Full Stack and React Essentials

Overview

The web is the ubiquitous app development and content delivery platform. In this 4.5-day course, students craft responsive websites, build a node.js backend, and tame complexity through maintainable user interface components. We give them a solid foundation for today's web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, ES6, Node.js, ReactJS. Students don’t leave knowing only those tools; they are prepared to pick up and apply whatever the web ecosystem throws at them in years to come.

Bootcamp Price: $4200

Bootcamp price includes hotel, meals, and a shuttle to and from the hotel.

In the Atlanta area? Interested in commuting to class? Contact training@bignerdranch.com to discuss commuting options and discounts.

 

• Native developers who want to create a web presence that supports an app, grows a user base and collects user feedback.

• Backend developers who need to create full-stack web apps.

• Enterprise developers building applications that need to work on any device or screen.

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of object-oriented or functional programming is expected.

• Software development experience is necessary, though it does not have to be with JavaScript.

• Build responsive, mobile-friendly websites using HTML and modern CSS

• Respond to user events with JavaScript

• Handle asynchronous data

• Split your interfaces into easily-managed, reusable components using the React framework

• If you have no prior HTML and CSS experience, study Codecademy’s Intro to HTML and Intro to CSS.

• If you have no prior JavaScript experience, go through Codecademy’s Intro to JavaScript course.

• Make sure you have the most recent version of Chrome installed.

• Download a text editor for your platform. Microsoft’s VS Code is excellent.

• Install the latest version of Node.js for your platform.

Building Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Websites

• Style and lay out an application with HTML and modern CSS.

• Create a responsive web page with Flexbox and Media Queries.

• Implement visual effects and animation using CSS3 transitions.

• Write JavaScript functions to respond to user interactions with the page.

 

Building Backends with Node.js

• Build a simple HTTP server.

• Manage module installation and build steps with npm.

 

Creating Web Applications With React

• Split your interfaces into easily-managed, reusable components using the React framework.

• Utilize JSX to describe how the interfaces should be rendered.

• Persist and synchronize state between components using React hooks or redux.

• Asynchronous data fetching with component lifecycle methods or thunk.

• Manage the state of your application using the latest libraries and techniques.

• Manage routing with React Router.

• Use Bootstrap React Components for faster and easier development.

 

Writing Effective JavaScript with Design Patterns and Build Tools

• Use HTML5 form elements to create a coffee order form.

• Ensure correct input via the Custom Validity API.

• Access remote server data using AJAX.

• Handle asynchronous events, including data fetching, with Promises and async/await

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