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Intermediate JavaScript: Building Frontend Components

Gain practical skills to create complex frontend components using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in real-world applications.

Intermediate

58 Lessons

10h

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Gain practical skills to create complex frontend components using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in real-world applications.

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Course Overview

Learn to apply your introductory knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build beautiful, real-world components. In this course, you'll go through the process of developing several complex components, including: - eBay's dropdown menu - Gmail's auto-validating form - Google's main autocomplete enabled search - Twitter's infinitely scrolling list - Medium's tooltips You'll learn how to approach common frontend challenges, what questions to ask yourself, how to design solutions once you've thought of them...Show More

Course Content

Welcome

1 Lessons

Get familiar with building frontend components using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Getting Started

Building a Dropdown Menu

9 Lessons

Unpack the core of building, styling, and dynamically populating dropdown menus using JavaScript.

Important Features of a Menu

Getting Data from the Server

Implementing the Behavior of Dropdown Menu

Getting Varied Responses from Server

Extending the Submenu Functionality

Building the Autocomplete Search

9 Lessons

Work your way through building and styling an effective autocomplete search component using JavaScript.

Understanding the Autocomplete Search Functionality

Examining Google's Autocomplete Functionality

Setting up a Framework to build Google's Autocomplete

Building a Server Endpoint for Autocomplete

Displaying Autocomplete Suggestions

Formatting the Autocomplete Suggestions

Styling an Autocomplete Enabled Engine

Further Styling an Autocomplete Enabled Engine

Final Styling Touches to the Autocomplete Enabled Engine

Building Tooltips

11 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of building tooltips using JavaScript, CSS, and effective debugging.

What is a Tooltip?

Examining the Important Features

How to Determine the Middle of Cursor?

Alternative Approach to find the Middle

Let's Start Building the Tooltip

Perfecting the Position

Bug 1: Selectable Tooltip

Bug 2: Tooltip Displays on Clicking

Bug 3: Multiline Highlights

Adding Styling

Adding Animations

Building an Autovalidating Form

16 Lessons

Take a closer look at building, validating, and testing dynamic, user-friendly auto-validating forms.

What is an Autovalidating form?

Rules for User Input Categories

Building the Form

Displaying Errors when Validation Fails

Test Driven Development

Unit Tests

Integration Tests

Acceptance Tests

Unique Errors for Each Field

Introduction to Regular Expressions

Validation of User Input with Regex

Displaying Actual Errors

Styling the Form

Guide to implementing Rules for Password

Restrictions and Month Selector

Wrapping Up

Building an Infinite List

8 Lessons

Follow the process of building an infinite scroll list with dynamic loading and styling.

What is an Infinite List?

Building an HTML Template for Infinite Lists

Styling List items

Server Client Communication

Generating Tweets from Server

Client Side Hydration

Adding a 'Loading' Element

Autopopulation

From Toy Components to Production

4 Lessons

Piece together the parts of resourcing, frameworks, and effective project structure to build production-ready applications.

Ship it!

Resourcing

Frameworks and Libraries

Project Structure

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