In this hands-on course, you’ll learn how to bring modern web applications to life using JavaScript, React, and Node.js. Starting with the essentials of React, you’ll gradually build your skills from simple components to full-stack applications, gaining confidence as you go.
You’ll begin with the foundations of React and quickly move into creating interactive features using props and state management. From there, you’ll explore practical tools like Vite templates, Framer Motion, Lucide icons, and Lodash, learning how they fit into professional development workflows. As your skills grow, you’ll take on real projects, including a mining game and a to-do list app, to practice structuring code efficiently, handling events, and improving user experiences with animations and external libraries. You’ll also dive into more advanced topics such as code refactoring, local storage, and using context providers to manage application state. Finally, you’ll expand into backend and deployment: integrating Express for server-side logic, displaying lists and forms, preparing your app for the web with Progressive Web Apps, and even deploying React projects as desktop applications using Electron. By the end of this 14-module course, you’ll have built multiple projects from scratch and developed the skills to: - Design and refine React components. - Implement state management and event handling. - Connect to backend services with Express. Deploy web and desktop applications with confidence. This course is ideal for beginners with some basic programming experience who want to become full-stack developers. Whether your goal is to build interactive games, practical apps, or production-ready web projects, you’ll finish with both the skills and portfolio pieces to showcase your abilities. This course features Coursera Coach: An interactive learning companion that helps you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding in real time.