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Frontend Web Development
- Course name: Frontend Web Development
- Code discipline: R-01
- Subject area:
Short Description
This course covers the following concepts: The main goal of the course is to introduce modern concepts of frontend development in the industry to the listeners and give them basic knowledge and practical skills that can be helpful at their first job as a frontend developer. We will explore such topics as pages markup with HTML and CSS, writing business logic using JavaScript and TypeScript, development of Single Page Applications with modern frameworks and libraries (Angular, React, Vue), usage of relevant technologies and approaches (CSS-in-JS, GraphQL, WebSockets, Web Components, etc.).; As a participant of the course you will develop your own SPA that will interact either with the API provided by us or with the open API of any popular service..
Prerequisites
Prerequisite subjects
Prerequisite topics
Course Topics
Section | Topics within the section |
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Introduction. Current state of the industry. Developer roadmap and technologies overview. |
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Markup. HTML, CSS, DOM and styles inspector in browser. |
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JavaScript. Syntax, data types, paradigms, specifics. |
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JavaScript. Engine and execution environments specifics. TypeScript. |
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React. Basics, render concepts, hooks, devtools. |
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React. Ecosystem, CSS-in-JS, routing, webpack + babel. |
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React. Applications architecture, stateless and stateful components, dumb and smart components, global state management. |
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React. Code quality, linting, testing, optimizations. |
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NodeJS: JavaScript on backend, ExpressJS, NestJS, etc. |
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Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
What is the main purpose of this course?
After the course is completed, a student should know the basics of:
ILOs defined at three levels
Level 1: What concepts should a student know/remember/explain?
By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...
- Resources that can help in furhther development of their skills
- Resources that can help during the work as a frontend web developer
- Role of frontend web-interfaces in modern systems
Level 2: What basic practical skills should a student be able to perform?
By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...
- Key concepts that are laid into the basis of JavaScript
- Purpose of modern frontend frameworks
- Key concepts that are laid into the React framework
- What are the other technologies that appear in the JavaScript ecosystem
Level 3: What complex comprehensive skills should a student be able to apply in real-life scenarios?
By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...
- Perform everyday tasks of frontend web developer:
- Develop view of pages and components using HTML and CSS
- Write business logic using JavaScript and/or TypeScript
- Perform HTTP requests to an API and process responses
- Configure page appearance depending on routes
- Handle HTML forms
Grading
Course grading range
Grade | Range | Description of performance |
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A. Excellent | 80-100 | - |
B. Good | 65-79 | - |
C. Satisfactory | 50-64 | - |
D. Poor | 0-49 | - |
Course activities and grading breakdown
Activity Type | Percentage of the overall course grade |
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Labs/seminar classes | 10 |
Interim performance assessment | 40 |
Exams | 50 |
Recommendations for students on how to succeed in the course
Resources, literature and reference materials
Open access resources
- Role of frontend web-interfaces in modern systems
- What should a student be able to understand at the end of the course?
- Current state of the industry of frontend web development
- Key concepts that are laid into the basis of JavaScript
- Purpose of modern frontend frameworks
- Key concepts that are laid into the React framework
- What are the other technologies that appear in the JavaScript ecosystem
- What should a student be able to apply at the end of the course?
