Resources for Web Developers in 2021

In this beginner friendly series on React, we'll start a new project from scratch
with Create React App, and step by step, build a functional and relatively useful React app
that lets you find inspiration on "baby names", with search and shortlisting functionality.

Through the lessons, we'll cover an introduction to JSX, approach concepts like props, state,
React hooks, "thinking in components", and embrace a progressive refactoring mindset.

Once the app is complete, we'll look at how to reduce prop drilling with the use of the Context API,
and we'll even create our own custom React hook!

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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Build a "Name Picker" app -  Intro to React, Hooks & Context API

Building larger serverless applications can be tricky - creating many lambda functions as well as other resources such as DynamoDB tables, S3 buckets, API Gateways using AWS Console takes quite a lot of time. Not to mention other problems such as redeploying the app to a different region, reviewing the infrastructure etc.

**AWS Serverless Application Model** (**AWS SAM** for short) simplifies a lot of those issues 🤩

Built with with best practices in mind, SAM allows you to:

🌟define your infrastructure as code using a YAML template (which can go through code review!)

🌟define resources such as lambda functions, DynamoDB tables etc. in a much simpler way than doing it directly in CloudFormation (which SAM is built on top of)

🌟build and deploy a serverless application from a command line

🌟debug and test lambda functions locally using SAM CLI

🌟debug and test lambda functions from WITHIN your editor with AWS Toolkit extension


Add AWS SAM to your toolkit with this quick collection!

**View and Contribute to the [Community Notes!](https://github.com/eggheadio-projects/build-serverless-applications-with-aws-sam)**

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 serverless applications with AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

With the release of `Next.js` v9+, we've been handed the tools to create full-stack react apps with ease. 

This collection will dive into the fundamentals of API & Dynamic routing, handling data from local json and a DB, plus deployment options. 

This collection will be an ongoing collection, where I continue adding more videos over time 😃

Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.

NextJS Fundamentals

ES2015 brought a native Promise to the JavaScript standard library. In this course, we’re going to take an in-depth look at how to use promises to model various kinds of asynchronous operations.

First, we’re going to explore how to create promises using the Promise constructor or the Promise.resolve() or Promise.reject() methods. Then, we’re going to see how to chain promises together using .then(), .catch(), and .finally(). We’re going to compare various error handling strategies along the way. We’re going to wrap up this course by taking a look at how to deal with multiple promises using Promise.all() and Promise.race() and how to await a promise using the await operator.

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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JavaScript Promises in Depth

Animations attract the eye and add a higher level of engagement for your users. But they’re not easy to set up, and they don’t always look the way they should on every browser. 

Greensock is the best platform available for creating performant, highly-customizable animations. This course will walk you through the features of Greensock, including how to:

- animate an element
- manually control an animation
- animate between CSS classes

…and more, with cross-browser support to ensure your animations look sharp everywhere.

Ultra high-performance, professional-grade HTML5 animation for the modern web

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Create Amazing Animations with GreenSock

Bash makes automation easy. Just a few lines of code can take care of repetitive tasks for you and your teammates. 

In this course, we’ll dive deep into the automation potential of bash. You’ll learn to leverage common hooks that open up interesting automation possibilities, like git hooks, adding functions and aliases in your bash_profile, and running scheduled jobs in launchd.

For example, we’ll write a git hook that checks package.json for changes, and if there are changes, the hook runs npm install for you automatically. 

Along the way, you’ll also learn:

- more advanced bash commands like exec
- syntax such as redirecting stdout and stderr to the same destination
- timesaving tricks like brace expansions

Automation is all about saving you time — and at only 52 minutes, this course is well worth yours. Enjoy!

Bash is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell. Bash is a command processor that typically runs in a text window, where the user types commands that cause actions. Bash can also read and execute commands from a file, called a shell script.

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Advanced Bash Automation for Web Developers

Staying up to date with JavaScript’s changes saves you from being stumped by syntax.

In this course, you’ll learn about all latest language features published with ES2019 and see how they solve problems, using the example of a Nuxt.js application. 

