Course Outline
Development of Modern Front-End Applications
- Overview and similarities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering
- Components: Defining custom HTML tags
- Initializing a React project using create-react-app
Modern JavaScript
- Developing with Node.js and npm
- Evolution of JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming concepts in JavaScript (map, filter, ...)
TypeScript
- Static versus dynamic typing
- Declaring types for variables, functions, and classes
- Core data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
The React Template Language
- JSX: A JavaScript-based template language
- Setting element properties
- Rendering repeated elements
- Conditional rendering (if / else)
- Handling events
- CSS classes and inline styles
Managing State in React
- Setting and updating the application state
- Using the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element values within the state
Components: The Building Blocks of Modern Web Applications
- 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 external libraries
State Management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: State management using pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Utilizing the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Distinguishing between presentational and container components
- Exploring 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
- Displaying different views based on the current browser route
Application Development with React
- Overview of React Native
- Creating installable mobile and desktop applications using Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
- Comparing Progressive Web Apps and native applications
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of HTML
- Practical experience with JavaScript
Testimonials (7)
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.
Wanda Hawkins-Kavanagh - Dunelm
Course - React, Redux and TypeScript
I liked the fact that the course had exercises. I liked the way Lukasz tried to help each of us and the way he handle the anxiety of some of the other participants. I liked that he was knowledgeable of the subject.
