Resources for Web Developers in 2022

Stimulus is self-described as "A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have".

This collection will show you how to build a Stimulus controller that allows a user to filter a collection of DOM elements based on a variety of inputs.

You'll learn:

* How to connect a Stimulus controller
* What an `action` and a `target` are, and how they work
* Modern JavaScript to make filtering a collection simple
* Techniques to make your code extensible and reusable

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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Filter a Collection Using Stimulus

## Intro

Animations do more than just look good. They can draw the user's attention to important information or let them know they can interact with certain elements.

You can use them to smooth transitions and bring your applications to life. It makes you stand out from the usual wall of text that you see on most applications. 

But here is the issue, animations can get complicated. You have to have a good understanding of how CSS works but it takes hours of studying before you can even start trying to animate.

Framer Motion solves this for you and Will Johnson will show you how. 

## The Project

![homepage gif for showing code](https://res.cloudinary.com/dg3gyk0gu/video/upload/q_100/e_loop/v1642099022/course-resources/animate-react-apps-with-framer-motion-aa83f52c/will-johnson-gif.gif)

In this course, you’ll iteratively add animation to a fully-styled shopping list app that’s built-in React.

You’ll see how Framer works out of the box, and learn just how customizable it is. Throughout the course, Will demonstrates animation through changing size, direction, and even appearance.

It has smart defaults that handle making the animations smooth and performant. Automatically animating layout changes. It does so much for you it almost feels like you're cheating.

You’ll even see how to animate the path of an SVG making it draw the path for your image. 

## Gain these Skills

Will gives you the knowledge of how to incorporate Framer Motion into any React application. You will be able to customize your animations to do whatever it is you want/need and show your users what items on your app are interactable. You’ll be able to take your static application and make it interactive.  

## Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. The application we are working on is already built for you so you just have to be able to follow along with Will as he integrates Framer Motion into the app. 

## What’s Next?

If you are further interested in learning about animating your applications, [Spring Animation in React with React Spring](https://egghead.io/courses/spring-animation-in-react-with-react-spring-7bb9) is a great place to learn! Christian Nwamba will teach you the skills to begin using the react-spring library and add animation to your React components.

If you are interested in more courses by Will Johnson, he has a mini-course on how to [Create A Blog With Jekyll](https://egghead.io/courses/create-a-blog-with-jekyll-151a). Will shows you how to download, install Jekyll plugins, and create blog posts.

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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Animate React Apps with Framer Motion

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs. 

Tailwind is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.

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Craft Scalable, Custom-Made Interfaces with Tailwind CSS

im·mu·ta·ble i(m)ˈmyo͞odəb(ə)l/ adjective - **unchanging over time or unable to be changed**.

Mutating data is the source of never ending headaches in software systems, and JavaScript code is no exception. Immutable data structures, pure functions, uni-directional data flow... you've probably been hearing these terms.

Immutable.js provides us the data structures and utilities that we need to start introducing this powerful concept of immutability into our applications.

Immutable.js provides many Persistent Immutable data structures including: List, Stack, Map, OrderedMap, Set, OrderedSet and Record.

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Learn how to use Immutable.js

Learn how to make flexible customized Twitch Scenes using the static site generator Eleventy (11ty), CSS, and ComfyJS.

Throughout this course, you'll create scenes for preshow, host, and main desktop display streaming purposes. Using ComfyJS, we'll add embedded chat and be able to create responses to chat commands. Finally, we'll see how to actually setup the scenes in OBS to prepare to use them for your stream.

Bonus: you'll learn a bit more about CSS grid layout, and also the "cicada principle" to be able to show the commands randomly across the scene!

Eleventy was created to be a JavaScript alternative to Jekyll. It’s zero-config by default but has flexible configuration options. Eleventy works with your project’s existing directory structure.

Eleventy uses independent template engines. We don’t want to hold your content hostage. If you decide to use something else later, having your content decoupled in this way will make migration easier.

11ty

Develop Custom Twitch Scenes and Setup in OBS

At the core of a good client-side GraphQL library is a cache. The cache is very important for improving the efficiency of your data retrieval and providing your users with a clean user experience.

In this course, we're going to see how Apollo's powerful cache helps easily solve complex UI problems, such as pagination, handling loading and error states, optimistic updates, and minimizing network requests.

We'll start from the basics, and look at how to make queries and mutations, but then we'll look at how the cache is behind most of Apollo's immediate benefits. We'll explore in-depth how it works, how it stores data, and how we can manually modify it manually for advanced scenarios.

