Course Outline
Development of modern front-end applications
- Overview and commonalities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering concepts
- Components: Creating custom HTML tags
- Initializing a React project 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 patterns in JavaScript (e.g., map, filter)
TypeScript
- Static vs. dynamic typing
- Defining types for variables, functions, and classes
- Basic data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React template language
- JSX: A JavaScript-based template language
- Configuring element properties
- Rendering repeated elements
- Conditional rendering (if/else)
- Event handling
- CSS classes and styling
Managing state in React
- Initializing and modifying application state
- Leveraging the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element values into state
Components: Building blocks of modern web applications
- Defining custom HTML tags within React
- Understanding state, props, & events
- Data flow between components
- Function components vs. class components
- Utilizing hooks in function components
- Component lifecycle events (mount, update, unmount)
- Incorporating pre-built components from libraries
State management with Redux
- Redux fundamentals: Managing state with pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Implementing the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Distinguishing presentational and container components
- The broader Redux ecosystem
- Handling asynchronous actions using Thunk
- Fetching data from REST APIs
Developer tools and testing
- React developer tools
- Redux developer tools
- Unit testing JavaScript with Jest
- Testing Redux reducers
- Testing React components
React Router
- Client-side routing concepts
- Rendering dynamic views based on browser routes
App development with React
- Introduction to React Native
- Building installable mobile and desktop apps with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
- Comparing PWAs with 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.
