React
Published on January 1, 2022
React is a UI library developed at Facebook to facilitate the creation of interactive, stateful & reusable UI components.
React is the most popular UI library and is heavily used in a lot of web applications and native mobile apps.
In this free and open source React course, you will learn the fundamentals of React, including React Hooks, JSX, props, state, events, and more.
We will use React to create a web application, we will interact with server, and learn about the popular libraries and frameworks that are used with React, such as Redux, React Router, and Next.js.
We will learn React in baby steps, taking short lessons, with plenty of online exercises in each lesson. The online exercises can be solved in the site in our online editor. Each lesson will include a video, step by step guides, source code, and online exercises.
Prerequisites
Web development experience is required, you should be familiar with the following topics:
- HTML - this would be a prerequisite for any web development course.
- CSS - this would be a prerequisite for any web development course.
- JavaScript - this would be a prerequisite for any web development course.
- NPM - React has a lot of community quality packages you can use to accelerate your development, we will use NPM to install them.
Why you should learn React
There is a certain moat you will have to cross in every aspect of development you will focus on. If for example you would like to learn about web development, there are certain aspects in this field you will have to know
like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and there are certain technologies in that aspect that many companies use and you will have to learn as well.
React is the most popular UI library, alot of industries are using it, and the demand for React developers is high.
In my opinion it’s the easiest moat to cross to find you first job as a web developer.
By learning here in academeez you will code your way to being a React expert, so Let’s get started.