Front-End Development Capstone Project

Overview

According to internetlivestats.com, there are over 1.58 billion websites of which 200 million are active websites. This number is constantly growing with most businesses leaning towards building their own websites or enhancing them. This requires skilled web developers to get the job done. A key objective of this capstone project is to help you get all your design and coding skills together to implement a responsive website. This will help you gain the confidence and comfort in building websites and better your job prospects. In this six-week capstone project, you will design and develop website component layouts and push it to a GitHub repository. Ready to enhance your professional portfolio with a comprehensive website built using HTML, CSS, and React? This capstone project will help you get closer to that goal! We assume that you have completed all the previous courses in the IBM Front-End Developer Professional Certificate.

Syllabus

Getting Started with the Capstone

In this module, you will start with an overview of different tasks in the Capstone project and understand the business requirements to develop a website through a project scenario. You will then initiate the project’s design phase by creating mockups for website layouts using Figma, including Navigation Bar, Sign Up, Login, Appointment Booking, and Reviews.

Developing Static Website Pages using HTML & CSS

In this module, you will start your journey into developing the website. You will create a repository for your project using forking. You will then clone the repository to the lab environment. After the lab environment is set up, you will create layouts, including the Navigation Bar, Sign-up form, and Login form, and apply styling to static website pages using HTML and CSS. Finally, you will test the static components.

Developing Dynamic React Components - Part I

In this module, you will start working with React to build and manage dynamic components. As a first step, you will set up the React project and establish the required database connectivity, which is required for a few of the website components to function. You will then convert the static pages to dynamic React components and test them. You will also create the first dynamic React component for the project. Finally, you will integrate an existing dynamic React component and customize it based on your color scheme and theme for the website.

Developing Dynamic React Components – Part II

In this module, you will continue developing dynamic React components. You will also test each component to ensure they are working as expected.

Building, Deploying, and Updating the Website

In this module, you will integrate all components and test the website’s functionality. Then, you will deploy the website. After deploying, you will make changes to the website components to add meta tags for SEO in the index.html file for the project and redeploy the website.

Final Project Submission and Peer Review

In the final module, you will need to submit the screenshots from the hands-on labs for peers to review. You will submit GitHub repository links to enable peers to review your code. After you submit your project, you will need to review and grade one of your peer’s submissions.