Modern Front End Development with React, May 21

Who: General Assembly
Where: General Assembly Seattle
When: May 21, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
What: React is quickly becoming the front end framework of choice for modern UI developers and it’s not hard to see why. React is a developer friendly ecosystem which takes advantage of the best of JavaScript, including EcmaScript 2015 (aka ES6). It features a declarative style without forcing you to learn framework specific syntax. In this in depth workshop, you’ll build a web app and learn everything you need to know to effectively develop with React including: setup with NPM, Webpack and Babel, ES6 integration, building components, routing with React Router, and advanced data handling with Redux. Sign up today and learn framework of choice for UI developers.

Takeaways

Learn the benefits of React’s component based library that, when used with tech like Webpack, Redux and Babel, create the most developer friendly frontend framework out today.
Leave with hands on knowledge of new ES6 features that are in the bleeding edge of JavaScript.
Work with JavaScript classes, arrow functions, destructuring, spread operators, and more.
Understand advanced data handling techniques utilizing Redux, the flux implementation of choice among React developers because of its efficiency, declarative style, and powerful middleware.

Prereqs & Preparation

Must have JavaScript and HTML experience. Experience working with another front end framework such as Angular, Ember, or Backbone is a plus but not necessary.
Bring a laptop to class with Sublime (or other IDE) and Node.js installed.
Basic familiarity working with terminal a plus, but not required.