Course Outline
Development of modern front-end applications
- Overview and comparison of React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering concepts
- Components - creating custom HTML tags
- Initializing React projects using create-react-app
Modern JavaScript
- Development workflows with node.js and npm
- Evolution of JavaScript versions
- Module management
- Standard functions and arrow function syntax
- Class-based programming
- Functional programming techniques in JavaScript (map, filter, etc.)
TypeScript
- Differences between static and dynamic typing
- Type declarations for variables, functions, and classes
- Core data types
- Tuples and object structures
- Defining interfaces
- Implementing generics
React template language
- JSX: A JavaScript-based templating syntax
- Configuring element attributes
- Rendering repeated elements
- Conditional logic (if / else)
- Event handling
- Applying CSS classes and styles
Managing state in React
- Initializing and modifying application state
- Leveraging the state hook and setState
- Synchronizing input element values with state
Components: The building blocks of modern web applications
- Defining custom tags within React
- Managing state, props, and events
- Data flow patterns between components
- Comparison of function and class components
- Utilizing hooks in function-based components
- Understanding component lifecycle events (mount, update, unmount)
- Integrating predefined library components
State management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: Pure functions, reducers, and immutable data for state management
- Applying the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Distinguishing between presentational and container components
- Exploring the broader Redux ecosystem
- Managing asynchronous actions with Thunk
- Data retrieval from REST APIs
Developer tools and testing
- Utilizing React developer tools
- Using Redux developer tools
- JavaScript unit testing with Jest
- Testing Redux reducers
- Testing React components
React Router
- Implementing client-side routing
- Dynamically rendering views based on the current browser URL
App development with React
- Brief overview of React Native
- Building 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.
