Course Outline
Building modern front-end applications
- Overview and commonalities of React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering
- Components – creating custom HTML tags
- Initializing a React project using create-react-app
Contemporary JavaScript
- Development with node.js and npm
- JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming 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
The React template language
- JSX: the JavaScript-based template language
- Configuring element properties
- Repeating elements
- Conditional rendering (if / else)
- Event handling
- CSS classes and styling
State management in React
- Initializing and modifying application state
- Utilizing the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element content within the state
Components: The building blocks of modern web apps
- Creating custom HTML tags in React
- State, props, and events
- Data flow between components
- Function-based and class-based 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 via 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 events with Thunk
- Retrieving data from a REST API
Developer tools and testing
- React developer tools
- Redux developer tools
- Testing JavaScript with Jest
- Testing reducers
- Testing React components
React Router
- Client-side routing
- Displaying various views based on the current browser route
Application development with React
- Brief overview of React Native
- Creating installable mobile and desktop applications using Progressive Web Apps
- Comparing Progressive Web Apps with native applications
Requirements
- HTML fundamentals
- JavaScript experience
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.
