Resources for Web Developers in 2021

Lessons based on posts from my blog - https://kyleshevlin.com

React is one of the web’s most popular frameworks for building JavaScript applications. 

If you know what you’re doing, React can drastically simplify how you build, use, and maintain code.

Whether you’re a React newbie or you’re ready for advanced techniques, you can level-up with egghead. Explore our in-depth courses, lessons, and community resources to build more powerful applications and crack open your career.

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Kyle Shevlin's Blog Lessons

Node.js is a well established server runtime that many companies are using worldwide. Express.js is a server framework for Node.js used by over 5 million projects. ReasonML is a type-safe functional language that compiles to Javascript.

This playlist collects the basic pieces of information a programmer needs to get started building servers in ReasonML on Node.js and Express.js. Follow along to learn how to get the speed of Node, combined with the added type-safety of Reason.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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Making an HTTP server in ReasonML on top of Node.js

Ongoing playlist.

Don't be afraid to watch videos at 1.25x if the pace is too slow!

Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.

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ReasonML Applications for the React Developer

Angular is basically a collection of Components brought together within modules. The many tools, such as the Angular CLI, allow you to easily create Components. The key to understanding Angular is understanding how Components interact with each other through Services, Inputs, and Outputs. It's also essential to understand the basics of styling components and how CSS is shared so you can make your application look the way you want.

This course will step us through creating a simple Angular application starting with the Angular CLI. We will build out a few components that will handle events through Angular Event handlers. The course will then finish up with styling the application.

Angular is a development platform for creating applications using modern web standards. Angular includes a wealth of essential features such as mobile gestures, animations, filtering, routing, data binding, security, internationalization, and beautiful UI components. It's extremely modular, lightweight, and easy to learn.

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Get Started with Angular

Collection of top tips and tricks based on recommendation, popular demand and personal preferences.

Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment (IDE) built and maintained by Microsoft. It is offered free of charge.

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VS Code Tips and Tricks

One challenge when learning AngularJS is that most examples are trivial. It is difficult to find materials on learning "real-world" patterns and practices.

The joy of Angular is that you are free to build an application in any form that you wish. MCV, MVVM, MVP, MV*whatever*... You get to decide! Freedom is wonderful. 

"But what if I choose poorly?"

Good question.

This series will demonstrate how to organize and tool your AngularJS application for real work. It's an opinion. A way that has worked on our own projects. Use it as a guide for building the solution that best suits the needs of your projects. All projects are different, but with the right set of modular tools you can build a foundation for success.

Building on the previous series, we are going to refactor Eggly to be modular and scalable. By introducing modules and sub-modules, domain models and state management with ui-router, we will start to establish best practices on how an AngularJS application should not only function, but fit together.

Be sure to check out Part 1: [AngularJS App From Scratch: Getting Started](https://egghead.io/courses/angularjs-app-from-scratch-getting-started)

AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework, maintained by Google, that assists with running single-page applications. Its goal is to augment web-based applications with model–view–controller (MVC) capability, in an effort to make both development and testing easier.

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AngularJS Application Architecture

Emotion and Gatsby let you build static websites and dynamic applications while sharing composable styles.

[Emotion](http://emotion.sh) is a library designed for writing css styles with JavaScript. It provides powerful and predictable style composition in addition to a great developer experience with features such as source maps, labels, and testing utilities.

[Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org) is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps

Gatsby is a blazing fast static site generator built with React. Gatsby gives you all of the modern JavaScript tools you want; set up and ready to go out of the box.

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Using Emotion with Gatsby

If you're a web developer who has been itching to get into native development, now is your chance. In this series we'll be talking all about React Native. React Native allows you to build native iOS and Android applications in JavaScript and React.js. 

Regardless of your experience with React, or even with iOS development, my hope is that this series will be beneficial to everyone who is starting out with React Native. We'll jump straight into developing with React Native by looking first at the ecosystem of building React Native apps - including  Xcode, the iPhone simulator, live reload, debugging, and more. 

Once we get our ecosystem set up and our hello world example running using ES5, we'll jump straight into building a fully functioning iPhone app which utilizes many of the best parts of developing with React Native all while covering React.js and refactor to ES6 along the way.

