Course Outline
Modern Front-End Application Development
- Overview and key similarities among React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering principles
- Components: Defining custom HTML elements
- Initializing a React project with Create React App
Modern JavaScript
- Development using Node.js and npm
- Understanding different JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming concepts in JavaScript (e.g., map, filter)
TypeScript
- Static versus dynamic typing
- Declaring types for variables, functions, and classes
- Basic data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React's Templating Language
- JSX: A JavaScript-based templating language
- Setting element properties
- Rendering lists of elements
- Conditional rendering (if/else)
- Handling events
- Applying CSS classes and inline styles
Managing State in React
- Setting and updating the application state
- Utilizing the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element values within the state
Components: The Building Blocks of Modern Web Apps
- Defining custom HTML tags in React
- Understanding state, props, and events
- Data flow between components
- Function components versus class components
- Using hooks in function components
- Component lifecycle events (mount, update, unmount)
- Incorporating predefined components from libraries
State Management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: State management using pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Using the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Presentational versus container components
- The Redux ecosystem
- Handling asynchronous actions with Thunk
- Fetching data from a REST API
Developer Tools and Testing
- React Developer Tools
- Redux Developer Tools
- Testing JavaScript code with Jest
- Testing reducers
- Testing React components
React Router
- Client-side routing mechanisms
- Dynamically displaying views based on the current browser route
App Development with React
- Brief overview of React Native
- Creating installable mobile and desktop applications using Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
- Comparing Progressive Web Apps with native apps
Requirements
- Fundamental 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.
