React For The Rest Of Us (Udemy.com)

Two many times I was stopped and stumped by outdated code that no longer worked, requiring a ton of chats back and forth with AI assistants like Copilot. Part of it was my doing. You used Webpack and I, due to job requirements, used Parcel, but still, at least preface such version affected courses with deprecated code advisories. It's good in a way for new learners to be forced at times to figure out on their own how to rectify code that no longer works. There will be times during software updates when that's necessary in real world and helps one learn the hard way. BUT, in an expensive paid course platform where you're learning on the boss's dime, that's a lot of unplanned study time.

I like the way Brad is teaching. I enrolled around 7 courses from him and i'm done with Laravel, HTML + CSS, WordPress development and this is my 4th course. His teaching way is brilliant how he is showing first a basic approach and right after that in the next video a better way of doing it, so you don't get lost. He is starting from baby steps to next level steps. Thank you Brad for the opportunity to learn from you. Keep up like this and share new courses with us, i'll gladly buy everything from you just to support you!

I really liked the course. The instructor has a nice way of teaching, understanding the "why" of doing something is how I like to learn and he give us that. I did run into one issue for something that has been updated since the course was made, but it wasn't hard to find a solution. In fact, I was able to find it right in the Q&A section, but it was the only issue, everything else has been updated and work fine. I've learnt a lot and I do recommend this course. Thank you.

The courses dives right into the project and the instructor does a great job explaining what is happening without needlessly going about extra explanations making things more confusing that it needs to be. If you want to just dive in a learn React and get a good grasp of how it works, this is a great course. Only thing missing that I would wish is an accompanying tutorial on the back-end of this project as well just to round out the entire project learning experience.

I am an IT Architect that believes it is essential to understand, at a coding level, the underlying technologies used to deliver components of an architecture. Because of this, I take a fair amount of Udemy courses. Of all the courses I have taken, this was the best! The approach, of starting with a complete and complex application, then walking the student through the steps required to build it using React, was amazing. An equal focus on both how to do something and why you’d do it that way really helped you understand React. Although I have only taken this single course in React, I am confident and looking forward to applying my new skill. I don’t usually feel this confident in my understanding of a technology after a single online course. Great Job Brad

Brad is a really good teacher and the project you work on through the course gives you basically everything you need to make an app similar to Facebook/Twitter. Initially I was disappointed that there wasn't as much focus on the backend, but after spending some time making my own backend with node I realized that would basically be an entirely different course. There was one chapter where Brad gave students the option to do a challenge/extra credit sort of thing before moving to the next one (where he would go over it); I feel as though I learned a lot when he did this and wish he did it more throughout the course. Following along is good and all but challenging yourself with what you've learned is, in my opinion, the best way to learn. Thank you for your course. I love your humor, made it more fun to learn

This is not my first React online course but it's definitely the best one. It covers everything you need to know to start working with React and it's focused on React Hooks and functional components not on class components which in my opinion is much clearer approach than managing state in class component with Redux for example. The only reason I'm giving 4.5 stars not 5 is because, the project we worked on could be set up with react create instead of with manual Webpack configuration. That's what I've done and it worked perfectly, without any single issue during deployment process. But that is obviously how I prefer, otherwise it's 5/5.

Brad is a great teacher, without any doubt. I follow him on the YouTube for a long time. This is great course but as a React-rookie I have struggled a lot to finish it - with a thousand questions - why, how, where, from and so on. Not every part is explained well, in my opinion - therefore 4 and 1/2 stars from me. Update: I have to change my first impression from 4,5 to 5. After trying another react-courses I came to conclusion - this is clearly the best one.

My team and I did setup a production project based on this course, its sibling "GIT a webdev job" and everything went fine. Howerver we got an external consultancy to appraise our progress and they said, they have never seen anyone configuring webpack on their own without create-react-app. They claim it is an absolute industry standard andit should be used and ejecting should be avoided. Another comment we got, was that a complex app like ours (and it does not seem overly complex to me) should not go without Redux. We did follow Brad by using useImmer The necessary refactoring is a step that can not be avoided when starting with an inexperienced team, so no harm done, I just wanted to share this experience. I know from the q&a that Brad insists he wants to teach people what is happening behind the scenes and I do agree. It feels good to know, how things are working "behind the scenes" However I think he should also have explained the cra option and if it is such a standard, one should stick to this. Also using cra is a great way to set up simple projects to play around with. As I still liked the course, and nowadays anything below 4 stars is regarded as a failure, I will stick with the original assesment (5 Stars), but I wanted to share my experience

It was a very good Learning experience. It is very informative and easy learning path. Coming from Angular background I felt it would be better if there is some use case that best fits react. I feel most of the features in this sample application can also achieved with Angular. It would be great if we have the comparison of a use case or feature in which react excels and almost usage of react is necessary. This may help us to decide on which technology we need to prefer in a specific use case