[DAY 54-56] I Learned Bootstrap, jQuery, SASS, and React

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another blog where I document the things I learned in web development. I do this because it helps retain the information and concepts as it is some sort of an active recall.

On days 54-56, after acquiring the DSA certificate from freeCodeCamp, I continued on to the next course which is the Front End Development Libraries.

The course teaches frameworks and libraries of CSS and Javascript. I learned Bootstrap, jQuery, SASS, and React.

Although I did not dive deeper into learning those libraries except React (because I think React is more important), I still learned the general concepts and some basic syntax on how these libraries work.

If you are like me that's a beginner and is also going through freeCodeCamp courses, and you want to learn more about the libraries and frameworks that I mentioned, the course is very short and because of that, you will not learn much about it. If you want to prioritize these libraries, I recommend you to find other tutorials or resources outside freeCodeCamp as it only covers general principles.

However, for React, they have done a good job in teaching what you need to know in this course. It’s a relatively longer course than the other frameworks and libraries mentioned and it goes over the syntax and concepts of JSX elements, DOM manipulation, render methods, class and functional components, and props.

Furthermore, I believe that if you want to know more about React, rather than watching another tutorial or going through another course…

It is much better to use what you learned from the course to build projects and fill in the knowledge gaps that occurred while going through the course. Remember the 80-20 rule, knowing the 20% to build 80% of the project. It is helpful in retention and gives you confidence as a programmer.

Anyways, that’s all for now, more updates in my next blog! See you there!