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Here is our in-depth review of React 18 Path, based on hours of rigorous testing and evaluation.
Updated: September 6, 2023
A solid choice for screencast training by expert authors, but you should supplement with independent practice and projects.
Fast Facts
Pluralsight
By Various
This series of video courses covers everything from the basics to advanced React features. The courses are concise and scoped well to cover the core topics without too much overlap.
Pluralsight's authors are the main draw here, as experts Cory House and others guide you through real-world React usage.
Pluralsight's React path includes an adaptive assessment that will measure your proficiency with the library. The assessment can give you a good idea for how your React knowledge stacks up against other Pluralsight users and areas to target for additional study.
The first 6-8 hours of this 30+ hour path are all you'll need to become conversational in the key React concepts, but you'll need additional practice with hands-on projects to make the leap from watching to building.
Pluralsight doesn't have a great community solution, and support through the forums is extremely limited. If learning alongside others is important to you, then you should go with another solution or supplement with a React Discord community.
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.
Frontend Masters
By Brian Holt
This 6 hour workshop teaches 85% of the real-world React footprint. A great option for seasoned JavaScript developers.
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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