Workshop: Modular Apps With React And Styled-Components

Location:

Level: 
Beginner

When:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Key takeaways

introduction to react

styling with styled-components

strategies for building modular layout and style components

react project organization

flexbox layouts

Prerequisites

  • Participants should be familiar with JavasScript (ES6) basics
  • Participants should be familiar with CSS basics
  • Participants should bring a laptop with the following installed:
  • * git * node vs 6.0 or higher
  • * npm version 3.10+ or yarn version 0.23+
  • * a text editor or ide
  • * Chrome
  • * React-dev tools for chrome

Intro to making webapps with react.js. Once we've built a basic page, we'll cover styling your app, and building modular layout primitives with styled-components. There will brief lectures with time to work, and git repo you can follow

Speaker: Ryan Schwers

Senior Software Engineer @Reddit

Ryan Schwers is a frontend architect at Reddit; contributing to the upcoming redesign with a focus on performance and architecture. Previously he's worked on iOS applications at Pushbullet and web apps at Hipmunk.

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Tracks

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  • Going Serverless

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  • Microservices: Patterns and Practices

    Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.

  • DevOps: You Build It, You Run It

    Pushing DevOps beyond adoption into cultural change. Hear about designing resilience, managing alerting, CI/CD lessons, & security. Features lessons from open source, Linkedin, Netflix, Financial Times, & more. 

  • The Art of Chaos Engineering

    Failure is going to happen - Are you ready? Chaos engineering is an emerging discipline - What is the state of the art?

  • The Whole Engineer

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  • Evolving Java

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  • Security: Attacking and Defending

    Offense and defensive security evolution that application developers should know about including SGX Enclaves, effects of AI, software exploitation techniques, & crowd defense

  • The Practice & Frontiers of AI

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  • 21st Century Languages

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  • Modern CS in the Real World

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  • Stream Processing In The Modern Age

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