React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components.

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React Native Fundamentals

This collection of videos teaches you how to use [KeystoneJS](https://v5.keystonejs.com) to build a CRUD-ready GraphQL API, coming with an automatically generated Admin UI. 

Starting with a blank file, we will create an API by:
- defining "Lists" as content types
- adding fields (Select, Text, Checkbox, ...) to our lists
- customising access control to define what users can (and cannot!) do with our API.

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

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Build a CRUD-ready GraphQL API + Admin UI with KeystoneJS

***Note: Some of the RxJS syntax used in this course is outdated, but the concepts taught on arrays, async, and observables are still reliable and applicable.***

Async programming may seem daunting. How can we write programs that accept user input, run animations, and send server requests over the same period? How do we keep the code clear and concise? How do we gracefully propagate and handle asynchronous errors? How can we avoid memory leaks caused by dangling event handlers? JavaScript's loops and try/catch keywords are no help - they only work on synchronous functions.

Here's the good news: Asynchronous programming is much easier than it seems. The key is to think differently about events. It is possible to build most asynchronous programs using a handful of simple functions. We will learn why most JavaScript developers approach asynchronous programming the wrong way, and how to avoid these common mistakes. 

RxJS is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. 


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Asynchronous Programming: The End of The Loop

Learn some of the new features of TypeScript 3.7

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

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TypeScript 3.7 Videos

Examples on how to use the contentful-migration tool to change content models programmatically 

JavaScript® (often shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic, and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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Contentful migration tool in action

The videos in this playlist will get you started building serverless applications using AWS SAM. It covers

* Setting up your AWS credentials
* Building and deploying a Lambda
* Testing your Lambda locally
* Cleaning up your AWS account once you've finished

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a powerful expansive cloud infrastructure platform for building modern web applications.

AWS provides services for data, presentation, authentication, security, video encoding, and much more. Offering over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally, AWS powers a large percentage of the internet.

Introduction to AWS SAM

Learn the main additions. Including flat, flatMap and Object.fromEntries.

ES2019 Additions to JavaScript

Updating this playlist is too hard. Check out: http://kcd.im/advanced-react and http://kcd.im/beginner-react

React from Kent

VSCode ships with quite a few features that aren’t immediately apparent. This playlist will guide you through some of the features VSCode has to offer and get you comfortable navigating and editing files in it.

Learn: 
- VSCode Command Palette
- Configuration
- Navigation
- Custimization

VSCode Basics 

In any programming language or JavaScript framework, you’ll find yourself writing certain lines of code over, and over… and over again. That can be automated. VSCode uses the idea of snippets to do this. Snippets allow you to define templates that write the boilerplate for you in whenever you need.

You can define your own snippets, download them as a package from the Marketplace or use Emmet (pre-installed) to save time and avoid writing boilerplate or commonly used patterns.

Code Generation in VSCode 

Here are all the Egghead.io lessons about testing with Jest! http://facebook.github.io/jest (https://kcd.im/egghead-jest)

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Testing JavaScript with Jest

**Data** is the bedrock of any application, including your AngularJS project. This series will dive deep into data models, and how to effectively use them in your applications. 

AngularJS's solution out of the box is $resource, but this service isn't always the best solution. Many times we need a custom model layer that serves the needs of our application. This series explores building a $resource alternative from scratch using TDD.

It's intended for **intermediate-advanced AngularJS developers** that want to dig a little deeper to lower level abstractions for core systems in their applications.

AngularJS Data Modeling

Some introductory lessons on Webpack (webpack.github.io). Not tied to any particular framework.

webpack is a tool to build JavaScript modules in your application. To start using webpack from its cli or api, follow the Installation instructions. webpack simplifies your workflow by quickly constructing a dependency graph of your application and bundling them in the right order. webpack can be configured to customise optimisations to your code, to split vendor/css/js code for production, run a development server that hot-reloads your code without page refresh and many such cool features.

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Intro to Webpack

With the release of the React Hooks API, it is now possible to store state in functional components. In this playlist, we'll take an initial look at the `useState` hook as well as a few others. In one of the later lessons, we'll build a custom hook, a tool for easily sharing functionality with more that one component.

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