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Adetayo Taiwo
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Zero to Junior: Your Web Development Journey with ReactJS

Week 1 - 2
Project Management with Jira

  • Understand Agile & Scrum basics
  • Create user stories, tasks, and epics
  • Update task status (To Do, In Progress, Done)
  • Comment and log work on tickets

Week 2 - 4
Basic HTML5 / CSS3 Concepts

  • HTML5 Tags
  • HTML5 Tags – Tables
  • HTML5 Tags – Forms
  • CSS3 (Inline, Embedded & External CSS)

Week 5 - 6
Advanced HTML5 / CSS3 Concepts

  • HTML5 Tags
  • HTML5 Tags – Tables
  • HTML5 Tags – Forms
  • TailwindCSS

Week 7 - 8 - 9
JavaScript Foundations: Core JS Concepts

  • Data types, variables, operators
  • Conditional statements & loops
  • Functions (declaration, expression, arrow)
  • Arrays and objects (CRUD operations)

Week 10 - 11
JavaScript Advanced Concepts

  • Scope & Closures
  • Hoisting
  • The “this” keyword
  • Prototypes & Inheritance
  • ES6+ features (let/const, spread/rest, destructuring)
  • Asynchronous JavaScript
    1. Callbacks
    2. Promises
    3. async/await
    4. Fetch API

Week 12
Basics: Version Control with Git & GitHub

  • Install Git & create GitHub account
  • Learn basic Git commands (init, add, commit, push, pull)
  • Create and clone repositories
  • Work with branches and pull requests
  • Collaborate using GitHub issues & discussions

Week 13 - 15
Phase 6: React Fundamentals
React Basics

  • What is React & why use it?
  • Create React App / Vite setup
  • JSX syntax
  • Functional Components
  • Props and State

React Core Concepts

  • Event handling
  • Conditional rendering
  • List rendering (map)
  • Component reuse & composition

React Hooks

  • useState
  • useEffect
  • useRef
  • useContext

React Router

  • Setting up routes
  • Navigating between pages
  • Dynamic routes & params

Week 16 - 20
Project Development
Goal: Combine tools + code to simulate real-world tasks
Version Control

  • Push code to GitHub regularly
  • Collaborate via branches
  • Open pull requests & review code

Jira Integration

  • Break projects into tasks
  • Assign yourself tasks
  • Track progress using Jira boards

Component Architecture

  • Container vs Presentational components
  • Smart/Dumb components
  • Prop drilling vs Context API

State Management

  • Context API
  • Redux (basic intro)

Additional Tools

  • Form handling (react-hook-form)
  • API handling (Axios)
  • Custom hooks
  • Error boundaries
  • Dev tools (React Dev Tools, Redux DevTools)

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