Course Outline
Building modern front-end applications
- Overview and key similarities among React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering concepts
- Components: Creating custom HTML tags
- Initializing React projects using create-react-app
Contemporary JavaScript
- Development workflows with node.js and npm
- Evolution of JavaScript versions
- Managing modules
- Functions and arrow syntax
- Class-based programming
- Functional programming techniques in JavaScript (e.g., map, filter)
TypeScript
- Static vs. dynamic typing
- Defining types for variables, functions, and classes
- Core data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React template language
- JSX: The JavaScript-based template syntax
- Configuring element attributes
- Rendering repeated elements
- Conditional rendering (if/else)
- Handling events
- Applying CSS classes and inline styles
State management in React
- Initializing and updating application state
- Leveraging the state hook and setState
- Binding input element values to state
Components: The foundation of modern web apps
- Defining custom HTML tags within React
- Managing state, props, and events
- Data flow between components
- Differences between function and class components
- Utilizing hooks in function components
- Understanding component lifecycle events (mount, update, unmount)
- Incorporating pre-built components from libraries
Global state management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: Managing state via pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Implementing the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Distinguishing between presentational and container components
- The broader Redux ecosystem
- Managing asynchronous actions with Redux Thunk
- Retrieving data from REST APIs
Developer tools and testing strategies
- Using React developer tools
- Utilizing Redux developer tools
- Testing JavaScript code with Jest
- Unit testing reducers
- Testing React components
Client-side routing with React Router
- Implementing client-side routing
- Switching views based on the current browser route
Extended application development with React
- Brief introduction to React Native
- Building installable mobile and desktop applications using Progressive Web Apps
- Comparing Progressive Web Apps with native applications
Requirements
- Fundamentals 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.
