Course Outline
Building modern front-end applications
- Overview of similarities between React, Angular, and Vue.js
- Declarative rendering concepts
- Components and defining custom HTML tags
- Initializing React projects using create-react-app
Modern JavaScript
- Development workflows with node.js and npm
- Evolution of JavaScript versions
- Module management
- Functions and arrow functions
- Object-oriented classes
- Functional programming patterns in JavaScript (e.g., map, filter)
TypeScript
- Comparison of static vs. dynamic typing
- Type declarations for variables, functions, and classes
- Primitive data types
- Tuples and object structures
- Defining interfaces
- Using generics
React template language
- JSX: A JavaScript-based template language
- Configuring element properties
- Iterating through elements
- Conditional rendering (if/else logic)
- Event handling
- Applying CSS classes and inline styles
Managing state in React
- Initializing and updating application state
- Leveraging the state hook and setState
- Synchronizing input element content with state
Components: The building blocks of modern web apps
- Defining custom HTML tags within React
- Understanding state, props, and events
- Data flow patterns between components
- Distinguishing function components from class components
- Implementing hooks in function components
- Component lifecycle events (mounting, updating, unmounting)
- Integrating predefined components from libraries
State management with Redux
- Core Redux concepts: pure functions, reducers, and immutable data
- Utilizing the reducer hook in React
- Integrating Redux into a React application
- Designing presentational and container components
- The broader Redux ecosystem
- Handling asynchronous actions with Thunk
- Retrieving data from REST APIs
Developer tools and testing
- React Developer Tools
- Redux Developer Tools
- Testing JavaScript code with Jest
- Unit testing reducers
- Testing React components
React Router
- Client-side routing mechanisms
- Rendering distinct views based on browser routes
Application development with React
- Introductory overview of React Native
- Creating installable mobile and desktop apps via 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.