From optional catch binding to creating an object from a list of key-value pairs, you’ll learn the benefits of these new features and understand when, why, and how to use them in your legacy projects and upcoming work. 

JavaScript ES2019 in Practice

These videos include the introductory steps to writing your first Elixir function and beginning to understand some key concepts in Elixir that make it unique. 

Some of those concepts include:
- the Mix build tool
- project structure
- collections of functions written in modules
- function *arity*
- pattern matching and common uses for it
- the pipe operator

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.

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Getting Started with Elixir

In the last few years, the software development industry has seen a resurgence of functional programming. But what is it? And how do you get started? 

“Just Enough” is an introduction to functional programming, written in JavaScript, that doesn’t get bogged down in the jargon and mathematical theory that can be so intimidating. Instead, it provides an approachable introduction to the paradigm that will give you the education and confidence you need to start using the programming style right away.

With “Just Enough” as our guide, this course will focus on the foundational knowledge needed to approach any functional language. By the end of the course, you will understand:

- higher order functions
- pure functions
- immutability
- currying
- partial application
- pointfree programming
- functional composition

In just 30 minutes, you’ll learn more than just enough. 

Just Enough Functional Programming in JavaScript

Most applications rely on databases to store data. Understanding how to create a database and communicate with it unlocks a critical power in your web development career. 

In this course, Tyler presents all the building blocks of creating and interacting with a PostgreSQL database. From creating a brand new table, up through organizing and aggregating data across multiple tables, you will learn the fundamental skills of SQL — and you’ll be prepared to apply them right away.

After completing this course, you’ll be ready to tackle more challenging SQL topics like proper data modeling, normalizing data, and exploring different database types.


Check out the [**Community Notes for this course.**](https://github.com/eggheadio-projects/sql-fundamentals)

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

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SQL Fundamentals

The only better feeling than deleting code is automating away mundane tasks. This playlist shows off many variations of tasks that can be automated away with tools like zsh functions, alfred, and karabiner. These techniques apply broadly to the small development tasks you tackle every day.

Bite-size video tutorials for badass web developers.

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Automate Everything: An egghead Guide to Productivity

This collection gathers lessons that resemble JavaScript interview coding assignments and teaches you to write quality, readable and reusable code. It's always frustrating when you learn the language for months and then some tricky question at the interview stops you from getting a job. Follow the lessons in this collection and be prepared for tricky coding challenges!

Although solving coding assignments is pretty important the true value of the collection lies in the approaching problems correctly, using shortcuts where it's needed and writing verbose code where necessary.

This collection starts with an overview of how to set up a scratchpad in VSCode using quokka.js, so you can follow the lesson in an easier fashion, as this is the technology used to explain concepts! It is followed with an explanation of how to write arrow functions as those are also frequently used throughout the playlist. 

!!! New content is still getting added to the collection !!!

JavaScript interview: Learn functional programming with solving coding challenges

This application serves as an introduction to building products with a JAMStack and Serverless approach. We cover everything from the beginning:

* starting with the Gatsby client
* handling authentication with Netlify Identity
* Shipping a GraphQL server on Netlify Functions
* Building in access control with a serverless capable database

It uses tools that remove as many of the barriers as possible while also allowing upgrading in the future. Netlify Functions can grow into AWS Lambda, Netlify Identity can grow into Auth0 or Cognito, and FaunaDB can grow into DynamoDB.

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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Building a Serverless JAMStack Todo app with Netlify, Gatsby, GraphQL, and FaunaDB

On many websites, images and video make up the vast bulk of the data being sent over the wire; websites will often have _several megabytes_ of images!

There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in this area. In this collection, we'll learn how to convert our images to the `webp` format—a format often **2-3x smaller** than png/jpg—and how to use the `picture` element to ensure graceful fallback on unsupported browsers. We'll see how to come up with a great abstraction for React to make it as painless to use as possible.

