Web Development

What Will You Learn?

• Make REAL web applications using cutting-edge technologies
• Build responsive applications using modern CSS technologies like flexbox
• Build JSON APIs using Node, Express and MongoDB
• Learn the most popular front end library React and master the fundamentals around state, props and the component lifecycle
• Use babel and webpack to transpile and bundle code
• Understand what the Virtual DOM is and how React performs reconciliation
• Leverage Component Lifecycle methods with React to include making AJAX calls properly
• Secure Node, Express, Mongo and React applications on the front-end and back-end using bcrypt and JSON Web Tokens
• Add routing to a single page application with the most popular routing library for react, React Router.
• Manage State with a centralized store using Redux
• Connect Redux with a React application to build scalable production applications with client-side state management
• Select and manipulate elements in the DOM using D3
• Build dynamic visualizations using D3 and SVG
• Use D3 to build scatterplots, histograms, pie charts and force graphs
• Build compelling map visualizations with GeoJSON and TopoJSON
• Master how to handle asynchronous code using callbacks, promises, generators and async functions
• Understand how JavaScript handles asynchronous code using the Event Loop with the Stack, Heap and Queue.
• Use advanced array methods to build a solid understanding of functional programming
• Create dynamic single page applications using AJAX
• Structure applications with design patterns using closure and modules
• Explain how Object Oriented Programming works with a thorough understanding of the keyword this and the new keyword
• Refactor code using call, apply and bind to remove duplication
• Use jQuery to build single page applications and understand the limitations of just using jQuery
• Create block scope with the let keyword and use the const keyword to prevent variables from being redeclared
• Clean up code using arrow functions and master method binding without using the bind keyword
• Use default parameters, for of loops and the rest and spread operator to write more concise and more maintainable code
• Refactor an ES5 application to use ES2015
• Master the new class syntax and create instance methods, class methods
• Implement inheritance in ES2015 using extends and super
• Leverage newer data structures like Maps and Sets to better solve problems
• Learn cutting edge features to the JavaScript language with ES2016, 2017 as well as experimental JavaScript additions