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React - The Complete Guide (incl. Next.js, Redux) (Udemy.com)

Dive in and learn React.js from scratch! Learn React, Hooks, Redux, React Router, Next.js, Best Practices and way more!

Created by: Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Last updated January 2026

Our take

Based on the ratings of 242,065 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in January 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.

Max Schwarzmüller's React course has just over a million students enrolled and runs 71 hours across 727 lectures. It starts with a JavaScript refresher, then works through components, state, hooks, forms, HTTP requests, Redux and React Router, with a fullstack Next.js app listed in the learning goals. It suits people who already know JavaScript and want one long, careful course rather than a quick tour. There is also a four hour summary path for anyone who is short on time.

Reviewers rate the teaching highly. They say the instructor explains every small detail, flags version differences, and repeats concepts until they stick. About 93 percent of the 242,000 ratings are four or five stars. The complaints cluster in the second half. Two reviewers say the coding exercises thin out after the early sections, and one working professional calls the later lectures repetitive, stretched out and slow even at 2x speed. One reviewer found some lab instructions confusing, and another hit a setup problem with better-sqlite3 that needed extra packages.

The course was refreshed in January 2026, so the content is current. Next to Modern React with Redux and The Ultimate React Course on our React page, this one trades speed for depth, and that cuts both ways. Pick it if you want depth and do not mind a slow pace. Pick a shorter course if you learn fastest by building projects unguided. One student who stuck with it says the effort pays off, even if it took repeat viewings.

Best forJavaScript developers who want every React concept explained slowly and twice, with quizzes and coding exercises along the way.
Skip it ifYou learn fastest by building on your own and would find 71 hours of follow-along lectures a slog.

Pros

  • Explanations are thorough; reviewers say the instructor flags version differences and leaves little ambiguity.
  • 45 quizzes and 37 coding exercises, plus practice projects like a quiz app and a food ordering app.
  • Updated January 2026 for React 19, with a four hour summary path for people in a hurry.
  • Opens with a JavaScript refresher, so rusty ES6 skills are not a blocker.

Cons

  • Exercises thin out in the second half and one reviewer calls the later lectures repetitive.
  • At 71 hours it is slow going; one professional said it felt stretched even at 2x speed.
  • Some lab instructions are confusing, and one setup step (better-sqlite3) needed extra packages to work.
Quite thorough and detailed explanation of everything. Instructor takes care of every simple detail and leaves no ambiguity or confusions in mind.
Syed Muneeb Ur Rehman Bukhari, a student

Listed as all levels, but it assumes solid HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No React or other framework experience is needed.

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What you will learn

  • Learn React from the ground up and finish the course as an advanced React developer
  • Build multiple high-quality demo apps, including a fullstack app built with NextJS
  • Join more than 900,000 students in this course & more than 3,000,000 students I taught across all my courses
  • Build fullstack React apps with NextJS 14+
  • Follow along locally or in a cloud development environment
  • Learn all about React Hooks and React Components
  • Manage complex state efficiently with React's Context API & React Redux
  • Build standalone React apps & applications connected to a backend via HTTP
  • Learn about routing & route-related data fetching with React Router
  • Implement user authentication in React apps
  • Get started with React Unit Testing

Course content

22 sections · 727 lectures · 71 hours of video 45 quizzes, 37 coding exercises, 2 assignments, 49 articles

  1. 1Getting Started 9 free previews10 lectures · 41 min
  2. 2JavaScript Refresher23 lectures · 2 quizzes · 1.7 hours
  3. 3React Essentials - Components, JSX, Props, State & More26 lectures · 15 quizzes · 2.5 hours
  4. 4React Essentials - Deep Dive38 lectures · 4 quizzes · 3.3 hours
  5. 5React Essentials - Practice Project8 lectures · 54 min
  6. 6Styling React Components20 lectures · 3 quizzes · 1.9 hours
  7. 7Debugging React Apps6 lectures · 1 quiz · 29 min
  8. 8Working with Refs & Portals17 lectures · 5 quizzes · 1.4 hours
  9. 9Practice Project: Project Management App (with Components, State, Refs & More)16 lectures · 2.1 hours
  10. 10React's Context API & useReducer - Advanced State Management13 lectures · 2 quizzes · 1.3 hours

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • Students who want to learn how to build reactive and fast web apps
  • Anyone who's interested in learning an extremely popular technology used by leading tech companies like Netflix
  • Students who want to take their web development skills to the next level and learn a future-proof technology

What you need before you start

  • JavaScript + HTML + CSS fundamentals are absolutely required
  • You DON'T need to be a JavaScript expert to succeed in this course!
  • ES6+ JavaScript knowledge is beneficial but not a must-have
  • NO prior React or any other JS framework experience is required!

How it compares

Against the other 26 rated Udemy courses in Redux on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 88% of them
  • Reviews242,065#1 of 27 by number of reviews
  • Length71.4 hourslonger than 96% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2026more recently than 88% of them

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

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Course Description

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Redux Awards Most Popular

This bestselling course by the author of "React Key Concepts" has turned more students into ReactJS developers than any other courses - more than 1,000,000 and counting!

