React and Flux Web Development for Beginners

An overview of the specific subjects and technologies we will be covering in this course

Learn where to go to get help when you need to figure something out with Javascript. This is a React pre-requisite.

How to install Node Js for Javascript development. This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn the basics of programming Strings in Javascript.This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn the basics of programming conditionals through Javascript. This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn how to work with Floats and Integers through Javascript numbers. This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn about loops and arrays through Javascript programming. This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn about powerful Javascript objects and when to use them. This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn the importance of Bind and when and when not to use it. This is a React pre-requisite.

Get a taste of the Node Package Manager (NPM) and learn how to use it. This is a React pre-requisite.

Learn how to get Atom set up for React and JSX development. You don't have to use Atom as your IDE, but in case you don't know how to support React I go over the IDE that I will be using in this course.

Learn how to install Node Js for React development

Learn the basics of Node Js by interacting with the node shell and how to work with the node package manager (npm) in preparation for working with React

Learn how to import your own Node modules in preparing for working with React

We will cover the tools we will be using and what each tool does - namely Node NPM packages react, react-dom, babelify, babelify-react-preset, browserify, watchify, and babel.

We are going to build a skeleton project template using Watchify, Babelify, Node, React, React DOM, and React Babelify Preset. This is called the CommonJS method in React and is the project setup that Facebook uses and recommends.

Build your very own React skeleton app

We briefly cover how you should start designing and thinking about your web apps in the "React Way" by using Components and modularization.

Learn how to build a simple list application with React, HTML, Javascript, and the CommonJS method with Node. You could consider this React for beginners.

Learn how Bootstrap works and what you'll need to use it for React development. We also talk about some of the Bootstrap basics.

Get down and dirty with the Bootstrap grid system. I go in-depth on how to to properly lay out web apps with the Bootstrap grid system. We also talk about how to support phones and tablets with Bootstrap - responsive web design.

You will learn how to use CSS and Bootstrap with React

We talk about how to use React's inline styling to style your components in Javascript without having to write any CSS! This is especially important if you are creating reusable React components.

You will use Components, In-line styling, Bootstrap Panels, and the Bootstrap grid system to build a simple website. If you don't want to use Bootstrap use your favorite framework or your own CSS

Student solution for the exercise.

Learn how to write JSX & React code inline in your HTML files

Let's change the way we think about approaching web development. If we want to use React we need to start thinking in the React way. In this video we talk about how to approach a React project.

Let's get setting up React burned into your brain permanently.

Learn how to use the official React developer tools for Chrome and Firefox

Learn about how events work in React and what events are available for you to use

Learn how to use React Router to have multiple pages within a single page application

Learn how url hashing works with React Router

Build a website about the news going on in your country with React and React Router

Learn about some of the issues that might spring up when using React with other frameworks and how to solve them

Learn how to write comments inside of your JSX for your React apps

Learn how to build reusable forms in React with validation built-in

Continue working on your form and learn about using refs to get your container components to talk to their children components

Lets build a calculator with React

Fantastic Student Solution using Material Design

Learn how to set up a Node and Express server that can provide mock data for your React application

Learn how the Internet works with Clients and Servers and HTTP requests for your React and Flux apps

Learn how to use the Postman tool to hit APIs so you don't have to write a bunch of code first in your React applications

Learn the importance of Bind and when and when not to use it. This is especially important when working with promises in React

You'll learn how to use the Fetch framework to make HTTP requests with React. We also play around with our Node and Express server.

You are going to use an online API service to build a Weather component/app

Student Solution to the Weather App API

An in-depth look into the Flux architecture. Flux can be highly complex so I break it down into simple terms and show you some example code so you can see the benefit of using Flux in your React applications.

Get an insight and overview into how React and Reflux work together to reduce the complexity of manually implementing Flux

Learn how to implement Actions & Stores with React and Reflux making Flux much easier to digest

Learn how to set listeners in your React components so data automatically updates when it changes via Reflux trigger

In this lesson we'll add an input field and make a post request to the server. You'll learn how to trigger data changes in your React app

You are going to create a Pokedex with React and Flux. This exercise will be time consuming and will not be easy. It will help you master thinking in React.

CONTEST

The student who delivers to me the best implementation of this project will receive an official shout out from me an have their React course permanently displayed/referenced in the Devslopes React Course.

Time to set up our React web app for development

Learn how to make a reuseable navigation bar with Bootstrap and React

Learn how to use React state to handle hovering on navigation bar links

We implement React Router into our project. You also learn a few new things such as React Router Index Route and how to use route parameter to pass data through a url. Lastly we'll talk about componentWillReceiveProps and when to use it

In this video we demonstrate the power of reuseability and React when we drop in our previously built lead capture form. We also make some modifications in preparation for implementing the Flux and Reflux architecture.

We will add Reflux to our project. Then we will create a server with Node and Express that has an endpoint to take email subscribers. We then connect our lead capture form to the server.