- Setup and develop basic single page application using React
- Perform everyday tasks of frontend web developer:
- Develop view of pages and components using HTML and CSS
- Write business logic using JavaScript and/or TypeScript
- Perform HTTP requests to an API and process responses
- Configure page appearance depending on routes
- Handle HTML forms
Closed access resources
Software and tools used within the course
Teaching Methodology: Methods, techniques, & activities
Activities and Teaching Methods
Learning Activities | Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Section 4 | Section 5 | Section 6 | Section 7 | Section 8 | Section 9 |
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Development of individual parts of software product code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Homework and group projects | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Formative Assessment and Course Activities
Ongoing performance assessment
Section 1
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | What are the most used frameworks in frontend development? | 1 |
Question | What frameworks do best suit particular types of projects? | 1 |
Question | How can you understand which skills you need to master next? | 1 |
Section 2
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | What is the purpose of tags head, body? | 1 |
Question | What is the difference between inline and block elements? | 1 |
Question | Where you can find styles applied to pseudo-classes in the devtools? | 1 |
Question | How do you add a new element to a page in the devtools? | 0 |
Question | What is the purpose of DOCTYPE tag? | 0 |
Question | What is semantic markup? What is accessibility in contect of HTML? | 0 |
Section 3
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | Which datatypes do exist in JavaScript? | 1 |
Question | What is the object in JavaScript? | 1 |
Question | Which control structures in JavaScript do you know? | 1 |
Question | What is the difference between arrow and classical functions? | 0 |
Question | What is the difference between var, let and const? | 0 |
Question | What is JSON? Which instruments do we have in JavaScript for work with JSON? | 0 |
Section 4
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | Do we have any possibility to run multiple threads in JavaScript? | 1 |
Question | What is the Promise? Why do we need async and await keywords? | 1 |
Question | What is TypeScript and which problems it solves? | 1 |
Question | How do we set a callback for any event? | 0 |
Question | What is the difference between Promise.all() and Promice.race()? | 0 |
Question | How does the event loop wokr? | 0 |
Section 5
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | What is the main difference between class components and functional components? | 1 |
Question | How to use React without JSX? | 1 |
Question | What is Virtual DOM? | 1 |
Question | What is the difference between useCallback and useMemo? | 0 |
Question | What is a controlled component? What is an uncontrolled component? | 0 |
Question | Which lifecycle methods do exist in React? | 0 |
Section 6
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | What is the boilerplate? | 1 |
Question | What technologies of styling do we have? | 1 |
Question | What is the difference between Link and NavLink in React Router? | 1 |
Question | How to setup a React project without a boilerplate? | 0 |
Question | What is the difference between BrowserRouter and HashRouter? | 0 |
Section 7
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | What are the pros and cons of a mono-repository? | 1 |
Question | What are the pros and cons of multi-repository? | 1 |
Question | Which patterns are most wiedly used in React applications? | 1 |
Question | What is Flux architecture? | 0 |
Question | Why do we need any external solution for state menegement? Why can't we use the Context API or useDispatch hook? | 0 |
Section 8
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | How to track rerenders in React? | 1 |
Question | How to avoid unnecessary rerenders in React? | 1 |
Question | What is SonarQube? Why do we need it? | 1 |
Question | Why do we need to use code linters? | 0 |
Question | What is the difference between test runner and testing framework? | 0 |
Question | Why do we need react-testing-library? | 0 |
Section 9
Activity Type | Content | Is Graded? |
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Question | What is npm in Node? | 1 |
Question | How does Node prevent blocking code? | 1 |
Question | What is the NodeJS Process Model? | 1 |
Question | Why should you separate Express 'app' and 'server'? | 0 |
Question | What is a module in NestJS? What is an interceptor? | 0 |
Question | What is a middleware in ExpressJS? | 0 |
Final assessment
Section 1
Section 2
- How can you center an element inside of a div container with predefined width and height?
- What properties of flex elements do you know?
- How does a browser understand which CSS rule to apply in case of conflict?
Section 3
- How does prototypical inheritance work?
- What is the difference between Map and WeakMap?
- Why can “this” be lost in JavaScript?
Section 4
- What are micro-tasks and macro-tasks?
- What is the difference between bubbling and capturing?
- What is the Event delegation?
Section 5
- How does React check if a component needs to be rerendered?
- What is the difference between Component and PureComponent?
- How to emulate lifecycle methods in functional components?
Section 6
- What is babel? Why do we need it?
- What is better: axios or Fetch API?
Section 7
- Describe the concept of stateless and stateful components
- Describe the concept of dumb and smart components
Section 8
- How to emulate browser features (cookies, events, etc.) in unit tests?
- Which main optimization problems in React do you know?
- How do you test asynchronous functions?
Section 9
- How to make a post request in Node.js?
- How to create a simple server in Node.js that returns Hello World?
- What is the difference between NodeJS Environment and browser environment?
- P.1.2.10 Section 10
- Section title: Technologies overview: workers, WebSockets, GraphQL, Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, etc.
- Topics covered in this section:
- Service Workers, Web Workers
- WebSockets
- GraphQL
- Web Components
- Progressive Web Apps
- What forms of evaluation were used to test students’ performance in this section?
- Typical questions for ongoing performance evaluation within this section
- What are the concepts lying behind Web Components?
- What are the concepts lying behind PWA?
- What is the difference between Service Workers and Web Workers
- Typical questions for seminar classes (labs) within this section
- What is the difference between query and mutation in GraphQL
- Why do we need Web Sockets?
- Test questions for final assessment in this section
The retake exam
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