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Building Real-time Apps with React, Socket.io, and RethinkDB
This course will teach you how to develop real-time applications using React, Node.js, Socket.io, and RethinkDB in a manner that will make the knowledge transferable to any other real-time stack.
What you'll learn
Think about your favorite apps that you use on a daily basis. Chances are that most, if not all, will have some form of real-time functionality. This also means that you, as a developer, will benefit from learning how to build real-time features for the products that you work on. In this course, Building Real-time Apps with React, Socket.io, and RethinkDB, you'll get a solid introduction to the stack used in the course, but more importantly, the patterns required to build real-time apps. First, you'll acquaint yourself with Socket.io and how to get it connected to a component in React. Next, you'll learn how you can use RethinkDB for data persistence and publish/subscribe. Finally, you'll explore how you can handle failover scenarios when dealing with a real-time stack. When you're finished this course, you'll have a solid understanding of the patterns involved when working on a real-time stack and how to overcome common real-time challenges.
Table of contents
- Is This Course for You? | 1m 26s
- What Will You Be Building? | 1m 22s
- Course Outline | 2m 26s
- An Overview of Real-time Architecture | 2m
- Why This Stack and Not Firebase? | 2m 2s
- An Overview of the Different Parts in This Stack | 4m 6s
- Versions Used in This Course | 2m 32s
- Getting the Code on Your Machine | 2m 8s
- Spinning up a Socket on the Server | 4m 49s
- Consuming a Socket in React | 4m 36s
- Summary | 1m 28s
About the author
In his day job Hendrik is a full stack coder from Cape Town. For a large part of his career he worked with .NET, but the last few years he spent most of his time with JavaScript.