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Hey! Ket's take a look at what you'll get from this course.
Overall this course has one main goal: to give you a solid foundation on the React.js essentials through

a core bootcamp.

By the end of the course, you'll know how react works as a framework and an engine,

what it does under the hood and how it fits in the overall big picture of web development.

Now why become a React developer?

Well, if you want to become a web developer and full stack software engineer you have to learn front-

end.

There are a few front and JavaScript web application frameworks that you'll come across, but you should

choose React. And you should choose react for two main reasons;

opportunity and good engineering.

The biggest benefit of knowing React is the sheer amount of opportunity for the framework. Based on analyzing

2018 job postings on Indeed.com, React job posts accounted for 78% of open positions. Angular

another javascript web application framework accounted for 2% of positions. And then Vue.js

accounted for the remaining 1%. Essentially by learning React,

you nearly quadruple your time investment. than the time it would have took to learn the next best alternative.

The other big benefit of learning react is that it combines power, elegance, and simplicity as a javascript

framework.

So this makes the learning curve for react much shorter than other frameworks.

You'll start seeing results, build full web applications sooner and more quickly.

Now don't get me wrong , there is a ton of material technology and engineering to dive into within the

react ecosystem overall. But because of its elegant design react is very friendly to newcomers.

All right,

this is the journey through react that I had planned for you in this course.

Part 1:you'll start by diving into react right away.

Some learn to swim by going right into the deep end. And while that's a drastic approach, it's a shortcut

to being forced to learn a lot out of sheer necessity.

So I think it's a good approach to learn how to code by diving right in and writing the code yourself,

rather than watching a bunch of conceptual videos before you start writing the code.

Getting this immediate react experience will give you the momentum you need to excel and succeed throughout

the rest of the course. In the first section you will build a portfolio application. As a portfolio app,

you'll actually be building a meaningful project something that you can use to boost your profile as

a software engineer and react

developer. In addition, while building this app many of the main concepts of react will appear. Big things

like components, state, props, how to use the setState method properly, and much much more.

Next in part 2: you'll take an important step back and re-examine how react fits in the overall big picture

of web development.

More importantly you'll dig into the react engine itself learning how it works under the hood. With his

deeper understanding react won't feel like this magic technology. React will definitely feel like an

awesome framework. But it'll be more like you've taken the top off of a watch and you can see all the

inner cogs whirring around as the engine is going. So you'll understand how it's really working, why certain

errors are appearing, when they do and the correct fixes to get the behavior that you want.

After that the grand finale will be creating an application called Music Master.

This app is a little search engine to look up musicians and get a playable list of their top tracks.

The main idea is to give you a chance to apply the React concepts you've been learning throughout the

course, as most of the code for the music master application will be presented first as optional coding

challenges, and then the course implementation will come after. In addition to that. throughout the course,

there's a bunch more learning resources like review videos, concept overviews, coding challenges and more.

That way you get a nice balance between practical code and theory.

So overall if your goal is to become proficient with creating react applications well then I welcome

you again to this course!

The journey is set and the first step starts as soon as the next video. See you there!