Welcome to the "web components are the future that is here right now" course. This course is for advanced Web application development and that could go one of two ways.
- Industry way. Adopt whatever gets you an app quickly. You understand how nothing works, adopting whatever conventions someone blogs about
- My way. We learn vanilla and use a very small library just above vanilla called Lit. If you can grasp the micro you can build macro.
Why?
- You'll know what makes up industry tools
- You'll have a broader perspective and still adopt tools but more inline with the right tool for the job (hopefully)
- You'll still learn HTML / CSS / JS but be closer to what their raw capabilities are as opposed to going right to abstraction and being lost
- You'll still learn a popular node based toolchain and how it plays nicely with version control and continuous integration systems
- I use these tools in my own projects, thus making you more able to contribute to them directly
- People taking my courses in the past have instantly gone into dev careers implementing web components because they are becoming a valid industry go to
If that's true. I suggest you read this. https://eloquentjavascript.net/ or http://Javascript.info I won't quiz you on it but it's going to make life a lot more logical as we go through things like event loop and JS logic.
I'd also question that you need a book in the age of AI, free online tutorials, and a mountain of resources from Google Code Labs to YouTube to Coursera. The web is made of the stuff we use to learn about it, so look there.
- UI/UX - http://learnux.io
- HTML -https://w3schools.com
- CSS - https://web.dev/learn/css/
- JavaScript http://Javascript.info
- Git / Github - https://gitimmersion.com
List a sub-set of this list compiled by X @mujeeb0147 - https://twitter.com/mujeeb0147/status/1744569325241958809
How this class works - ALWAYS IN THE draft-outline.md
- You log into this repo, and go to the draft-outline.md file so that you can see what we are working on
- You follow along with tutorial and discussions in class
- You continue work beyond class, usually with external videos to watch, readings, code to write
- You blog about what you are doing and how it's going
- We work on these things more in class and openly review / critique code together
- common-issues.md is for.. common... issues. We all have them, especially when getting a pattern for learning down. To make my life more plesant and you to get answers faster, look through it before you have issues as we dig into code. It's a very repeatable feedback loop.
- https://lit.dev - I will assign things from the tutorial / playground there but its on you to get into documentation and better understand the library and how it impacts the web
- https://lit.dev/learn/ - different tutorials in video, written and playground form. Really great stuff here though a lot of it is a bit more advanced than how we'll be approaching Lit for development
- https://open-wc.org/ - OpenWC is the toolchain we're using, probably won't need this site but worth mentioning at least
