UDEMY 2021 - Build a Slack Chat App with React, Redux, and Firebase

David K Mar 28, 2020

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Create a complete, full-stack chat application from front to back with React, Redux, Firebase 5, and Semantic UI React

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What you’ll learn

Create full-stack apps with React, Redux and Firebase, among other tools in the React ecosystem

Make complete React apps from scratch, from setting up their dev environment to deployment on the web

Integrate Redux and Firebase with React apps using straightforward, practical patterns

Learn every major part of Firebase 5–the real-time database, storage, rules, listeners and deployment with Firebase tools

Requirements

Some experience with React (i.e. having built a couple of projects with React Create App)

Prior knowledge of ES6 features will help (spread operators, destructuring, object shorthand syntax)

Description

Here’s what we will cover:

Creating a complete Slack chat application with React, Redux, and Firebase 5 from scratch

Sending and receiving messages instantly with the real-time Firebase Database

Uploading and displaying image messages using Firebase Storage

Notifications to display new messages in other channels

Sending Direct Messages to other users in our chat

Tracking / showing when users are online / offline

Searching messages within created channels

Custom animations to see when other users are typing in the same channel

Creating, cropping and uploading user avatars

The ability to favorite / unfavorite public channels

Add emojis to our messages with an Emoji Picker component

User authentication with Firebase

Form validation for our Login and Register forms

State management with Redux, with simple, straightforward patterns

Creating stunning user interfaces with Semantic UI React

Essential features of React Router 4 (Switch component, withRouter HOC, history object)

Tons of work with ES6 / 7

Helpful browser tools such as React / Redux Dev Tools

Securing our application with Firebase Rules

Deploying our chat app to the web using Firebase Tools

Keyboard shortcuts to rapidly send messages

And more!

What will be building in this course?

Throughout this course, we’ll be building a live chat app for developers called DevChat, where users will be able to create channels, to send messages to other users on those channels, send media files, see when other users are typing, add emojis to their messages, favorite and unfavorite channels they like or dislike, and get notifications about new messages on other channels.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who has at least two months of experience with the JavaScript library React

React developers interested in making functional, real-world apps

Developers looking for more experience with the JavaScript language in a practical setting