Udemy Learn React and Meteor in 2021: Build a multiplayer game

Become a pro in Meteor and React by building a multiplayer, browser game with a retro style UI

What you'll learn

• React State
• React Components
• React Lifecycle Methods
• Meteor Methods
• Meteor Publications and Subscriptions
• Meteor Reactivity with Tracker
• Advanced Animations in React
• React-Spring Animation Library
• Build a game with the web stack
• Basic multiplayer gaming with the web stack
• Optimising web performance in React
• Database setup
• CRUD operations for the server and client
• Real-time data changes on the client

Requirements

• Basic web development skills with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Windows, Mac or Linux computer
• Internet connection to download software

Description
Learn to use Meteor and React in a way that it is used by professional developers around the world. We will show you tricks and tips that you will not find in the manual. We will touch on:

1. How to make sure your React app is super optimized for the best performance on the frontend
2. How to run a multiplayer game that is played by people from different browsers and updating the UI in real time
3. Working with Meteor on the server to handle data and and logging of scores
4. Building animations with React-Spring

Web development is becoming increasingly complex and the amount of tools and frameworks out there seems infinite. You can probably relate to how I felt for a big part of my web development journey - I always wondered how developers build those amazing web apps that feel interactive, native and just looks amazing! How is all that achieved with HTML, CSS and JavaScript? We will teach and expose you to the most modern web development tools, frameworks and programming paradigms used by top developers at the biggest tech companies on the planet!
We designed this course to help beginners break out and take the next step and become comfortable with the many terms, concepts and frameworks that are widely used in in web development.
The course is jam packed with development goodies, tips, tools and techniques to take you further in your development journey. We will work with a bunch of tools and frameworks like:

• Meteor: Meteor is a full stack web development framework that is rising fast in popularity! They were recently acquired by Tiny Capital and have a the resources to make it one of the best frameworks the web has seen to date. We will use Meteor as project scaffold and make use of it's powerful features that come out of the box.
• React: React is the go to frontend framework for developers the world over. It is not easy to get into, but it is worth the effort! React will help us create a fast and responsive front end for our project.
• react-spring: React Spring is an advanced animation library for React. It will help us create amazing animations.
• Git: We will work with Git and Github as our version control system.
• NPM: We will use Node Package Manager to handle our packages for us.
• SASS: We are using SASS to write our styling in.

You will learn about:

• Imports in JavaScript
• JavaScript ES6 syntax
• State management in React
• Re-usable components in React
• Advanced animations in React
• Sass and SCSS
• React Concepts and Features
• What makes Meteor great as our full stack web framework
• Meteor methods
• Realtime data management
• Reading and storing data in the database in real-time
• Updating the UI in real-time without any page loads
• Multiplayer, cross-browser data management

Thanks for reading and see you in the course!
Who this course is for:

• Beginner and Intermediate web developers
• React beginners
• Aspiring full stack web developers
• Backend developers that want up their skills on the front end
• Beginner web developers interested in building games
• Developers that want to sharpen their web development skills to become more professional