Complete Vue Developer [Pinia, Vitest]: Zero to Mastery

This Vue course is all about maximizing your learning efficiency. Say goodbye to tangled, outdated, and incomplete tutorials and embrace the opportunity to create sleek, professional apps with Vue 3.

Plus, you’ll be learning alongside a vibrant, supportive community.

Zero To Mastery graduates have successfully landed roles at top-tier companies like Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, and Shopify, among others.

Many are thriving as sought-after freelancers, working remotely from all seven continents.

And you can absolutely be one of them.

By signing up today, you’ll gain access to our exclusive live online community classroom, where thousands of fellow students, alumni, mentors, TAs, and instructors collaborate and share knowledge.

Dynamic. Supportive. Empowering. Friendly. Essential.

These are just a handful of terms used by students to describe the ZTM Discord community, which is among the most active developer networks on Discord.

Best of all, you’ll be instructed by industry professionals with real-world experience working on Vue and building large-scale applications for companies in Toronto and Silicon Valley.

This hands-on course will immerse you in the modern Vue JS developer toolkit for 2024 and guides you through every step of launching a professional Vue project in production.

Your Capstone Project will involve developing a comprehensive full-stack Music Player application reminiscent of Spotify using Vue, Pinia (the newer version of Vuex), Vue Router, Composition API, Firebase, Vitest, Sass, and more.

All code is meticulously provided step-by-step, and if you're not keen on coding along, full access to the complete master project code allows you to showcase your own app in your portfolio right away.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of what this course covers, guiding you from zero to Vue mastery:

We’ll kick off with the basics and essentials of Vue, then transition into more advanced topics, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions on architecture and tools for your future Vue.js projects.

You’ll fall in love with Vue, whether you're a front-end novice or transitioning from a React or Angular background!

1. BASICS - Study the fundamentals of Vue, including computed properties, methods, and watchers. With these foundational concepts, you will effectively manipulate documents through events, binding, and conditional rendering. Plus, you’ll learn debugging techniques using the official Vue Developer Tools.

2. PROJECT: PERSPECTIVE PLAYGROUND - Your first project will be a CSS perspective playground. This exercise will solidify the fundamental concepts learned while providing a tool to visualize how CSS properties manipulate element perspectives.

3. DEEP DIVE INTO VUE - Explore the intricacies of the Vue framework. Discover how JavaScript frameworks implement reactivity and how Vue transforms templates into virtual DOM objects. This segment will illuminate Vue's framework capabilities for modern applications, alongside discussions on lifecycle hooks and components.

4. TOOLING KNOW-HOW - We’ll revisit some essential tools for application development. As you advance in your career, you'll need to grasp tooling that facilitates development (e.g., Vite, Sass, PostCSS, ESLint). We’ll go over configuration and the importance of these tools.

5. ADVANCED COMPONENTS - In this module, we'll bootstrap a Vue project with Vite. Vue is designed to streamline the development experience, easing tasks like scaffolding projects and running servers. We’ll directly work with components, exploring architecture through props, event emissions, slots, and dynamic rendering.

6. TRANSITIONS & ANIMATIONS - Learn how to enliven your app by integrating transitions and animations. These enhancements bring vitality to applications and elevate user experience by providing feedback on their actions. We'll explore how to implement animations using CSS and JavaScript, including the latest Web Animations API.

7. PROJECT: QUIZ APP - Apply your acquired knowledge to create a quiz application, a versatile engagement tool across various industries.

8. MASTER PROJECT: INTRODUCTION TO PINIA - Start on the master project—a music application (think Spotify)! Seamlessly upload, manage, and enjoy your music using TailwindCC for beautiful, modern design. We’ll approach state management using the official state library, Pinia, an upgrade from Vuex.

9. MASTER PROJECT: FORM VALIDATION - Implement robust form validation to prevent inaccurate data submission—ensuring that mistakes are caught before they become issues.

10. MASTER PROJECT: AUTHENTICATION - Initiate user authentication and registration, enabling users to log in seamlessly after creating an account. Firebase will serve as our backend solution for user management and verification.

11. MASTER PROJECT: ROUTING - Navigate page transitions using the Vue Router library, employing the history API for seamless navigation. Discover how to utilize this library for route protection, meta fields, and customizing site appearance based on the current route.

12. MASTER PROJECT: FILE UPLOADS - Facilitate file uploads to Firebase, ensuring validation to prevent the dissemination of malicious files. We’ll explore stored information in databases and implement a fallback solution for unavailable drag-and-drop functionality.

13. MASTER PROJECT: AUDIO PLAYER - Develop the audio player, incorporating features like play/pause, scrubbing, and tracking duration. You'll also enhance usability by enabling user comments, music browsing, and data sorting.

14. MASTER PROJECT: DIRECTIVES - Investigate the creation of custom directives—attributes that extend elements with extra properties and methods. We’ll delve into basics and advanced concepts, including modifiers and arguments.

15. MASTER PROJECT: INTERNATIONALIZATION - Equip your project for multilingual support, examining various translation techniques. Learn how to format and switch languages seamlessly within your code.

16. MASTER PROJECT: PWA - As the web shifts toward mobile-first design, you’ll implement Progressive Web App features, enhancing your app’s mobile-friendliness through Workbox for file caching and data persistence with Firebase.

17. MASTER PROJECT: OPTIMIZATIONS - Finalize adjustments before launching your app into production. We’ll explore several techniques to optimize your application, leveraging Vite for file chunking and effortless component registration while improving user experience during processing.

18. MASTER PROJECT: DEPLOYMENT - Seamlessly deploy your app to Vercel with a single command! It's a straightforward and swift process.

19. MASTER PROJECT: TESTING - Learn strategies for testing your project with Vitest. Master unit testing for isolating features, addressing common testing concerns with mocking, and progressing to snapshot testing and end-to-end testing for a cohesive understanding.

20. COMPOSITION API - Engage with Vue’s latest feature—the composition API. This innovative approach to building components addresses previous limitations, offering a compelling alternative. We’ll unpack the benefits and rationale behind its introduction.

What’s the takeaway?

In summary, this course represents a thorough and all-encompassing Vue bootcamp.

However, we are not about rote coding without grasping the concepts. Our mission is to elevate you from being a complete novice to ranking among the top 10% of Vue developers 💪.

Plus, there's absolutely no risk. Dive into learning today, and if the course isn't everything you hoped for, we offer a 100% refund within 30 days—no hassle, no questions asked.