MERN Stack Front To Back: Full Stack React, Redux & Node.js (Udemy.com)

The course is really great and great project and the backend part is still relevant. However the major problem I faced is with the frontend and especially with Redux as the versions taught in the course are pretty much outdated. However with extra support from Chatgpt, i was able to update my code to the latest technologies. Here is the latest project as of Jan 2026: https://github.com/Krishnak101/JavaScript-Projects/tree/main/React-Projects/DevIdentity

Thank you Brad very much for such a good and useful course! It took a long time for me to finish it as I was not learning continually which was a mistake. But now I'm done and I’m very satisfied. I’ve got almost everything that I need to create a full stack Apps. At the same time I’ve realised that MongoDb maybe is not the best solution. So the next milestone (after several apps with MongoDB) would be PostgreSQL. Wish you the best and more cool courses! ps: recommed this course to everybody to learn full stack with MERN

one of most favorite teachers in udemy!! his class is somewhat hard to understand for fully beginners and i understand about some complaints. However, im pretty sure he gives clear steps for beginners to move on intermediate. Will's fast feed back saved me every time i face trouble and help me to move on to finish this course. i am moving on to nextjs course. (although i will need to comeback to review) thank you so much Will and Brad !!

I've come to realize that I need a lot more practice in JavaScript before attempting another course like this. There were numerous errors (mostly typos caused by me) that hindered most of my project development. The first course (before he redid the course) had some errors that drove me absolutely mad, but overall this course did exactly what it said it would.

My code always seems to work and flow more smoothly compared to other teachers courses on Udemy when taught by Brad. He uses my go-to tools and frameworks as well. This is my favorite Udemy course I have ever taken. It's extremely helpful to use this project as a template towards creating other ones. This course saved me at my job most importantly. Thank you Brad!

These are similar to his youtube videos. I was expecting more of a course with the paid aspect. His free content on youtube is basically just him reading the documents from the library he is talking about. The videos skip around a lot. He clearly just copied and pasted a working example. In the timeline of the video he will write a component before it is needed because it is already in his working example.

Very nice course, I finished it the 2nd time and it is much better, although I think the hooks part is a bit abstract, maybe custom hooks would make this project at a bit higher level, but aside from that its awesome, thanks for your hard work brad.

The course does well to cover basics of the MERN stack including Express API development with Mongoose modeling for MongoDB along with frontend development with React and even React Hooks. Note that there are some issues with the app's architecture that are resolved in changes made to the GitHub repo. Unfortunately, some of these changes have not yet been incorporated into the videos.

First of all, the course is created for the real world web application that you we can use in our own project in the future. Brad is just awesome explaining in depth at every detail not so fast and not so slow. Now June 2018 this course is up to date and easy to follow along. If you want this kind of real life web application just GO FOR THIS COURSE !!! Highly Recommend. Second, Brad has his own youtube channel for loads of tutorials you can find for web development. But still this course is a good start for MERN Stack developers.

This course is exceptionally well put together. Brad is fantastic at this job and always provides the right level of detail. Yes I know it is a MERN stack course (includes node), however the only reason I did not give the course 5 stars, is that although everything is really great, I think the time it takes to set up the server.js and the routing could be made optional (maybe it is optional and I missed it), possibly an already set up server with routes so that you could take an already developed server and quickly get on to the React stuff and do the server later on before the Heroku deploy. All in all a fantastic job, many thanks Brad.