React Quick Start: A Fast Start including React Hooks

Welcome to my React Crash Course Including React Hooks, your quick start guide on how to create React applications.

My name is Jim Cooper and I am an experienced video course author with more than 25 years of software engineering experience and 10 years of experience creating technical, front-end development learning content. In this course, I will walk you through building a React application from scratch.

By the end of this course, you will be able to create a new React application from scratch using create-react-app and understand key React JS terminology including ReactDOM and React JSX syntax.

This course skips over the boring introductions and summaries and quickly demonstrates, in code, how to create React applications. This is a particularly helpful format for experienced developers who are wanting to learn React.

This React crash course begins by teaching you how to create a new React application from scratch using create-react-app, including an introduction to how the plumbing of how a React app is bootstrapped. You’ll learn what react is, how it uses ReactDOM to efficiently render content, and the important parts of React’s unique JSX syntax.

In addition, you’ll learn how to:

• Create your own React JS components
• Style your React components with css, css modules, and SASS
• Display data and images in your React components
• Share data across React components
• Manage React component state (data which changes over time) with the useState() React hook
• Respond to user events including mouse clicks
• Define and link to URLs, routes and pages
• Use URL Query and Route Parameters
• Share state (data) across multiple React components
• Access API data with the fetch() and useEffect() React hook

You’ll learn all this and more as we build an e-commerce website that’s both interesting and relevant to modern web development in this React Crash Course. The application built can be accessed on Github and the Github repo contains a checkpoint for each video in the course, so you can easily explore the application at any given point in the course.

You can apply the knowledge you learn in this course in your career as a React JS developer to sharpen your skills and stand out in today’s competitive job market.

With all of that in mind, I hope to see you inside!