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Course Review
Here is our in-depth review of React.gg, based on hours of rigorous testing and evaluation.
Updated: December 20, 2023
Highly polished deep dive into React essentials, with lots of hands-on practice and a special emphasis on hooks.
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UI.dev
By Tyler McGinnis, Lynn Fisher, Ben Adam, Alex Brown
React.gg is one of the most ambitious React courses on the market, teaching the essentials of React through a series of in-depth tutorials, knowledge check quizzes, and hands-on challenges. And there’s more content coming, including technical interview preparation.
The hands-on challenges aren't quite thorough enough. Often you’re just moving tweaking one thing to refactor existing code. This approach is helpful for practicing the immediate concept, but it skips some of the benefit you get from spaced repetition of the fundamentals, like writing components from scratch. We really liked that Scrimba often forces you to write components from scratch, even though at times it felt tedious. One risk with React.gg's approach is you might not fully grok the component structure and syntax — you could just breeze through the exercises without actually reading the code and ensuring you’re grasping the concepts. To avoid this, we recommend deleting the boilerplate code in the exercise and solving the challenges completely from scratch.
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.
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