Even if your backend doesn't fully support GraphQL yet, we'll look at how to write GraphQL queries in your components that retrieve local client state under the hood - or that can even make REST API calls.

Apollo provides a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing services, so you can build new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.

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Manage State in React Apps with Apollo Client and GraphQL

Express is a minimal web server built on Node.js that provides essential functionality for delivering web applications to the browser and mobile devices. This series will guide you through the first steps of using Express for building your own applications.

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

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Getting Started with Express.js

Optimizing your application is key to being able to provide your users with a clean and pleasurable experience.

To make your app as performant as possible, you have to send to the browser the least amount of code possible. Also, you want to render the least amount of components on a page at a time as necessary. Then you also want to rerender components in the least amount of time possible.

Tyler has found that working in enterprises and startup cultures that, as you get more developers in a team and as your application grows, a lot of these little practices become ignored or forgotten or missed on a refactor or a pull request. They start to build up over time. Then, at the end of the day, you have a slow-performing app. You go through it, and you have to do all these little updates.

In each one of these lessons, Tyler going to be adding and deleting code to walk you through how to optimize a React app using a dashboard React app as the example.

React Optimization Cookbook

In this course, we will be building a React Native news app that is read-only when offline. 

The videos are recorded on a Mac with an iPhone 13 Simulator using plain React Native, but you can do this course using Android, Windows and even the Expo managed workflow. See the lesson description for platform-specific instructions. The solutions repo has been verified to work on a Pixel 3a Emulator on Mac.

The completed app for this course is available [here](https://github.com/kadikraman/news-flash) and each lesson will include a link to the commit that added the code so you can check your work.

After we build our news app, we're going to enhance it to make it read-only when offline using urql'g GraphCache.

This course will require you to run the api locally on your device. The api repo is available [here](https://github.com/kadikraman/news-flash-api).

**Resources:**
- urql: https://formidable.com/open-source/urql/docs/
- Insomnia: https://insomnia.rest/
- Async Storage: https://github.com/react-native-async-storage/async-storage
- React Native Netinfo: https://github.com/react-native-netinfo/react-native-netinfo

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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Build a News App with React Native, GraphQL and TypeScript

**Build a fully managed, serverless GraphQL API powered by TypeScript and AWS CDK in a matter of hours, not days.**

AWS CDK gives us the power to go all-in with infrastructure as code for AWS. With it, we can create a full GraphQL API with AppSync, a database with DynamoDB, serverless functions with Lambda, and much more. 

In this course, you will learn how to do all of the above from your command line and code editor, which will save you time and give you greater flexibility. 

Want to delete your stack? That's fine, just run `cdk destroy` and *poof,* all of the resources are gone. Changed your mind? Just deploy the stack again and they all come back. 

**AWS CDK makes it that easy.**

And since we are working from the command line and our code editor, we will take advantage of TypeScript and other third-party libraries to improve our developer experience. 

So stop wasting time in the AWS console, check out this course, and learn how to leverage infrastructure as code to your advantage.

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.

Build a GraphQL API with AWS CDK and AppSync

HTML5 includes powerful drawing APIs that allow you to use the `canvas` element and JavaScript to draw whatever you want, directly on the page.

HTML 5 is the structure of our web pages. It is the markup that represents the DOM (document object model).

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Learn HTML5 Graphics and Animation

In this series we will take a look at Gulp. Gulp is a task runner. It is the commander of our army of helper robots that take critical, yet totally mundane, tasks and perform them hundreds of times per day so we don't have to. When we sit down to work, we want to enter a single command, and then spend the rest of our day writing code, testing, and basically not thinking about how it is all glued together in the background.

Automation is critical to any project of significant size. We will start with the Eggly Bookmarks application, and develop proper build automation that will include **production ready** tools that you can start using in your applications today!

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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Angular Automation with Gulp

Build an NFT Based Ticketing System

Best practices for building & testing redux applications have changed dramatically over time. This course aims to be a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for those seeking to confidently test their redux apps. Whether you're just getting started or want to improve on your existing testing strategy, there will be something in this course for you.

This first few lessons of this course look at how to add jest to an existing react/redux application that was built on top of [vite](https://vitejs.dev/). We cover basic functionality like using `npm test` vs `npx jest` and generating and using [code coverage](https://jestjs.io/docs/cli#--coverageboolean) to inform our testing strategy.

