ReactJS Course

Discover what React is and the problems it solves when designing UIs and web applications. Get your first hands-on experience with React. Discover the create-react-app utility that generates a React development toolchain for an incredible developer experience.

• What is React? 
• Hello React
• Using the create-react-app

Build an app that allows the user to key in text which it reverses and displays on the UI instantaneously.

Learning Objective:

Learn to render lists of components using the map method. Understand the importance of the 'key' attribute. Learn to use the fragments feature for rendering multiple top-level components. 

Topics

• Using the map function to render lists 
• The “key” attribute 
• Using Fragments 

Hands-on: 

• Use the map function to render lists of components using an Array of movies and set all-important ‘key’ prop
• Implement the Fragment operator in a React Component instead of an enclosing div element

Learning Objective:

Understand the lifecycle of a component and how it can be harnessed. Learn to integrate side effects such as fetching data from an API, in a React component. Learn to deal with side effects that require cleanup, such as using timers. Understand React's SyntheticEvent system. Learn about managing errors gracefully using Error Boundaries.

Topics: 

• Lifecycle of a Component 
• Side effects & Lifecycle 
• Managing cleanup 
• Events 
• Error Management

Hands-on:

• Implement the componentDidMount lifecycle method to bring in data from a mock weather service 
• Implement the componentDidUpdate lifecycle method to update the data  
• component will unmount lifecycle function to tear down the timer instance in an app 
• Work with events to set state properties 
• Implement an Error Boundary component to intercept errors in child components

Learning Objective:

Understand the lifecycle of a component and how it can be harnessed. Learn to integrate side effects such as fetching data from an API, in a React component. Learn to deal with side effects that require cleanup, such as using timers. Understand React's SyntheticEvent system. Learn about managing errors gracefully using Error Boundaries.

Topics: 

• Lifecycle of a Component 
• Side effects & Lifecycle 
• Managing cleanup 
• Events 
• Error Management

Hands-on:

• Implement the componentDidMount lifecycle method to bring in data from a mock weather service 
• Implement the componentDidUpdate lifecycle method to update the data  
• component will unmount lifecycle function to tear down the timer instance in an app 
• Work with events to set state properties 
• Implement an Error Boundary component to intercept errors in child components

Learning Objective:

Implement shared logic using render props. Learn to reuse component logic using the HOC pattern.

Topics: 

• Render Props
• Higher Order Components

Hands-on:

• Create a Currency Converter component that implements render props to provide the result which is then rendered on the screen
• Build a higher order function that empowers our App component with tools to fetch currency rates after conversion 

Learning Objective:

Learn to render children in a DOM node that is outside of the parent's DOM hierarchy. Understand how event bubbling works with Portals.

Topics:

• Introduction to Portals
• Event bubbling in Portals

Hands-on:

Work with Portals to render a dialog box component in a DOM element other than the root div where the React app is mounted

Learning Objective:

Understand the nuances of data flow in a React application, and the issues with sharing global data using props in a deeply nested application. Learn and understand all about the Context API that lets you share global data without using props. 

Topics: 

• Unidirectional Data Flow
• Challenges with Props
• The Context API

Hands-on:

Instantiate a context, and provider and consumer components to trickle data down to the component hierarchy

Learning Objective: 

Get an introduction to the Hooks API and the motivation behind them. Learn to incorporate stateful properties in a function component using the useState() hook. Learn to ingest data from a Context provider using hooks and to implement the useReducer() hook. Finally, learn to write your own hook. 

Topics:

• Understanding Hooks 
• The useState hook 
• Side effects using the useEffect hook 
• The useContext hook 
• The useReducer hook 
• Writing your own hook 

Hands-on: 

• Build a PowerTags component that can be used to dynamically add/remove tags or keywords
• Use the useEffect function to fetch data from a stock app
• Implement the useContext hook to consume data from a context provider
• Use the useReducer hook to offload state management and define actions and their resulting state changes
• Build a custom hook named ‘useGeoLocation’ which accesses the HTML5 GeoLocation API to continually fetch the latitude and longitude of the user’s location

Learning Objective:

Understand Routing in a React application, and learn about Dynamic Routing & Setup React Routers. Implement nested routing and use query parameters. Learn to protect routes from unauthenticated access.

 Topics:

• Routing in a React application
• Routing with React Router
• Nested Routes & Parameters
• Protecting Routes

Hands-on: 

• Integrate React router in a project that features multiple sections
• Incorporate nested routing on the /books route so that details of books
• Protect a route from unauthenticated access

Learning Objective:

Learn to optimize your production bundle by implementing code splitting using dynamic imports & the Suspense API. Learn to implement code splitting, lazy loading & suspense when working with React Router. 

Topic

• Code splitting & Suspense
• Route Based Code Splitting & Lazy Loading 

Hands-on: 

• Implement React.lazy and Suspense to load two components when needed 
• Implement React.lazy and Suspense when working with React Router

Learning Objective:

Understand the need for server side rendered apps. Learn to setup a Node.js (Express) server for rendering React apps on the server. Build a toolchain using Webpack and Babel to compile React code on the server & for the client. 

Topics 

• Server Side Rendering
• SSR with React - Setup & Server
• SSR with React - The Toolchain 

Learning Objective:

Understand the need for a dedicated state management solution and discover Redux. Take your first steps with Redux as you install, setup and connect it to a React application. Learn to build action creators and add mutation logic in the reducer for the Catalog component.

Next, learn to use the connect () higher order function to interface React components with the store. You will be able to build action creators & complex state mutation logic for the Cart component. Learn to use Redux hooks and implement optimizations for performance. Also learn to implement middleware, async action creators and data persistence.

Topics: 

• State Management & Redux 
• Setting up Redux 
• Actions & Reducer for the Catalog 
• Using the connect () higher order function 
• Actions & Reducer for the Cart 
• Using Redux Hooks 
• Implementing Middleware & Persistence

Learning Objective:

Understand the role of testing in application development. Learn to use Jest with test-utils from the React-DOM library for writing unit & integration tests. Next, learn to write tests using Jest & the React Testing Library. Finally, learn about React Testing Library, a framework for testing React components.

Topics: 

• Introduction to Testing
• Using Jest with Test Utils from React-DOM
• Using Jest with the React Testing Library
• Using Jest with Enzyme

Learning Objective :Discover tools, utilities and community contributed components.

• The React ecosystem