[Vuejs]-How do you disable / fix this specific default behavior wherein after you refresh the whole webpage the specific router-link is still selected

Best way is to update the url with the unique identifier (UUID) once the item get selected. Now when you refresh the page just identify the item using the (UUID) in url and apply the specific item using active state. As per the router-view case you can easily handle it with the url defined case – make /profile:id expect a parameter, which will only provided when you click any of the router-link else redirect back to items page with the last selected UUID to highlight the last selected item