React Fundamentals

Course

In this course, you'll learn fundamental React concepts and create interactive React components for web applications using JSX to render UI, manage state, and handle lifecycle events.

Intermediate

2 weeks

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated September 25, 2022

Skills you'll learn:

React component state • React router • React design patterns • React hooks

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Why React

In this lesson, you'll learn a bit about why React was built and the functional JavaScript concepts you'll use in React.

Lesson 2

Rendering UI with React

In this lesson, you'll build reusable React components and you'll use JSX to create user interface elements.

Lesson 3

State Management

In this lesson, you'll learn how to manage state in React applications with props, useState, and controlled components

Lesson 4

Hooks

In this lesson, you'll learn how hooks enable state and lifecycle in React components.

Lesson 5

Routing

In this lesson, we'll cover routing in React single-page applications using React Router

Lesson 6 • Project

MyReads: A Book Tracking App

In the MyReads project, you'll create a web application that allows you to select and categorize books you have read, are currently reading, or want to read.

Taught By The Best

Andrew Wong

Software Engineer

Andrew is a full stack engineer who enjoys making the world a better place through code. He first discovered his passion for teaching as an instructor at App Academy, and continues to enjoy empowering students to advance their education.

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