Architecture and UX of web 3
Learn to design blockchain-powered application architectures
NEAR Certified Developer II
Duration
2 hours
Level
Intermediate
Difficulty
Medium
This course is an opportunity for web developers to earn a Certificate of Completion that represents the ability to design, develop, test and deploy full stack applications on the NEAR platform.
Course overview
What you'll learn
During this course we will practice:
- recognizing best practices of web 3 application development
- defining the architecture of a web 3 application
- developing upgradable contracts for web 3 applications
- developing user-friendly frontends for web 3 applications
- full lifecycle testing for web 3 applications
Prerequisites
Please make sure you are familiar with a few of these basics before the week starts. Although you do not need to be an expert in these technologies, you should have no problem cloning a NodeJS project, downloading its dependencies and running a few scripts.
- Intermediate JavaScript client and server-side development
- Intermediate terminal control
- Intermediate git commands
Working agreement
- We agree to work in small groups of 3-5 people
- We agree to complete all activities to the best of our ability
- We agree to work on building a demo by the end of the day
Building dApps for web 3
Learn to design and develop web-based frontends for web 3 applications
Projects – Part I
Learn to deploy your contracts to TestNet
Projects – Part II
Learn to deploy your contracts to TestNet
Demo Project
Demonstrate your group project in 5-10 minutes
Benefits of this course
Access to fellowship programs
After the course, you can join the NEAR EDU Fellowship program as a Developer in Residence
Access to grants and funding
You can apply for a grant to build out your demo project
Business opportunities
You can start your own business and get funded as part of the Open Web Consortium
Career opportunities
You can find a job in the NEAR Ecosystem
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See what students are saying
A great journey indeed! Completed the course in 2 days and now will be exploring how I can apply this to build my own application.
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NEAR Certified Developer
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Amazing course that kept me interested throughout. I would highly recommend taking it!
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does this cost?
Nothing, the course is absolutely free. The only thing you pay is your attention
Do I need to be a software developer to take this course?
Yes, and it won’t be easy – we’ll be moving quickly, no joke
I have zero time for all this. Can I just binge on some deep work on my own?
Hell yes! Contact us to discuss your future project
Do you care if I cheat?
No, in fact cheating is encouraged. Let’s get one thing straight: if you’re serious about learning, the fastest way from here to there is to meet people, ask questions, look at some answers, look at even more answers, copy some examples, break things and finally, if you’re lucky, learn something new.
As long as you’re honest about what you’re doing, you’re always welcome here.
Just don’t take credit for others people’s work because that’s lame
Do I need a Mac?
MacOS and Linux will be the easiest operating systems to use.
Windows may prove challenging but if you’re ok with that, please join us. You should install WSL before we meet since we’ll be using NodeJS applications like NEAR CLI
How do I know if I’m winning?
There’s no such thing as winning here because we’re all lost. Welcome, friend
When moon?!
Please don’t
Let's build the Open Web!
NEAR is secure enough to manage high value assets like money, assets and identity while being performant and affordable enough to make things useful for everyday people.
Technically speaking, NEAR is a layer 1 smart contract platform (like Ethereum but cheaper and faster) that scales by parallelizing storage and compute using a technique called “sharding”.