Vibe Coding from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Shipping an App with AI

Vibe Coding from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Shipping an App with AI

1h 51mBeginner2026-04-27

Authors

Basia Kubicka

Basia Kubicka

Course details

You don't need to know how to code to build a real web application—you just need the right approach. In this course, you'll go from zero to a fully deployed app by describing what you want in plain language and letting AI do the heavy lifting. You'll learn to create polished user interfaces, build functional backends, and connect everything together. Along the way, you'll pick up essential software development skills like planning, testing, code reviews, and security assessments, giving you the confidence to build apps that work. You'll also get hands-on practice creating architecture blueprints and implementation plans tailored to your app ideas. Whether you're an entrepreneur with an idea, a product manager who wants to prototype, or simply curious about what's possible with AI, this course gives you a repeatable process to turn ideas into live, working applications. No prior programming experience is required.

Learning objectives
Build your first complete web application with zero prior programming experience required.
Create user interfaces and connect them to working backends using AI coding assistants.
Deploy your application to the web so others can actually use it.
Develop a practical workflow for turning your ideas into functional apps with AI assistance.

Skills covered

AI Builders and Low/No-Code ToolsBack-End Web DevelopmentBuilding with AIFull-Stack Web DevelopmentEssential TrainingWeb Development

Concepts

Introduction to Vibe Coding

  • Cook up a real app with AI no coding needed
  • Introduction to prompting (in the era of Vibe Coding)
  • The software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Pro vibe coding - Test-driven development
  • Challenge - Create your PRD

Front-end Implementation

  • Initialize Lovable project with custom knowledge
  • Implement the UI page by page
  • Test and debug your UI
  • Challenge - Generate, test, and iterate until the UI is ready

Back-end Architecture

  • What the back-end does
  • Design architecture with Lovable
  • Architecture blueprint review
  • Implementation plan review
  • Challenge - Create your architecture blueprint and implementation plan

Back-end Implementation

  • Database setup
  • Auth implemetation and testing
  • Edge functions
  • External API implementation and debugging
  • Connecting the front-end to the back-end
  • Final polish and UX improvements
  • Challenge - Implement your back-end

Professional Standards - Code Reviews, Security, and Compliance

  • Code reviews
  • Bug fixes and refactoring
  • Final testing
  • Security review
  • Going live
  • Challenge - Review, refactor, test, secure, and ship

Further Iterations

  • Creating a test environment
  • Compliance as a feature
  • Adding payments

What Happens Next

  • Where you can go from here
40,000 Toman