Later in this collection, we'll also cover:
- Automatically generating webp images on build
- Leveraging `gatsby-image` to do the same thing in Gatsby
- Smaller images across the browser spectrum with jpeg2000 and jpegxr
- Avoiding layout problems with `display: contents`
- Smaller video with `webm` instead of `mp4`

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Way Smaller Cross-Browser Images and Video with Webp and React

MongoDB has a quite powerful aggregation framework that allows you to write data processing pipelines. Documents in the MongoDB collection go through a series of stages or a pipeline that transforms them into an aggregated result. In this short video series, you will learn how to write aggregations in MongoDB.

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MongoDB Aggregation Framework

Figma is a collaborative prototyping tool that allows you to responsively design your applications, with resolution presets for all of the most popular devices. In this course, we will explore the fundamentals of Figma’s toolset that you can use for various design functions. 

We will start from scratch, then walk through scenarios you may encounter when designing a website or application. We will cover building reusable designs — known as “components” in Figma — all the way up to prototyping your designs to show screen transitions and animations between state. 

By the end of the course, you will understand the basics of Figma so you can use it to your advantage when building your next app or website.

Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.

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The Beginner's Guide to Figma

React Transition Group gives you the power to transition React components in and out of the DOM, depending on the state they’re tied to, with no weird hacks. Without React Transition Group, you may find yourself using a lot of `display: none` in your CSS, along with some pretty nasty `setTimeout` hacks. But with it, you can write your transition elements with a neat, declarative, all-new API — and no hacks in sight. 

You’ll get to explore v2 of the API in this course, as Rory Smith shows you how to use the React Transition Group library to write seamless, performant, beautiful transitions of elements in and out of the DOM. (i.e. no more jumping from state to state without warning.)

You’ll learn the features of React Transition Group in depth, so that you can turn features of your React app from dull and boring to slick and seamless.

Create Smooth, Performant Transitions with React Transition Group v2

In many cases, teams reach for Redux as the de facto choice for state management. But sometimes, Redux is overkill. In those cases, the React Context API might suit your needs perfectly.

In this course, we’ll build a simple email client using the React Context API to pass data throughout the app. You’ll learn how to create a context, how to pass data deeply through an app without manually passing props all over the place, and how to group related data and logic using simple wrapper components. We’ll also cover practical applications like using Context to display and manage notifications, how to maximize performance with Context, and how to test the components that use it to ensure your app is working properly.

React Context for State Management

Go is a server-side language, but today we can compile Go code to WebAssembly as well - making it possible for us to bring programs written in minimalistic Go code into the browser!

With this collection, we will learn how to compile and run Go WebAssembly programs in Node.js and the browser, and how our Go code can interop with JavaScript and manipulate the DOM. We will also talk about configuring our VS Code workspace and optimizing the Go WASM binary size.

Go is an open-source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

WebAssembly with the Go Language


React got that name for a reason. It’s a component-based JavaScript library that renders smartly and can seriously simplify your work.

This course is for React newbies and anyone looking to build a solid foundation. It’s designed to teach you everything you need to start building web applications in React right away.

Each lesson in this 19-part course is a single index.html file. This keeps your focus on learning React, no distractions. We’ll start with a blank file and add more complexity as we go along, wrapping the course with a lesson on how to move into a more production-ready development environment—and even deploy your app to a great service like Netlify.

You'll come out of this course with a solid grasp on:

what problems React can solve
how React solves those problems under the hood
what JSX is and how it translates to regular JavaScript function calls and objects
You’ll build a solid understanding so when you come across JavaScript challenges down the road, you’ll know how to…react.

The Beginner's Guide to React V1 (2017)

This collection contains videos that explore the basic types in Rust, including **Fixed size Integer**, **Pointer sized Integer**, **Boolean**, **Strings**, **Characters**, **Arrays**, **Tuples** and more.

If you're just starting out learning Rust and [wrote your first program](https://egghead.io/courses/write-your-first-program-with-the-rust-language), this collection is the right place to get more familiar with the language!

Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

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Build a "Name Picker" app - Intro to React, Hooks & Context API