Frontend Mastery: JavaScript, React, Next.js (TypeScript)

Week 1-3: JavaScript Fundamentals

• History, use cases, and setup (Node.js, VS Code)
• Variables and Data Types: var, let, const, and type conversion
• Operators and Expressions: Arithmetic, comparison, logical operators
• Control Flow: if/else, switch, for, while, do-while loops
• LinkedIn Profile Basics: Add a professional headline and summary
• CV Preparation (Basic): Start drafting key sections (education, skills, personal projects)

Week 1-3: JavaScript Fundamentals

• Functions: Declaration, expression, arrow functions, closures
• Arrays: Creation, manipulation, and methods (map, filter, reduce)
• Objects: Creating, accessing, and manipulating properties
• Project Update: Implement a mini-project using functions and objects
• LinkedIn: Add JavaScript as a skill
• Resume Update: Showcase JavaScript projects

Week 1-3: JavaScript Fundamentals

• DOM Manipulation: Selecting, modifying, and appending elements
• Event Handling: Event listeners, user input, form validation
• ES6+ Features: Template literals, destructuring, spread/rest operators, promises, async/await
• Hands-On: Create an interactive to-do list with add/delete functionality
• Hands-On: Fetch and display data from a public API
• Project Update: Add event handling and API fetching to the mini-project
• Interview Preparation: Basic JavaScript coding questions

Week 4-10: React Development

• What is React? React vs. Vanilla JavaScript
• Setting up a React Project (Vite or CRA)
• JSX Basics: Writing and rendering components
• Hands-On: Create a simple component-based UI
• Project Update: Convert previous mini-project into React components
• LinkedIn: Add React as a skill

Week 4-10: React Development

• State Management: Using useState
• Props: Passing data between components
• Hands-On: Build a counter app with state and props
• Project Update: Refactor the mini-project with props and state
• Resume Update: Add React experience

Week 4-10: React Development

• Event Handling: Managing events in React
• Lists and Keys: Rendering lists dynamically using .map()
• Introduction to the Final Project
• Hands-On: Build a task list app with dynamic additions
• Project Update: Define features for the final project
• Interview Practice: Common React questions

Week 4-10: React Development

• Controlled vs. Uncontrolled Components
• Managing Form Data: Handling user input and validation
• Hands-On: Create a login form with validation
• Project Update: Add a login system to the final project
• LinkedIn Optimization: Add project descriptions

Week 4-10: React Development

• Routing Basics: Setting up React Router
• Dynamic and Nested Routes
• Hands-On: Create a multi-page React app with navigation
• Project Update: Implement routing in the final project
• Resume Optimization: Format and highlight frontend skills

Week 4-10: React Development

• Context API: Global state management
• Performance Optimization: Using useMemo and useCallback
• Hands-On: Build a theme toggle app using Context API
• Project Update: Implement global state management in the final project
• Mock Interviews (React): Common questions & debugging tasks

Week 4-10: React Development

• Understanding project migration concepts
• Planning migration from React to other frameworks
• Key differences in state management & component structure
• Hands-On: Convert a simple React project to Vue.js and Angular.js
• Project Update: Plan migration for the final project
• Interview Q&A: Framework-specific questions

Week 11-13: Next.js & TypeScript Development

• What is Next.js? Key features and advantages
• Setting up a Next.js project with TypeScript (.tsx files, tsconfig.json)
• Pages and Routing: Static and dynamic routing
• Hands-On: Create a basic multi-page Next.js app using TypeScript
• Project Update: Start integrating Next.js into the final project
• LinkedIn: Add Next.js and TypeScript as skills

Week 11-13: Next.js & TypeScript Development

• Layouts and Shared Components in Next.js
• Global State Management: Context API & Zustand/Redux Toolkit
• Server Components vs. Client Components
• Hands-On: Implement shared layouts and reusable components in the Next.js app
• Hands-On: Use Context API or Zustand for state management
• Project Update: Add layouts and state management to the final project

Week 11-13: Next.js & TypeScript Development

• Static and Server-Side Rendering
• API Routes: Creating backend APIs in Next.js
• Fetching data with useEfrect and use SWR
• Hands-On: Fetch and display data from an external API using TypeScript
• Project Update: Implement API fetching in the final project
• Resume Update: Showcase Next.js & TypeScript projects

• Image Optimization: Using the next/image component
• Middleware and Authentication in Next.js
• Using NextAuth.js for authentication
• Hands-On: Secure pages using authentication
• Hands-On: Optimize images in the project
• Project Update: Implement authentication and middleware in the final project

• Deployment: Deploying Next.js apps on Vercel
• Performance Optimization in Next.js
• SEO best practices in Next.js
• Hands-On: Build a blog with Next.js and deploy it on Vercel
• Project Update: Deploy the final project on Vercel
• Mock Interview Q&A: Next.js & TypeScript

• Final project presentation & Deployment
• Career guidance: frontend coding challenges, Q&A.