Git a Web Developer Job: Mastering the Modern Workflow (Udemy.com)

Note: I watched and took notes on this course in August-September 2025. This course takes you from a basic skeletal information html site through to a styled website using the BEM style of writing class names and use of css modules. My suggestion for the best way to use this course is it should NOT BE TAKEN by a PERSON JUST STARTING OUT to learn web design and development. The visual result is good, but the css is only partially updated to current 2025 capabilities. This is a great site to build on your own as a learning exercise if you create the same functionality but do the necessary research to use contemporary packages, css properties, and project setup approaches. One of the reviews done in early 2025 was done by someone who has taken a variety of Brad’s courses - she suggests his 2024 Web Developer’s course, stating it is current and is a better choice. This course would be awesome if it received another major update - the last one was made in late June 2023 according to Brad. Be AWARE of this course's strengths and weaknesses before you choose to invest time and money - it is a reasonably good course as long as you want to learn workflow concepts...I'd suggest trying to build the same site in React as a better learning experience. Caveat: According to QA postings, a lot of the Webpack code versioning and/or actual syntax is no longer current or valid in 2025. Take this course for the right reasons and you'll be happy! The pros: The explanations are clear and thorough - as long as you are familiar with html and vanilla css. The javascript functionality incorporated is good. It is a beautiful site. You gain an appreciation for the use of BEM in keeping classes understandable at a much later point in time, especially if working in a development team. You learn how a site works with several dependencies. It MAY or MAY NOT help you debug older, legacy code projects that use a manually configured webpack setup. The cons: There is a SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM WITH THIS COURSE: IT IS HIGHLY OUTDATED in terms of its setup by focusing on the details of using webpack from scratch. In 2025, webpack has long been put into the background in React. The course has been abandoned by Brad, with the only QA comments coming from students - most recent are principally from 2023 although there are clearly students who have found the course still valuable in 2025 in terms of the concepts presented if not the actual code to achieve it. Since there have been so many negative comments in QA about errors received from trying to work with outdated versions or completely abandoned plugins, I do not have confidence that I could follow his instructions on how to configure webpack from scratch to make a working site. The section on deploying to Netlify is completely out of date in September of 2025.

this is so interesting especially helps to get rid of bootstrap, which is a CSS monster . the instructor was super honest and positive in his delivery

I have taken a lot of courses for development using Udemy...I have watched countless hours of YouTube videos that have opened my mind to new concepts, but never a deep explanation...this course is the deep explanation I needed! I literally feel like a super-human with insane abilities now that I understand work-flow automation. I also learned more about Object Oriented Programming than in full blown courses on OOP and I didn't even take this course for that! Brad is an insanely good instructor...I HIGHLY suggest this course to any developers / designers / & even muggles who do not code, because he will help you find your super powers. Also check out his other course on WordPress Development, it brought me to find this course.

I had a lot of fun working through the lessons. The author has a very pleasant way of communicating the subject. Even later as a reference, the individual lessons are always a help when you get stuck in your daily work and remember: "hey, there was something in Brad's course ...". In particular I would like to thank you for the last lessons, because they were always a good motivation for me. Thank you very much for this particularly successful course! An absolutely recommendable course for every interested web developer. ========================= Es hat mir sehr viel Spaß gemacht die Lektionen durchzuarbeiten. Der Author hat eine wirklich angenehme Art das Thema zu vermitteln. Auch später als Referenz sind die einzelnen Lektionen immer wieder eine Hilfe wenn man bei der täglichen Arbeit stecken bleibt und sich daran erinnert: "hey, da war doch etwas in dem Kurs von Brad ...". Ganz besonders möchte ich mich für die letzten Lektionen bedanken, denn diese waren mir immer wieder eine gute Motivation. Vielen dank für diesen besonders gut gelungenen Kurs! Für jeden interessierten Webentwickler ein absolut empfehlenswerter Kurs.

This course taught me WAY more than I thought I'd learn. A couple sections of the course were frustrating due to methods/applications being out of date (had to constantly read question/answer section to try and solve puzzles). However, the struggle was real and I came out of it a better man. I've actually re-taken this course multiple times because there's so many methods to absorb in making your code cleaner. Thanks Brad, all the best!

Very well thought out course by a well spoken, well prepared, and knowledgeable industry professional who actually knows how to teach really well! Instructor anticipates moments where confusion could arise for students and seems to head them off with clear explanation, theory and timely graphics that support the topics being discussed. Good blend of real-world applicable technique and method. The course is comprehensive. To get the most out of it you'll need to go through it a few times as it is dense and leverages many technologies and tools.

From the start i will tell you that is very hard to follow if you are an absolute beginner. And it doesn't make sense anyway. But the content is awesome. Super structured course. Thank you Brad! P.S. after the end of the course. Because technology is advancing fast, it is very difficult not to encounter small problems with new updates, but it is very important that you first follow in detail the course specifications and check your code at least 3 times before looking for a solution, different from the one presented in the course. Several times during the course it happened that after I searched an adjoining solution, to try once again the solution presented in the course and worked perfectly. Be calm and check your code at least twice!

I thoroughly enjoyed this absolutely outstanding course. It is a must for anyone wanting to improve their approach to front end development. I was completely unaware of the many ways in which the modern professional front-end development workflow differs from what is generally taught in typical courses and online videos. This course quickly and permanently opened my eyes to how and why front-end development should be approached, and dramatically improved may value to prospective working environments as well as to freelance clients. The instructor was extremely clear in explaining every granular detail of how and why the recommended approach is taken. If the instructor someday creates an accompanying back-end course of this quality and usefulness, I will purchase it in a heartbeat! :) I've taken many courses from numerous talented instructors but, in my humble opinion, this one is truly special and very much worth the time and money invested. Thank you, Bradley. Please consider providing more courses like this in the near future! :)

This course has been valuable to me for a number of reasons. 1) As an ever-learning JS developer, I love the concept of creating task automation with it. 2) PostCSS and the BEM philosophy make perfect sense to me, and the syntax of PostCSS makes my mind happy. 3) I finally understand floats and the 'collapsing' they can cause. 4) It feels great to know how to make a website responsive without heavy reliance on libraries like Bootstrap. 5) It's a relief to realize that utilizing NPM packages isn't really that difficult if you can read documentation. 6) I now understand CSS animations a lot better, whereas before they confused me greatly. 7) While I don't agree that jQuery is unmanageable spaghetti, I appreciate what modular ES6 JS brings to the table. Great course Brad. Looking forward to your WordPress content.

Rare find! Don't even look elsewhere. This is it. Quite honestly, this is the first premium Udemy course that I actually followed from beginning to end. I could name 1 or 2 other premium courses that are decently taught but they are not as smooth as this one. I do plan on taking his future courses, even though I'm already at expert level, could always learn something new with this guy. He sure has a way to "glue" everything together for you. Judging by many of the questions I've frequently seen throughout, you should already know your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to get good grasp of the concepts, if not, I strongly advice you first take his beginner course, even if you already have the "know-how". Good luck!

The course was good to comprehend very clear explanation although it's a old course it is useful to learn the basics the way he teach it's pleasant to listen to yes thanks for value knowledge Brad

Very good instructor, learned alot. But it's also outdated, which in turn caused me alot of problems and confusion.