Course Outline
Building Modern Front-End Applications
- Overview of similarities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering
- Components: Defining custom HTML tags
- Initialising React projects using create-react-app
Modern JavaScript
- Development using node.js and npm
- Evolution of JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming concepts in JavaScript (e.g., map, filter)
TypeScript
- Static vs. dynamic typing
- Declaring types for variables, functions, and classes
- Basic data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React Template Language
- JSX: The JavaScript-based template language
- Setting element properties
- Rendering repeated elements
- Conditional rendering (if / else)
- Handling events
- Applying CSS classes and styles
State Management in React
- Setting and updating application state
- Utilising the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element content into state
Components: The Building Blocks of Modern Web Apps
- Defining custom HTML tags within React
- State, props, and events
- Data flow between components
- Function components vs. 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 via pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Using the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into React applications
- Presentational and container components
- The Redux ecosystem
- Handling asynchronous events with Thunk
- Retrieving data from REST APIs
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 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
- Basic understanding 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.
