Course Outline
Building Modern Front-End Applications
- Overview and commonalities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering concepts
- Components: Defining custom HTML tags
- Initialising React projects using create-react-app
Contemporary JavaScript
- Development workflows with node.js and npm
- Evolution of JavaScript versions
- Working with modules
- Functions and arrow functions
- Classes
- Functional programming in JavaScript (e.g., map, filter)
TypeScript
- Static vs. dynamic typing
- Declaring types for variables, functions, and classes
- Core data types
- Tuples and objects
- Interfaces
- Generics
React Template Language
- JSX: The JavaScript-based template language
- Setting element properties
- Repeating elements
- Conditional logic (if / else)
- Event handling
- CSS classes and styling
State Management in React
- Setting and updating application state
- Utilising the state hook and setState
- Capturing input element content within state
Components: The Building Blocks of Modern Web Apps
- Defining custom HTML tags in React
- State, props, and events
- Data flow between components
- Function components vs. class components
- Applying hooks within 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
- Utilising 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 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 distinct 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
- Foundational HTML knowledge
- 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.
