Course Outline
Development of modern front-end applications
- Overview and similarities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering
- Components - defining custom HTML tags
- Initialising a React project using create-react-app
Modern JavaScript
- Developing with Node.js and npm
- JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming in JavaScript (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
- JavaScript-based template language: JSX
- Setting element properties
- Repeating elements
- If / else
- Events
- CSS classes and styles
Managing state in React
- Setting and changing the application state
- Using the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element content in state
Components: Building blocks of modern web applications
- Defining custom HTML tags in React
- State, props, and events
- Data flow between components
- Function components and class components
- Using hooks in function components
- Component lifecycle events (mount, update, unmount)
- Including predefined components from a library
State management with Redux
- Redux basics: state management with pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Using the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Presentational and container components
- The Redux ecosystem
- Handling asynchronous events with Thunk
- Fetching 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 different views based on the current browser route
App development with React
- Short overview of React Native
- Creating an installable mobile and desktop application with Progressive Web Apps
- Comparison of Progressive Web Apps and native apps
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of HTML
- 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.
