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Introduction to ReactJS

Developed by Microsoft and hosted by edX, this free 3-week course is an essential beginner guide to ReactJS. It is mostly focused on teaching JSX syntax and React Components. A paid verified certificate is offered at the end of the course.

3.0

5 reviews

Created by: Benjamin Lin

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

Basics of JSX syntax
Create React Elements
Build React applications
React Components
Generate lists and forms

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Overall Score : 60 / 100

Course Description

React Awards Best Free Course

ReactJS is the latest JavaScript framework to capture the hearts and attention of the frontend developer community.Developers love ReactJS because it highly performant and renders changes almost instantly. The best part about ReactJS is that it is a relatively small framework and does not take too much time to learn!Starting with the basics of JSX syntax, this course will teach you how to model UI components using React Components. By the end you should be able to manage the state and life cycle of React Components and use them to dynamically generate lists and forms.

Intermediate Level

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- Course is free to audit for those who dont need credits or certifications.
- Assignments and mini projects are invaluable source of information.
- Course provides an optional professional certificate to verify competency in the subject.
- Teaching style limits interaction with other people. Its an incredibly self-reliant course.
- The course certification is an additional charge and pricier than comparable classes.
- Course is surprisingly unpopular, leaving little peer review to gauge its accessibility for diverse students.

Instructor Details

Benjamin Lin

3.0 Rating
5 Reviews

Benjamin Lin is a Content Developer at Microsoft Learning with a focus on JavaScript and full-stack web technologies. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly SLO.

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By Pedro S on 10/05/2019

If you've recently started trying to learn React like me, you've probably seen a ton of these already. What I like about this course is the assignments. Most courses and tutorials will grab you by the hand and stroll you through the process. This one will stroll you to the park, but than you're free to play. The assignments ain't to hard, but I do feel like I've learn something practicing and the feedback is always a major help, even if the code is just reviewed by another student. Weak points: They use Codepen.io to share the assignments. And I love my local setup, kind of wish the used Github too. A 99$ CERTIFICATE FOR AN INTRODUCTION COURSE ARE YOU CRAZY!?

By student on 01/12/2018

There is a lot to learn from this course, especially from the hands on tutorials and mini-project assignments. I'm grateful that Microsoft created and shared this material.

By Qaisar Zaman on 11/01/2017

To enhance my skills through challenging, career oriented course.

By Anonymous on 2 months ago

lectures representation is awful and it does not look up to date to me. lectures representation is awful and it does not look up to date to me.lectures representation is awful and it does not look up to date to me.lectures representation is awful and it does not look up to date to me.lectures representation is awful and it does not look up to date to me.

By Ben T on a year ago

This is just a tutorial. There are more appropriate places for similar tutorials. I don't understand Microsoft's philosophy behind spamming edx with this kind of material. Compared to most other MOOCs this one appears extremely amateurish. Anyway if you're totally new to Javascript frameworks or specifically React then take this one, it will introduce you to the necessary.

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