From the course: Generative AI for Web Developers: AI-Powered Pair Programming for Full-Stack Development

Generative AI for web developers: Introduction

From the course: Generative AI for Web Developers: AI-Powered Pair Programming for Full-Stack Development

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Generative AI for web developers: Introduction

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- Welcome to generative AI for web developers. I'm Shaun Wassell, and I've been a professional full stack developer for over a decade now. In recent years, I've seen the transformative impact of generative AI on the web development field, and I'm really excited to guide you through this and see some of the ways that this can be used in this course. So in this course, as I said, we're going to be bridging the gap between traditional web development practices on one side and the innovative potential of generative AI tools on the other. So we're going to kind of be seeing how to harness generative AI tools to do things like automate basic web development tasks. We're going to see how we can use it to help us build websites, both on the front end and the back end, and we're also going to be seeing how we can use these tools to help us with basic database tasks. So doing things like writing queries, as you'll see. So as far as the basic structure of this course, I've divided the course into four main sections, each focusing on different aspects of web development and how generative AI can help us. So we start off by just taking a basic look at these different tools. We're going to be taking a look at ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and also GitHub Copilot. And in the first section, we're just going to be setting these tools up and getting comfortable with using them so that we can jump in and start actually writing code with them in the following sections. After that, we'll dive into the front end where we'll see how we can use generative AI tools to help us both design interfaces, visually, which will be pretty cool, and we'll also see how it can take actual drawings, right, actual renderings of user interfaces, and create those interfaces in code for us. This will also include seeing how generative AI can be used to transform or translate one framework or library, such as React into another, such as Angular or Vue. And we'll also cover things like how we can use generative AI to write tests for the front end and generate text and image content. After that, we move on to the backend where we'll see how we can use generative AI to create basic servers and REST APIs, as well as generate simple test data for us and do things like identify backend security vulnerabilities. And finally, in the last section we'll see how generative AI can be incorporated into database development. We'll see how it can be used to do things like assist us with queries as well as help us optimize our databases. And, well, that's the basic plan of the course. So thank you so much for joining me, and I hope you enjoy learning how to leverage generative AI in web development.

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