The next 10 or so lessons cover the specifics of unit testing the redux code in our application. We'll go over how to test reducers, selectors and thunks. As part of this we'll touch on mocking APIs and using [Redux Mock Store](https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-mock-store) as well as running actions through our applications' actual reducers to broaden our test coverage.

In the final part of this course we'll look at how we can test our redux connected react components using the various utilities that come with the [React Testing Library](https://testing-library.com/docs/react-testing-library/intro/). We'll cover simulating various kinds of user input with the [User Event Module](https://testing-library.com/docs/ecosystem-user-event), populating our redux store with test data, using [jest spies](https://jestjs.io/docs/jest-object#jestspyonobject-methodname), how to wait for asynchronous tasks to complete, and several approaches for finding & asserting that visual elements exist on the page.

This course is built on top of content that was created for the [Modern Redux with RTK and TypeScript](https://app.egghead.io/playlists/modern-redux-with-redux-toolkit-rtk-and-typescript-64f243c8) course and I highly recommend you start there if you haven't completed it already. It does expect a *basic* familiarity with react, redux and jest. TypeScript is used in these lessons, but is not a major focus and hopefully won't distract you too much if you prefer plain JavaScript.

No matter your experience level with redux and testing react applications, I'm confident your abilities will level up as you watch this course and follow along with the examples.

Thank you!

jest

Confidently Testing Redux Applications with Jest & TypeScript

Front-end web architecture has made exciting advances in recent years. But before we get to that we need to have a discussion on what has led us to this point and the driving principles behind it.

Since JQuery, we've progressively been decoupling our logic from the DOM. After JQuery, frameworks like Angular were able to abstract that logic into controllers and services. Then Redux came along and brought a simplified that let us reorganize our logic into more cohesive units. 

We should be taking advantage of improved decoupling in the modern web. If you can write a function you can write an endpoint. And if you understand frontend architecture principles, then you already understand cloud architecture principles. 

In this course, you will learn how to decouple JavaScript functions from the environment they live in. By using the Serverless framework and AWS, you will see how straightforward it is to create an endpoint. 

So check out this course and start lifting your functions into the cloud today!

Transform Local Functions Into Endpoints With Serverless

The underpinnings of tools like Babel and ESLint, Abstract Syntax Trees (or ASTs) are not nearly as scary as you might think. This is a collection of all the egghead.io lessons I (Kent) have put out there.

Abstract Syntax Trees

Web accessibility (also referred to as a11y) is the design and creation of websites that can be used by everyone. Accessibility support is necessary to allow assistive technology to interpret web pages.

React fully supports building accessible websites, often by using standard HTML techniques.

Erin Doyle is an expert in creating accessible React applications and has developed a course that will give you a concrete process for auditing react apps for accessibility. In this course, you will go through different tools and libraries to audit components in a React app.

Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

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Auditing React Apps for Accessibility 

Scripting can save you a _ton_ of time by automating your daily workflows.

But it's hard to justify the time investment of learning Bash to write your scripts.

Bash is the great barrier we all face when trying to script away our daily tasks. There are some common problems that we run into when dealing with it. Like what if we want to display images? Or share our script with other devs _cross platform_? 

You know what you want your script to do. You know you could figure it out if you had the time. But it's all just too darn much.

What if you could write your scripts in JavaScript, launch a GUI, and were actually *easy* to share with your team? **audible gasp**

Script Kit is the tool that’s been missing from your developer toolbox for so, so long. 🛠

![word-api.gif](https://res.cloudinary.com/dg3gyk0gu/image/upload/v1639684537/course-resources/script-kit-cook-book/word-api.gif)

**Download the new hotness here: [https://scriptkit.com](https://scriptkit.com/) 🔥**

We even use Script Kit internally at [egghead.io](http://egghead.io) to manage our lesson transcripts! With a single script, we query an API to list the transcripts, modify them as necessary, then post the changes.  

**This course was made to show you what Script Kit can do for you.** 

John Lindquist, the creator of Script Kit and co-founder of egghead.io, has put together this series of lessons to give a quick overview of the features of Script Kit to help you get oriented. 

We know you’ll be off and having a blast with your own scripting ideas in no time!

How often do you avoid scripting something because it takes too much effort?\n\nScript Kit makes it easy to create and run scripts that solve your daily problems. Create a new script from the prompt then your script opens in the editor of your choice. Write a few lines of JavaScript. Then run the script from the prompt.\n\nSimply put, Script Kit helps you script away the friction of your day.

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Script Kit Showcase for Optimizing Your Everyday Workflows

When you are first building your blog site, it can be difficult to choose what content management system you want to use, and choosing a new framework can be daunting. They can be overwhelming and have a large learning curve.

