Get started with React.js for front-end web development
Overview
React.js Fundamentals LiveLessons, Third Edition, covers vanilla React and presents a refresher on some advanced JavaScript topics and essential ES6 features. You first learn how to create a modern React toolchain. Next, the training covers the advanced JavaScript concepts that regularly pop up in React and the modern ES6 features you’ll need to …
Get started with React.js for front-end web development
Overview
React.js Fundamentals LiveLessons, Third Edition, covers vanilla React and presents a refresher on some advanced JavaScript topics and essential ES6 features. You first learn how to create a modern React toolchain. Next, the training covers the advanced JavaScript concepts that regularly pop up in React and the modern ES6 features you’ll need to write more idiomatic React code. Next, the training covers a conceptual understanding of React and takes an in-depth look at how React’s virtual DOM works. Starting in Lesson 6, you dive into writing React code using the original create class syntax and begin to look at the JSX. Next, you see how to rewrite your earlier code using modern es6 features. From there, you learn the remaining vanilla React topics, such as component lifecycle and state management. The training wraps up with a discussion of how you can tweak performance in React apps, use styling, and create functional components.
About the Instructor
Charles Crawford III has more than ten years of software experience and five years of experience in software education. He is currently a lead instructor at Code Fellows, where he teaches full-stack web programming. He is also an active software and writing consultant and the director of marketing for Hack The People, a distributed nonprofit organization focused on fostering mentor—mentee relationships in software development. Additionally, Charles is an active blog contributor at The New Stack, a site featuring news about and analysis of an ever-changing software development ecosystem. Prior to this, Charles was a developer evangelist for Shippable, a SaaS that leverages Docker to provide continuous integration services. He was also a software engineer at Amazon Web Services on the Elastic Beanstalk team, where he worked on things such as the Elastic Beanstalk Ruby container, Nodejs container, and the Docker container.
Skill Level
Introduction
ReactJS Fundamentals: Introduction
Lesson 1: Creating Your React ToolChain
Learning objectives
1.1 Understand the requirements of your toolchain
1.2 Use NPM to manage your application’s dependencies and run tasks
1.3 Compile ES6 to ES5 with Babel
1.4 Bundle applications with Webpack
1.5 Understand how Babel and Webpack work together and create a basic build process
1.6 Create a development optimized build process
1.7 Create a production optimized build process
1.8 Use create-react-app
Lesson 2: Understanding Advanced JavaScript Required for ReactJS
Learning objectives
2.1 Use functional programming in JavaScript
2.2 Understand execution context and the this keyword!
2.3 Control execution context with bind/call/apply
Lesson 3: Utilizing ES6 in Your React Applications
Learning objectives
3.1 Understand ES6 template strings
3.2 Understand ES6 default arguments
3.3 Understand ES6 rest and spread
3.4 Understand ES6 arrow functions
3.5 Understand ES6 destructuring (bug fix)
3.6 Understand ES6 modules
3.7 Understand ES6 classes
3.8 Understand ES6 promises, Part 1
3.9 Understand ES6 promises, Part 2
3.10 Understand ES6 promises, Part 3
3.11 Understand ES6 fetch
3.12 Understand ES6 generators
3.13 Combine generators and Promises
3.14 Understand Async await
Lesson 4: Understanding Basic React Concepts
Learning objectives
4.1 Utilize component-based design
4.2 Use one-way data flow and rendering
Lesson 5: Understanding the Virtual DOM
Learning objectives
5.1 Understand the virtual DOM versus the actual DOM
5.2 Understand the diffing algorithm
Lesson 6: Coding Your First React App with Traditional React
Learning objectives
6.1 Use createClass and render
6.2 Understand JSX
6.3 Set initial app state
Lesson 7: React Fundamentals with New ES6 Syntax
Learning objectives
7.1 Create with new ES6 class syntax
7.2 Understand properties and state
7.3 Add new state to an app
7.4 State changes through child components
7.5 Use inputs with React
7.6 Understand functional stateless components
7.7 Utilize data fetching in React applications
7.8 Understand React component lifecycle methods
7.9 Utilize content of custom components
7.10 Understand higher order components
7.11 Utilize propTypes
7.12 Utilize ref to access child components
Lesson 8: React Performance
Learning objectives
8.1 Improve child rendering performance by setting keys
8.2 Implement performance optimizations with shouldComponentUpdate
Lesson 9: Styling with React
Learning objectives
9.1 Use Inline styles
9.2 Use external style sheets
9.3 Manually configure CSS modules
9.4 Implement CSS modules with styled-jsx
Lesson 10: React Functional Components
Learning objectives
10.1 Create Stateless Functional Components
10.2 Create terser functional components with arrow functions
10.3 Create terser functional components with parameter destructuring
10.4 Create stateful function components with useState
10.5 Add lifecycle events to function components with useEffect
10.6 Create custom useEffect functions for function components
Summary
ReactJS Fundamentals: Summary