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Course Review
Here is our in-depth review of Complete Guide to React, v8, based on hours of rigorous testing and evaluation.
Updated: September 6, 2023
This 6 hour workshop teaches 85% of the real-world React footprint. A great option for seasoned JavaScript developers.
Fast Facts
Frontend Masters
By Brian Holt
Taught by one of the world's leading React experts, this workshop is one of the best starting points for learning React the way it’s actually used in top organizations like Reddit, Netflix, and Stripe.
Beyond a tutorial on components, state, and hooks, this teaches you how real world developers utlilize React - and what features you shouldn't bother with. In this course, you'll join Brian to code through the development of a pet adoption site. While not the deepest dive into React's core concepts, it’s enough to get you started with some meaty React projects or to learn advanced topics.
Frontend Masters has a complete React Path with an additional 15 hours of core React content and electives. If you're serious about working with React professionally, we recommend subscribing and taking the full path - at least the core content.
While the course is chock-full of insights, occasionally within a particular section, Holt answers a question, says something super insightful, or covers a secondary concept. As a result, unless you’re taking copious notes, it can be difficult to go back to these specific points when you want to review.
As a subscriber, you have access to a Discord server where Frontend Masters staff and instructors hang out and answer questions. It's one of the more valuable learning communities out there.
We recommend supplementing this course with an independent project, in order to be ready to use React in a professional setting.
Scrimba
By Bob Ziroll
The best overall combination of topic coverage, learning experience, instructor quality, and delivery of outcomes. And you can take it for FREE, though we recommend subscribing to get the full benefits.
Fullstack Open
By Various Authors
An impressive free, text-based course developed in partnership with tech companies, that offers feedback on coding exercises. Part of a larger full-stack curriculum, so a great option for novice coders.
UI.dev
By Tyler McGinnis, Lynn Fisher, Ben Adam, Alex Brown
Highly polished deep dive into React essentials, with lots of hands-on practice and a special emphasis on hooks.
Our course reviews are conducted by a team of technical professionals, course developers, and lifelong learners.
The lead of this project, Brian Green, has worked in developer education since 2009. He built the content development teams at Pluralsight and Udacity, implementing quality standards and tutorials to improve course quality and working with hundreds of authors to create courseware. Most recently, he built the product team at App Academy. As of writing, he estimates he has spent nearly a year of his life taking or reviewing online courses, on topics ranging from Web Development, Networking, Server Administration, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
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