Proficient Tool Use

Explore how to proficiently use foundational tools for full stack web development. Learn essential command line skills, choosing editors, managing packages, using Git for version control, and leveraging browser developer tools to streamline your development workflow.

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Tools used during the course.
Choose an editor
Know your package manager
Use Git
JavaScript tools
In-browser tools

Tools used during the course.

Graphical user interfaces are great for many things, but many system management tasks, especially if they involve automation, still require the command line.

In Linux and macOS, this will be called the Terminal.
In Windows, the built-in terminal is called the Command Terminal, or we can also use Power Shell.

The main things we need to know are:

How to move around in the directories
How to manage the environment variables
How to run commands in the background
How to see what is running
How to kill processes we no longer want to be running

1.Introduction

2.Basic Client Pages with React

3.Dynamic Client-Side Pages with React

4.Server-Side API Creation with Flask

5.Database Definition and Creation with SQLAlchemy

6.Code Documentation with Sphinx

7.An Introduction to Code Testing

8.UI Testing

9.API Testing

10.Database Integrity Testing

11.Automatically Testing Every Update

12.Design a Web Application

13.Build the Data Model

14.Build the REST API

15.Build the React Client

16.Finishing Touches for the App

17.Web Authentication

18.Deploy the Application

Project

19.Conclusion

20.Appendix

Proficient Tool Use

Tools used during the course.

Choose an editor