Architecture and UX of web 3
Learn to design blockchain-powered application architectures
NEAR Certified Developer II
Duration
2 hours
Level
Advanced
Difficulty
Medium
Cost
Free
This course is an opportunity for web developers to earn a Certificate of Completion that represents the ability to ship their application to NEAR MainNet
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.
- Completion of NCD with a verifiable certificate
- Basic JavaScript client and server-side development
- Basic terminal control
- Basic git commands
Working agreement
- We agree to support each other online and offline
- We agree to complete all activities to the best of our ability
- We agree to work on building a demo as soon as possible
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
Some of our alumni
Ondrej Sevcik
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
NEAR Lucky Quote
The project generates lucky learning quote from NEAR wallet id and counts how many times the quote generator has been used.
Github
Andres Macedo
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
NEAR Vehicle Service
The idea of the project was to create a contract that records a vehicles history of owner and service. The goal was to practice how to write and deploy simple contract to testnet using the starter repo.
Github
Michael Bonner
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
Cartoon Voting App
This is the beginning of a voting application that will allow users to vote once for their favorite cartoon and also see at any time how many current votes a cartoon has. Demo Video via Loom:
Github
Giovanni Fu Lin
NEAR Certified Developer
Eduardo Isai Martínez Méndez
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
Companies Phone Directory
We made a phone directory for companies to help the users to find the information of a company in an easy way.
Github
Juan Paul Cruz Cruz
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
HelpAFriend
This is a smart contract on NEAR Protocol blockchain to donate to friend's or public projects, so you can get public projects or friend's projects and with the id you can donate to help them achieve a certain amount of tokens.
Github
Brayan Yosafat Martínez Coronel
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
Companies Phone Directory
We made a company directory in a team of 3, it was the first time we worked with NEAR, it has 3 methods, one for registring a company and just needs the creator, name of the company and phone number. One to show all of them, and one for searching by name. We made the demo on live.
Github
Miguel Angel Islas Hernández
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
Companies phone directory
It's a web application where people can view data of different companies registered in the blockchain and also register their own company
Github
Anton Romankov
NEAR Certified Developer
Project
Donation
The users donate the NEARs, when the goal will be reached, the smart contract will send the tokens to the receiver
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I enjoyed, loved, and learned from this course.
blemater.near
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Instruction is very good, helpful support.
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Excellent course to build the fundamentals. Both Instructors are rally amazing
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Videos and tutorial are so informative.
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I liked a lot, interesting, and funny sometimes, a very good experience of learning.
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This course is a one stop platform to learn everything about Blockchain and Crypto. The beauty of the course is in the simple language used by the trainer to teach a little complex technology.
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Very good foundational information.
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Dedicated instructors
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Gives a very good intro to the various important topics in the world of NEAR Protocol and blockchain.
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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
Who we are
Learners and Teachers
We find joy in making complicated things easier for people to understand and believe in empowerment through continued learning. Our team is made up of technical and non-technical users that love solving problems in creative ways.
Creatives and Creators
Our team is made up of devs and data scientists, artists and adventurers, entrepreneurs and dreamers. We believe that by working together we can provide just about anyone a meaningful learning experience.
Builders and Makers
We love to see our ideas become reality. In addition to our education work, we are also hard at work on our own technical, creative, and nonprofit projects. We know that the whole point of learning is to be able to do stuff.
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”.