…

Lesson 20: Deploying a Complete Vue Application

20 min
In this lesson, Professor Michael Edwards brings the Vue.js Fundamentals course together by showing how to prepare a complete Vue 3 application for production deployment. The focus is not just running…
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Professor Michael Edwards

Professor Michael Edwards

Professor Michael Edwards guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.