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The Road to React: The One with Class Components

Gain insights into V15 React fundamentals, API work, code organization, testing, and state management. Discover hands-on skills by building a Hacker News App for your portfolio.

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62 Lessons

13h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into V15 React fundamentals, API work, code organization, testing, and state management. Discover hands-on skills by building a Hacker News App for your portfolio.

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Course Overview

If you’re working with a legacy React codebase, then this course will prove useful. React has seen a great deal of change over the years, but there might be situations where you have to work with an older version. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of V15 React. You will learn how to work with an API, how to organize and test your code as well as how to give your React app state. Throughout this course, you will have hands-on experience building a fully functional Hacker News App. By the end o...Show More

If you’re working with a legacy React codebase, then this course will prove useful. React has seen a great deal of change over t...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

4 Lessons

Get familiar with React fundamentals, practical application, ES6 transition, and hands-on projects.

Foreword

Testimonials

FAQ

How to do it?

Intro to React and some JavaScript Basics

6 Lessons

Look at React, JavaScript basics like ES6 features, and create-react-app setup.

Complex JavaScript in JSX

An Introduction to the create-react-app

Basics in React

14 Lessons

Examine core React concepts like local state, events, unidirectional data flow, and component composition.

Local Component State

ES6 Object Initializer

Unidirectional Data Flow

Bindings

Event Handler

Interactions with Forms and Events

ES6 Destructuring

Controlled Components

Split Up Components

Composable Components

Reusable Components

Component Declarations

Styling Components

Recap

Getting Real with an API

10 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of React APIs, lifecycle methods, data fetching, conditional rendering, and error handling.

Lifecycle Methods

Fetching Data

ES6 Spread Operators

Conditional Rendering

Client- or Server-side Search

Paginated Fetch

Client Cache

Error Handling

Axios instead of Fetch

Recap

Code Organization and Testing

7 Lessons

Take a closer look at organizing code, testing with Jest and Enzyme, and debugging.

ES6 Modules: Import and Export

Code Organization with ES6 Modules

Snapshot Tests with Jest

Unit Tests with Enzyme

Component Interface with PropTypes

Debugging with React Developer Tools

Recap

Advanced React Components

6 Lessons

Focus on advanced techniques in React, including ref attributes, HOCs, and advanced sorting.

Ref a DOM Element

Loading …

Higher-Order Components

Advanced Sorting

Advanced Sorting: implementing reverse sort

Recap

State Management in React and beyond

4 Lessons

Build on effective state management techniques in React, including lifting state and using setState().

Lifting State

Revisited: setState()

Taming the State

Recap

Final Steps to Production

2 Lessons

Step through customizing configurations and deploying your React app to Heroku.

Eject

Deploy your App

Appendix: Bootstrapping your React App

9 Lessons

Walk through bootstrapping a React app, managing dependencies, using JSX, and optimizing development.

Requirements

npm and node (Optional)

Installation

Zero-Configuration Setup

Introduction to JSX

ReactDOM

Hot Module Replacement

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