Tutorial: Building a simple Web Application with Vue (for absolute beginners)-focus on result and fun
I have created a tutorial “Building a web application with Vue” for the Conclusion Code Café (August 2023). You will find it here in a GitHub Repo.
It is targeted at people who — like me six weeks ago — have no experience with Vue or possibly any other reactive frond end framework (React, Angular, Svelte) but who do have some HTML and JavaScript skills and who would like to create a modern web application. I believe this tutorial answers most of the early questions you will have and guides you through the most interesting concepts and features in Vue that you will want to start using from the outset.
Note: the tutorial is accompanied by this slide deck — containing further visual introductions of the concepts discussed in the tutorial.
A little history: I wanted to create a simple web application that publishes a calendar of all technical knowledge events anywhere in my company (Conclusion, an ecosystem of 30 autonomous companies) — to make these sessions more accessible to the over 2500 colleagues who work in all these companies. After hearing quite some positive sentiments around Vue, I decided to simply get going. I read up on Vue, started creating my application step by step, adding child components, events and…
