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Development of modern front-end applications

• overview and similarities of React, Angular, Vue.js
• declarative rendering
• components - defining custom HTML tags
• using create-react-app to initialize a React project

Modern JavaScript

• developing using node.js and npm
• JavaScript versions
• working with modules
• functions and arrow functions
• classes
• functional programming in JavaScript (map, filter, ...)

TypeScript

• static vs dynamic typing
• declaring types of variables, functions and classes
• basic data types
• tuples, objects
• interfaces
• generics

React template language

• JavaScript-based template language: JSX
• setting element properties
• repeating elements
• if / else
• events
• CSS classes and styles

Managing state in React

• structure of the React app state
• modifying state via setState
• capturing the content of input elements in the state

Components: Building blocks of modern web applications

• defining custom HTML tags in React
• state, props & events
• data flow between components
• functional components and class components
• component lifecycle events (mount, update, unmount)
• optimizing performance with pure components
• including predefined components from a library

State management with Redux

• when to use state management
• Redux basics: state mangment with pure functions, reducers and immutable data
• integrating Redux into a React application
• presentational and container components
• the Redux ecosystem
• handling asynchronous events with Thunk
• fetching data from a REST API

Developer tools and testing

• React developer tools
• Redux developer tools
• Testing JavaScript with Jest
• Testing reducers
• Testing components with snapshot tests

React Router

• client-side routing
• displaying different views based on the current browser route

App development with React

• short overview of React Native
• creating an installable mobile and desktop application with Progressive Web Apps
• comparison of Progressive Web Apps and native apps