Spend your time writing your business logic, not boilerplate code.

Learn how to build end-to-end strongly-typed React apps that enable you to focus less on writing fragile, single purpose data fetching code and more on functionality that your users care about.

Building a frontend React application is complex. You have to not only control how your various UI elements will appear on a page, but you need to make sure that it will look great across a variety of different screen types and you also need to manage fetching the wide variety of data needed to feed all these individual components. You also need to manage user login, SEO optimization, and on top of all that deploy your site in a way so that it will effortlessly scale when your site gets featured on Ellen.

Luckily, there have been some amazing tools and services that has been developed over the past few years that will allow you to abstract away much of this fragile code writing process. In this course, I will show you how to rely on battle-tested libraries and set up code that will update automatically as your project grows and evolves.

What people are saying about the Next Chop

Svitlana Shepitsena, Web Developer

These tutorials are a great piece of art- really nice to watch and easy to follow. I learned a ton of useful stuff including how to set up Next.js projects and how to use layouts, global styles and themes with Styled Components. It’s a perfect course- thank you! shepitsena

Meet Stephen

Hi I’m Stephen! I wrote this tutorial because it is the one that I wish that I had when I was building my first React Application.

Benefits

Strong Typing with GraphQL

Learn how to use GraphQL to specify how your data is related to each other in an expressive manner without code.

Expressive Data Fetching with Apollo Hooks

Use Apollo Hooks on your client for manage all of your data fetching and for storing and aggregating all of your data.

Set it and Forget it Serverless Backend

Graphical CMS as a backend for storing data and images.

Effortless Production Grade Frontend Deployment with Code Pipeline

Forget about managing infrastructure with automated serverless frontend deployment to staging and production environments.

Effortless Auth with Auth0

Tried and tested user signup, login, and access rules with Auth0.

SEO Optimized from the Ground Up

Dynamic server side rendered pages that are optimized for SEO with Next.js

Eliminate type errors with Typescript

Code with confidence- static typing immediately verifies that variables, functions, and properties are used as they should be.

Generate Schema Code Automatically

Use GraphQL Code Generation to build all your data types with one command.

What we are building

We will learn all of these best practices by creating a Recipe Sharing application called Next Chop.

Recipe List

Recipe Detail List

OAuth User Login / Signup

New Recipe Page with Image Upload

My Recipes Page for user generated recipes

Users can only update and delete their own recipes

Like your Favorite Recipes

View all of your Liked Recipes

In this Course you will learn to:

Create the Next.js typescript base
Add Styled Components and Ant Design
Create the Layout, Header and Footer Templates
Add Apollo GraphQL and GraphCMS Backend 🚀
Add GraphQLCodeGen for strongly typeset models
Create Recipes List 🍛 🥘 🍝
Create Custom Alerts ⛔
Auth0 and React Hooks for user state management 🙋‍♀️
Add User Like Button 👍
Create My Recipes and Favorites Page ❤️
Add a Create and Update Recipes Page
Add a Delete Recipe Button with confirmation modal
Secure the backend with a GraphQL Proxy 🙅🏾
Automated serverless deployment with Zeit Now 🤖

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