Building an immersive creative website from scratch without frameworks

On August 23, 2021

Release date:2021

Author:Luis Henrique Bizarro

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

There are countless advantages to creating websites from scratch without using JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular. Especially when you want to create something unique that has never been done before on any other website. Writing code from scratch can be pleasant, easier and speed up your entire workflow by focusing on what really matters in an immersive web experience: animations, interactivity, and performance – and not in learning how to be productive within certain rules of a framework.
In this course, you’ll learn how to set up your own boilerplate from scratch with all the technologies, tools, and libraries you need to get up to speed. We’ll teach you the right approach to using plain JavaScript in a website: we’ll cover Fetch API and History API, then integrate it with ECMAScript 2015+ classes that will use Promises to animate in and animate out your views in a seamless way.

We’ll also learn how to construct reusable component classes that can speed up your development process. Finally, we’ll learn how to integrate the plain JavaScript setup with animation-focused libraries such as GSAP, OGL, and Three.js, making your website stand out from all the rest.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create a top-notch website, learn some Front End technologies and tools such as Pug (Template Engine), SASS/SCSS + PostCSS (CSS Preprocessor), Babel (ECMAScript 2015+ JavaScript compiler), and Webpack (Assets Bundler) and finally learn how to integrate everything with industry-standard libraries like GSAP, OGL and Three.js to enhance your website even more.

This course is for all professional levels. Both beginners, as well as intermediate students, will be able to follow using the step-by-step approach.

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01 Introduction to our project Floema by Luca Franceschetti
02 Why should you learn how to implement websites from scratch
03 The advantages of using plain JavaScript without frameworks
04 Introduction to build npm and Webpack
05 Introduction to architecture Express Prismic and SEO
06 Introduction to tools Pug SCSS and Babel ES6
07 Introduction to libraries GSAP Lodash and OGL
08 Installing Node js NPM
09 Installing VS Code and Plugins
10 Why you should create your own boilerplate
11 Setting up your project build structure using Webpack
12 How to make your folders and files organized
13 Structuring the views of your project using Express Pug
14 Integrating Prismic with your project
15 Implementation of semantic HTML with Pug Prismic and Express
16 Including the stylization of your project using SCSS BEM PostCSS
17 Tips and Tricks of exporting assets from XD and using Pixel Perfect to implement CSS in your project
18 Implementing responsive styles using SCSS
19 Setting up the JavaScript architecture of your application
20 Structuring your application components and implementing preloading transitions
21 Implementation of smooth scrolling and animation library GSAP
22 Using IntersectionObserver to animate in elements in your application
23 Polishing up transitions in the application and wrapping up HTML CSS and JavaScript implementation
24 Fixing History API and implement UA Parser for mobile tablet desktop checks
25 Introduction to WebGL and industry standard libraries
26 Implementation of initial WebGL structure with OGL
27 Implementing a draggable view with WebGL
28 Transforming draggable view in infinite
29 Implementing WebGL page transitions and an infinite slider
30 Including slightly rotation in our WebGL infinite slider
31 Integration of WebGL slider with DOM elements active deactive states
32 Performance improvements by preloading all textures to GPU
33 Implementing vertex distortion using GLSL code
34 Seamless WebGL transitions between pages using fake elements
35 Updating Collections page interactions
36 Introduction to Digital Ocean
37 Setting up Digital Ocean droplet