Mastering React Boot Camp (TT4195)

Course Objectives

• Optimize Web Performance: Understand and leverage the benefits of the Virtual DOM, enabling faster rendering and efficient updates, resulting in smoother user experiences and reduced page load times.

If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate.  We offer additional full stack development, React, React Native, web development, design and security courses which may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your development objectives.

Course Prerequisites

Audience & Pre-Requisites

This fast-paced course is for intermediate skilled web developers new to React who are proficient in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. This course is not for beginners.

Take Before: Attendees should have experience with the topics in the following courses, or should have recently attended these as a pre-requisite:

• TT4003:         Introduction to HTML5 / CSS3 & JavaScript Essentials – 3 days

Related Courses

The following is a small subset of related courses. We offer many additional courses and topics on modern web, mobile and full stack development. Please see the online catalog for a complete list of courses and learning paths.

• TT4002          Introduction to HTML5 / CSS3 - 2 days
• TT4003          Introduction to HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript - 3 days
• TT4110          Introduction to Moden JavaScript – 3 days
• TT4165          Introduction to Angular Essentials - 3-day subset of this course
• TT4168          Mastering Angular Boot Camp - 5 days
• TT4190          Getting Started with React Essentials – 3 days
• TT4195          Mastering React Boot Camp |With Redux, Flux, Unit Testing, JSX & More – 5 days (TT4190 superset)
• TT4198          Introduction to React Native – 3 days
• TT4203          Introduction to GraphQL with React – 3 days
• TT4205          Advanced GraphQL in React – 3 days

Next Steps / Follow-on Courses: We offer a wide variety of follow-on courses for next-level web development, React, React Native, Full Stack and more. Please see our Modern Web Developer / Full Stack Courses & Learning Journey Paths for options based on your specific role and goals. 

Course Agenda

1. Your first React Web Application 

• Setting up your development environment
• JavaScript ES6 /ES7
• Next.js Introduction
• Getting started

2. Functional Components

• What’s a component?
• Functional components - Motivation behind Hooks

3. Our first component

• Building the App
• Props - Making the App data-driven
• Events - Your app’s first interaction with useEffect() Hook
• State - Updating state with useState() Hook

4. JSX and the Virtual DOM

• React Uses a Virtual DOM
• Why Not Modify the Actual DOM?
• What is a Virtual DOM?
• Virtual DOM Pieces
• ReactElement

5. JSX

• JSX Creates Elements
• JSX Attribute Expressions
• JSX Conditional Child Expressions
• JSX Boolean Attributes
• JSX Comments
• JSX Spread Syntax
• JSX Gotchas

6. Forms

• Forms 101
• Text Input
• Multiple fields
• Validation

7. Routing

• What’s in a URL?
• React Router’s core components
• Building the components of react-router

8. Advanced Component Configuration with context

• Context - Provider/Consumer
• useContext() Hook Example

9. Unit Testing & Jest

• Writing tests without a framework
• What is Jest?
• Using Jest
• Testing strategies for React applications
• React Testing Library

10. Debugging React

• Using React Developer Tools
• Using Visual Studio Code
• OPTIONAL - Using the Chrome Debugger

11. React Custom Hooks

• Writing and Using Custom Hooks

12. REST

• REST Basics
• Using fetch
• Using Axios

13. A larger Component React Application:

• A time-logging app
• Getting started
• Breaking the app into components
• The steps for building React apps from scratch
• Step 2: Build a static version of the app
• Step 3: Determine what should be stateful
• Step 4: Determine in which component each piece of state should live
• Step 5: Hard-code initial states
• Step 6: Add inverse data flow
• Updating timers
• Deleting timers
• Adding timing functionality
• Add start and stop functionality
• Methodology review

14. Flux and Redux Basics

• Why Flux?
• Flux is a Design Pattern
• Flux implementations
• Redux’s key ideas
• Building a counter 
• The core of Redux 
• The beginnings of a chat app
• Building the reducer()
• Subscribing to the store
• Connecting Redux to React 

15. Intermediate Redux

• Building the redux store
• Representing messages as objects in state
• Introducing chat threads for the chat application
• Adding the ThreadTabs component
• Supporting threads in the reducer
• Adding another action to the reducer 

Bonus Content / Time Permitting

16. ES6 Primer

• Prefer const and let over var
• Arrow functions
• Modules
• Object.assign()
• Template literals
• The spread operator and Rest parameters
• Enhanced object literals
• Default arguments
• Destructuring assignments

17. Using Vite:

• Using Vite to create the TypeScript React application
• Start it up and watch it run
• Unique features of Vite
• Why combine TypeScript and Vite?
• Benefits of using React with Vite
• Creating a Vite project
• Project structure
• Running the application
• Building a blog application
• Creating the blog data
• Creating a blog component
• Adding authentication with Okta to the application
• Performance comparison: CRA vs. Vite

18. Legacy Class Components:

• Class components
• Props – this.props vs props
• How Hooks Map to Component Classes
• Events – Class component lifecycle
• State – this.state object and this.setState()

Course Materials

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