Course Outline
Building modern front-end applications
- Overview of React, Angular, and Vue.js: similarities and distinctions
- Declarative rendering
- 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
- Module management
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming techniques in JavaScript (map, filter, etc.)
TypeScript
- Static versus dynamic typing
- Typing variables, functions, and classes
- Primitive data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React template syntax
- JSX: The JavaScript-based template language
- Configuring element attributes
- Rendering lists of elements
- Conditional rendering (if / else)
- Event handling
- Applying CSS classes and styles
State management in React
- Initializing and updating application state
- Leveraging the state hook and setState
- Synchronizing input element values with state
Components: The building blocks of modern web apps
- Defining custom HTML tags in React
- Understanding state, props, and events
- Data flow patterns between components
- Function-based vs. class-based components
- Utilizing hooks within function components
- Component lifecycle phases (mount, update, unmount)
- Integrating third-party component libraries
Global state management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: State management via pure functions, reducers, and immutability
- Applying the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into React applications
- Distinguishing between presentational and container components
- Exploring the broader Redux ecosystem
- Managing asynchronous actions with Thunk
- Consuming data from REST APIs
Developer tools and quality assurance
- Using React DevTools
- Leveraging Redux DevTools
- Writing JavaScript tests 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 URL
Application development with React
- Introduction to React Native
- Building installable mobile and desktop apps with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
- Evaluating PWAs against native applications
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge 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.
