LiveLessons - ReactJS Fundamentals, 3rd Edition

React.js Fundamentals LiveLessons, Third Edition, covers vanilla React and presents a refresher on some advanced JavaScript topics and essential ES6 features. You first learn how to create a modern React toolchain. Next, the training covers the advanced JavaScript concepts that regularly pop up in React and the modern ES6 features you’ll need to write more idiomatic React code. Next, the training covers a conceptual understanding of React and takes an in-depth look at how React’s virtual DOM works. Starting in Lesson 6, you dive into writing React code using the original create class syntax and begin to look at the JSX. Next, you see how to rewrite your earlier code using modern es6 features. From there, you learn the remaining vanilla React topics, such as component lifecycle and state management. The training wraps up with a discussion of how you can tweak performance in React apps, use styling, and create functional components.

About the Instructor
Charles Crawford III has more than ten years of software experience and five years of experience in software education. He is currently a lead instructor at Code Fellows, where he teaches full-stack web programming. He is also an active software and writing consultant and the director of marketing for Hack The People, a distributed nonprofit organization focused on fostering mentor—mentee relationships in software development. Additionally, Charles is an active blog contributor at The New Stack, a site featuring news about and analysis of an ever-changing software development ecosystem. Prior to this, Charles was a developer evangelist for Shippable, a SaaS that leverages Docker to provide continuous integration services. He was also a software engineer at Amazon Web Services on the Elastic Beanstalk team, where he worked on things such as the Elastic Beanstalk Ruby container, Nodejs container, and the Docker container.

Skill Level
Intermediate
Learn How To
Utilize the React toolchain
Understand the advanced JavaScript features used with React
Use ES6 features with React
Understand basic React concepts
Utilize React’s virtual DOM
Code a React app with traditional and ES6
Optimize React performance
Utilize libraries to make React a complete front-end solution
Use React router
Use Flux
Use Redux
Test React applications
Use React functional components
Who Should Take This Course
Intermediate to experienced developers who would like to learn React.js for front-end web development
Course Requirements
JavaScript
HTML
AJAX (not required, but useful for this course)
REST (not required, but useful for this course)
ES6 (not required, but useful for this course)