Frontend technology classification

What is FE. Web apps, native mobile apps, VR/AR/MR, apps for smartwatch, smartTV etc.

Web functioning principles and key terminology

Network communication essentials. Historical development. Website vs. web app. Types of web apps.

HTML

Fundamental HTML signs, metadata for website machine processing.

JavaScript

Differences from BE. Transpilation tools (e.g. babel) for writing the latest JS for modern browsers.

Frontend libraries and the component approach

Modern libraries for frontend app development (Angular, ReactJS, UU5 etc.). Their characteristics and use. Dividing a presentation into logical blocks (components) and their configuration and reusability.

Communication with a server

Ways of loading data from a BE system, transforming JSON data to a user-readable form.

Response, styling and UX

Basic principles and characteristics of CSS, a responsive web, CSS Frameworks and CSS pre-processors. Response principles and the mobile-first approach. User interface design fundamentals for easy use and control. Ways of control element placement in an app.

User input

Forms and working with them. Validation, dynamic forms, storing data on BE.

Mocking

Advanced techniques of app development above the UU5 library. Preparing a functional design and FE app prototyping without the BE data availability.

Documentation

Ways of keeping the documentation of a FE app. How to describe the user interface of a (FE) app.

Testing

Testability of a FE app. Ways of testing components and an app as a whole.

The user identity

Communication with a server under the user identity. Identity administration in a FE app.