Professional React Architecture for African Digital Products

Course outline and learning expectations

This is a tutor-led course. The outline shows what your tutor will cover; teaching materials and examinations are provided directly to enrolled students.

What you will learn

• Define frontend architecture aligned with product and organisational needs
• Create domain boundaries and reusable platform packages
• Design and govern monorepos for multiple React applications
• Evaluate SPA, server rendering and server component approaches
• Build resilient data, authentication and offline strategies
• Establish accessible design-system standards and release governance
• Implement production security, observability and performance controls
• Plan incremental migrations from legacy frontend systems
• Lead technical reviews, engineering standards and delivery decisions
• Produce an architecture portfolio for a large African digital product

Modules

1. 1

   Architecture strategy and trade-offs

   Translate product constraints into sustainable frontend decisions

   Quality attributesArchitecture decision recordsDomain boundariesBuild versus buy
2. 2

   Monorepos and platform foundations

   Manage multiple applications and shared packages safely

   Workspace designTurborepo or NxPackage contractsVersioningDeveloper experience
3. 3

   Design-system governance

   Scale reusable interfaces across teams and products

   Design tokensComponent APIsStorybook governanceAccessibility standardsRelease management
4. 4

   Data and rendering architecture

   Choose delivery patterns for performance, SEO and maintainability

   SPA architectureServer renderingReact Server Components conceptsFramework integrationAPI contracts
5. 5

   Performance and observability

   Operate React platforms using measurable user and system signals

   Core Web VitalsReact performance tracksReal-user monitoringTracingIncident diagnostics
6. 6

   Security and operational resilience

   Protect users, data and software supply chains

   Threat modellingAuthentication architectureContent security policyDependency controlsFailure recovery
7. 7

   Migration and delivery strategy

   Modernise large systems while maintaining business continuity

   Strangler migrationsIncremental React adoptionCI/CD governanceFeature flagsRollback planning
8. 8

   Professional architecture capstone

   Design and defend a scalable African digital product platform

   Architecture dossierPrototype packagesRisk registerTechnical roadmapLeadership presentation