Course Outline
Developing Modern Front-End Applications
- Overview and key similarities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- The concept of declarative rendering
- Components: Creating custom HTML tags
- Initializing a React project using create-react-app
Modern JavaScript
- Development workflows with node.js and npm
- Evolutions in JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming concepts in JavaScript (map, filter, etc.)
TypeScript
- Static versus dynamic typing
- Defining types for variables, functions, and classes
- Basic data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React Template Language
- JSX: A JavaScript-based template language
- Configuring element properties
- Rendering lists of elements
- Conditional rendering (if / else)
- Handling events
- Applying CSS classes and styles
State Management in React
- Initializing and updating application state
- Leveraging the state hook and setState
- Storing input element values in state
Components: The Building Blocks of Modern Web Applications
- Defining custom HTML tags within React
- Understanding state, props, and events
- Data flow patterns between components
- Differences between function and class components
- Utilizing hooks within function components
- Component lifecycle phases (mounting, updating, unmounting)
- Incorporating pre-built components from libraries
State Management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: managing state with pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Utilizing the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Roles of presentational and container components
- The broader Redux ecosystem
- Managing asynchronous actions with Thunk
- Retrieving data from REST APIs
Developer Tools and Testing
- React Developer Tools
- Redux Developer Tools
- Testing JavaScript code with Jest
- Writing tests for reducers
- Testing React components
React Router
- Implementing client-side routing
- Displaying distinct views based on the current browser route
Building Applications with React
- Brief introduction to React Native
- Creating installable mobile and desktop applications via Progressive Web Apps
- Comparing Progressive Web Apps with native applications
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of HTML
- Practical experience with JavaScript
Testimonials (7)
It was really good to finally get a solid understanding of some of the core concepts in React, especially things like the state and hooks. Łukasz provided really clear explanations of these, and was happy to experiment with worked examples to help clarify further questions that we had.
Hayden Pike - Powerlink Queensland
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
The details amout, way of explaning and the calm and confidence the trainer is inspiring.
Cosmin Ghergheles - Ness
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
It covered the basic components
Valentin
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
Lukasz's enthusiasm.
Eloise Phelps - Dunelm
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
How Luke made a good effort to helping people individually when they were having problems running the code. Luke was extremely friendly and got a long well with the course participants.
Jonathan Grout - Dunelm
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
The engagement from the trainer with all the participants was great, everyone got help at some stage of the course. It was a great experience overall, specially for people not familiar with the subject.
Tayyab Ejaz Mushtaq - Dunelm
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
I liked the fact it felt like a safe environment and I didn't feel intimidated sharing my screen and my struggles with the trainer or the group.
