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The course creator Karl Hadwen

with Karl Hadwen

Course level: Advanced

Learn how to build an Instagram clone in this bumper course spread across 93 screencasts. Boost your portfolio with a huge project using React, Firebase, and Tailwind.

What's inside

This course contains 93 interactive screencasts spread across 11 modules.

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Welcome and Overview

4 lessons - 18 min

1. Welcome to Building Instagram
4:50
2. Technologies Overview
3:30
3. Structure & Dependencies
5:14
4. Tailwind CSS Overview
5:06
Firebase setup

8 lessons - 35 min

1. Firebase Overview
7:54
2. Firebase Firestore Setup
7:13
3. Firebase Firestore Updated Rules
1:09
4. Firebase Authentication Setup
2:31
5. Firebase Application Integration
3:24
6. Firebase FieldValue Setup
2:37
7. Firebase Context
4:03
8. Hydrating Our Firestore with Data
6:41
Pages, lazy/suspense & one source of truth

5 lessons - 20 min

1. Page Routes - One Source of Truth
3:17
2. Importing Our Pages Using lazy & Suspense
8:36
3. Creating our Pages
2:22
4. Implementing Suspense
3:20
5. React Router Setup
3:07
Login page component

9 lessons - 37 min

1. Challenge - Creating the Login Form
3:47
2. Creating the Login Form
12:04
3. Challenge - Login Page Title
0:30
4. Login Page Title
1:11
5. Challenge - Handling Login State & Validation
2:30
6. Handling Login State & Validation
6:02
7. Firebase Auth Connection For Login Brainstorm
4:58
8. Firebase Auth Connection For Login
4:51
9. Navigate a Successful Login to the Dashboard
1:28
Sign-up Page, Dashboard, & Not Found Components

12 lessons - 1 hour

1. Challenge - Creating the Sign Up Form
1:39
2. Creating the Sign Up Form
6:24
3. Challenge - Handling Sign Up State & Validation
5:45
4. Sign Up Page Title
1:15
5. Handling Sign Up State & Validation
2:22
6. Sign Up Form Validation
2:07
7. Challenge - Firebase Auth Connection For Sign Up
5:22
8. Firebase Auth Connection For Sign Up
6:45
9. Username Sign Up Validation
11:15
10. Navigate a Successful Sign Up to the Dashboard
2:01
11. Creating the Dashboard Page
8:53
12. Creating a Not Found Page
7:12
Header component

14 lessons - 59 min

1. Challenge - Building out the Header Component
2:25
2. Building out the Header Component
5:32
3. Challenge - Further development on the Header Component
6:03
4. Further development on the Header Component
11:54
5. Creating a UserContext
1:55
6. Challenge - Smart looking SVGs for the Header Component
3:26
7. Smart looking SVGs for the Header Component
2:21
8. Implementing UserContext
1:43
9. Creating a custom useAuthListener hook to get the logged in user
6:43
10. Challenge - Getting user authentication state
3:18
11. Creating a custom useUser hook
4:48
12. Challenge - Creating a getUserByUserId function for our useUser hook
3:19
13. Challenge - Implement our useUser hook
4:06
14. Reviewing the Header component
1:42
Timeline component

6 lessons - 34 min

1. Challenge - Building the Timeline component (Starting with React Skeleton)
2:51
2. Challenge - Create a useFollowedUsersPhotos custom hook
5:29
3. Challenge - Implementing the getUserFollowPhotos service function
3:30
4. useFollowedUsersPhotos signature implementation Challenge
7:37
5. Challenge - Adding more user information to getUserFollowedPhotos
5:54
6. Pulling more information from the photos based on the userId
8:38
Post Component

11 lessons - 1 hour

1. Creating the Post component
3:37
2. Creating the main Post container
7:16
3. Creating the Post image component
4:09
4. Creating the Post footer component
2:13
5. Creating the Post actions component
10:56
6. Processing user likes on photos
11:23
7. Creating the Post header component
8:48
8. Creating the Post comments component
11:00
9. Formatting our Post Comment date
3:18
10. Creating the AddComment component
10:32
11. Creating our AddComment component Form
12:12
Sidebar Component

9 lessons - 1 hour

1. Sidebar recap & adding a user component
7:48
2. Styling the sidebar User component
2:58
3. Adding memo to stop unnecessary re-renders of a User profile
4:44
4. Creating the Suggested Profiles component
10:31
5. Creating the Suggested Profile component
15:39
6. Styling the Suggested Profiles container
4:35
7. Get Suggested Profiles from the Firebase Service
10:11
8. Optimising our Suggested Profiles Query
3:19
9. Creating the Follow User Logic
8:34
Profile Page Component

11 lessons - 1 hour

1. Setting up the Profile components
11:39
2. getUserByUsername Logic
5:11
3. Working with useReducer to build a stateful Profile page
7:41
4. Setting our state values (profile, photos, followers) using useReducer
10:03
5. Rendering out a User's Profile photos
19:37
6. Building the Profile Header
11:42
7. Profile Header Meta Information
11:19
8. Displaying the User's Profile Full Name
1:52
9. Implementing the Follow Count on a User's Profile
9:08
10. Toggle a Follow Logic
8:22
11. Is User Following the Active Profile Logic
18:15
Authentication & Conclusion

4 lessons - 37 min

1. IsUserLoggedIn Routes
10:31
2. Protected Routes
9:56
3. Refactors
6:17
4. Course Conclusion
10:20

You'll learn

Advanced React

Firebase

Tailwind CSS

One source of truth

React Router

Plain JS Redux

Handling login state

Validation

Creating a dashboard

Creating a not found page

Building a header

Smart-looking SVGs

Hooks

Building a timeline

Building a post

Styling a sidebar

Building a stateful profile page

And a lot more!

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Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. If you're not there yet, check out these free courses:

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Meet your teacher

The course creator

Karl Hadwen

Im a JavaScript and React developer with over ten years of experience creating highly functional and scalable e-commerce websites. I also run a YouTube channel focused on React, JavaScript, and GraphQL. Follow me on Twitter: @karlhadwen

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Why this course rocks

If you have nailed the basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React and feel ready to take on a massive, real-world-style project, Karl Hadwen’s Build an Instagram Clone course is perfect for you!

Karl takes you through this project in a series of 11 challenge-based modules. You’ll learn to use React, Firebase, and Tailwind, and finish up with fully-functioning, pro-looking Instagram clone at the end of the course.

This course will take full advantage of Scrimba's interactive code-learning experience. As soon as you've learned a new concept, you'll jump into the code and solve a challenge to make sure that the knowledge sticks.
During the course, you’ll learn how to create a login page, a sign-up page, a header, a timeline, a profile page, a dashboard page, a post, a sidebar, a not found page, and much more!

By learning React, you'll drastically increase your chances of getting a job as a front-end developer, as the current demand for React developers by far outstrips the supply. So enroll now if you're ready to give your career a boost!

So get ready to take on your next web dev challenge, and tackle the Instagram Clone course today!

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