Essentials: Learn to build with Carbon
Five courses over five weeks. Let’s build something.
If you haven’t heard of the Carbon Design System before, check us out! We’re a design system built by IBM, shipping open-source styles and components in Vanilla, React, Angular, and Vue for anyone building on the web.
Design systems do a lot — like reducing repetitive work so you can focus on solving challenging problems. In the spirit of reducing repetition, we’ve set out to develop a course that brings everyone up to speed, and we’re doing it together.
The Carbon team is excited to announce Carbon: Developer Essentials. We’ll be building an app with Carbon React, week by week, providing insight for those new to Carbon and sprinkling in some web development tips along the way.
We designed the course for everybody. At least some familiarity with React, JavaScript ES6/ES2015, and GitHub will be helpful, but as long as you follow along step-by-step, you’ll have a working application built with Carbon by the time we’re done.
Here’s how it’s going to work
One step of the tutorial will be released weekly, beginning on May 28. We will introduce each episode via a YouTube live stream, and the tutorial step will appear on the Carbon site. The weekly outline:
- Installing Carbon. Create a web app with the UI shell component.
- Building pages. Build out pages with the grid and various components.
- Using APIs. Populate the data table with an external data source.
- Creating components. Extend Carbon by creating your own components.
- Deploying to IBM Cloud. Host your app in a production environment.
There’s a lot more to learn, but this covers the basics. We want everybody to feel comfortable with Carbon, and we’re here to get you there.
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We want (need) your feedback
Teaching is a learning experience, and we know this course won’t be perfect. We’re excited to learn with you and make Carbon even better.
If you run into any issues, or have feedback for us, email us at carbon@us.ibm.com or make an issue on GitHub and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
Check out our projects on GitHub! We’re always looking for contributors. If you have any questions or comments about the Carbon Design System, please reach out at carbon@us.ibm.com.