Open up your knowledge of a powerful Nuxt module with Nuxt Content! Nuxt has a low barrier of entry and you don't have to fight with a content management system or API keys. 

In this course, you will learn how to create your own blog with just Nuxt and a folder of markdown files. Ben will take you from creating your Nuxt project from scratch all the way to deploying your digital garden on Netlify. 

Ben Hong is one of the core team members over at Vue.js and has developed this course to give you a concrete understanding of Nuxt Content and how to build your blog efficiently. 

Vue (pronounced /vjuː/, like view) is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. On the other hand, Vue is also perfectly capable of powering sophisticated Single-Page Applications when used in combination with modern tooling and supporting libraries.

Build a Digital Garden with Nuxt and Nuxt Content Module

**Get started building dynamic apps with GraphQL and Vue3.**

As your app scales, so does the complexity of managing your routes and API endpoints. 

It gets tiresome. 

But this aspect of web development can be streamlined considerably! 

GraphQL is a powerful tool for querying and mutating your data. In this course, we are going to create a Vue3 app that leverages GraphQL to create a dynamic front end.

But what does GraphQL *do*? 

Its power comes from giving you a *single* endpoint that you make all your queries to. Instead of making a request to a specific endpoint and getting a fixed response, you can write flexible queries to a single endpoint.

![REST vs GraphQL diagram](https://res.cloudinary.com/dg3gyk0gu/image/upload/v1638989029/course-resources/create-a-graphql-powered-vue-3-application/rest_vs_graphql.png)

Vue3 has some great new features that we will be exploring, such as the setup script syntax. But you won't just be exploring Vue3's new features, we will be building a dynamic front end with an index, view pages generated from data, and forms.

To make our frontend dynamic, we will be powering it with GraphQL. We start with the basics by creating queries but we move on to more advanced topics such as query params, mutations, and pagination.

To actually use GraphQL in our Vue app we will be using the Vue Apollo Client. Which gives us convenient methods for making queries, getting the data back into the client, and handling errors.

## Gain These Skills

- Add GraphQL to a Vue 3 project
- Query and mutate data with GraphQL in Vue 3
- Create data-driven views with Apollo client
- Handle routing within a Vue 3 project
- Implement optimistic updates and infinite scroll

## Prerequisites

Some entry-level knowledge on Vue and GraphQL is recommended, but this course is beginner-friendly enough to where it isn't a strict requirement.

If you want to build a deeper foundation for both Vue and GraphQL we have a couple of awesome courses that you can hack through. 

For Vue, check out **[The Beginner's Guide to Vue 3](https://egghead.io/courses/the-beginner-s-guide-to-vue-3-1c46da8b),** which is also by Kevin. It's great for both newcomers to web dev and veterans alike. 

And for GraphQL, work through **[GraphQL Query Language](https://egghead.io/courses/graphql-query-language)** from Eve Porcello. Eve literally wrote the book on learning GraphQL and her course is similarly top quality. 

## What's Next?

Progressive Web Apps are a more advanced topic, and converting an existing Single Page **Vue** App into one makes for an excellent follow-up project. **->** [Offline-First Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in Vue.js](https://egghead.io/courses/offline-first-progressive-web-apps-pwa-in-vue-js)

If you want to take your **GraphQL** game to the next level, then becoming an expert in designing GraphQL schemas is the way to go. **->** [Designing GraphQL Schemas](https://egghead.io/courses/designing-graphql-schemas-99db)

And I know the following recommendation is a React course but *it really is that good*. You will learn some **advanced** techniques that will be applicable to Vue or any other Apollo compatible framework that you work with. **->** [Manage State in React Apps with Apollo Client and GraphQL](https://egghead.io/courses/manage-state-in-react-apps-with-apollo-client-and-graphql-a45b3b89)

Create a GraphQL Powered Vue 3 Application

In this course, you will learn all about AWS Amplify and how you can leverage it to handle authentication and authorization in your applications.

Ali Spittel takes all of this and puts it in one streamlined package that will get your users signed in, creating, and accessing data in the blink of an eye! Amplify helps you configure serverless backends with authentication, storage, and data, using intuitive workflows. 

Amplify abstracts a lot of deep auth mechanics away from you, the developer, and allows you to harness the power of backend development without needing deep cloud knowledge. At the end of this course, you will be able to Build a React App with Authorization and Authentication from scratch.

Bite-size video tutorials for badass web developers.