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Fully updated for React 19!

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A Course For Busy Customers & Business Professionals!

This course also comes with two paths which you can take: The "complete" path (full >40h course) and the "summary" (fast-track) path (~4h summary module) - you can choose the path that best fits your time requirements! 


React.js is THE most popular JavaScript library you can use and learn these days to build modern, reactive user interfaces for the web.

This course teaches you React in-depth, from the ground up, step by step by diving into all the core basics, exploring tons of examples and also introducing you to advanced concepts as well.

You'll get all the theory, tons of examples and demos, assignments and exercises and tons of important knowledge that is skipped by most other resources - after all, there is a reason why this course is that huge! :)

And in case you don't even know why you would want to learn React and you're just here because of some ad or "the algorithm" - no worries: ReactJS is a key technology as a web developer and in this course I will also explain WHY it's that important!


Welcome to "React - The Complete Guide"!

This course will teach you React.js in a practice-oriented way, using all the latest patterns and best practices you need. You will learn all the key fundamentals as well as advanced concepts and related topics to turn you into a React.js developer.

This is a huge course because it really covers EVERYTHING you need to know and learn to become a React.js developer!

No matter if you know nothing about React or if you already got some basic React knowledge (not required but also not a problem), you will get tons of useful information and knowledge out of this course!

My goal with this course is to ensure that you feel confident working with React, so that you can apply for React jobs, use it in your own projects or simply enhance your portfolio as a developer - whatever your goal is: This course gets you there!


I kept this course updated since its initial launch to ensure that you always learn React in the best possible and up-do-date way!


What's in this course?

  • A thorough introduction to React.js (What is it and why would you use it?)

  • All the core basics: How React works, building components with React & building UIs with React

  • Components, props & dynamic data binding

  • Working with user events and state to create interactive applications

  • A (thorough) look behind the scenes to understand how React works under the hood

  • Detailed explanations on how to work with lists and conditional content

  • React Hooks (in-depth)!

  • Working with built-in Hooks and building custom Hooks

  • How to debug React apps

  • Styling React apps with "Styled Components" and "CSS Modules"

  • Working with "Fragments" & "Portals"

  • Dealing with side effects

  • Class-based components and functional components

  • Sending Http requests & handling transitional states + responses

  • Handling forms and user input (incl. validation)

  • Using React Form Actions

  • Redux & Redux Toolkit

  • Routing with React Router

  • Understanding React Server Components

  • An in-depth introduction into Next.js

  • Deploying React Apps

  • Implementing Authentication

  • Unit Tests

  • Combining React with TypeScript

  • Adding Animations

  • Tons of examples and demo projects so that you can apply all the things you learned in real projects

  • And so much more - check out the full curriculum on this page!

This really is the "Complete Guide" - promised!

And best of all?

You don't need any prior React knowledge!

This course starts with zero knowledge assumed! All you need is basic web development and JavaScript knowledge (though the course even includes a brief JavaScript refresher to ensure that we're all on the same page!).

Check out the full curriculum, the free preview videos and join the course risk-free thanks to the 30-day money-back guarantee!

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Instructor Details

Academind by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Bundling the courses and know how of successful instructors, Academind strives to deliver high quality online education. 

Online Education, Real-Life Success - that's what Academind stands for. Learn topics like web development, data analyses and more in a fun and engaging way.

We've taught more than 3,000,000 students on a broad variety of topics. We'd love to teach you as well! :)

Keep learning!

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Reviews

4.6

242,065 ratings on Udemy

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By Gunel Abdulmajid on 8/31/2026

It is very effective course. We appreciate your efforts in making this absolutely amazing. We have learned a lot and intend to keep taking other courses. It is amazing you share so much information under one course. One area to improve is to have more practical exercises towards the end of the course as well. There are a lot of exercises in the first half but lacks towards to the end. Thank you, and keep up the good work. Sincerely, Abdulmajid

By Deepak Kumar on 8/23/2026

It would be great if you could consider adding another project in place of the Section 4 project - something that allows for a similarly deep dive as the Tic-Tac-Toe project. Although Section 5 already provides such an example, I believe having one more project for deeper learning and understanding would be very helpful, especially if it explores the concepts with the same level of depth as the Tic-Tac-Toe project.

By Adrien Lamoureux on 6/26/2026

Max does an amazing job. I had a small issue, but the sheer amount of excellent teaching and tips and encouragement to try things on your own is very good. This course is of exceptional value. Its long, but worth it. He doesn't just teach how, he makes you think of why, and shows good habits and patterns.

By Faizullah Hussain on 6/10/2026

While this course covers a massive amount of React theory, the teaching structure has several significant flaws that make it incredibly difficult for a beginner to follow. First of all, the instructor never once demonstrates the actual birth of a project by installing React completely from scratch. There is a total lack of explanation regarding the core environment files, so you are left completely in the dark about what package.json, Vite, and npm are actually doing in the starter code. Instead of building alongside the student, he uses massive, pre-written projects that he created by himself. He then tries to implement new topics directly into these complex, pre-made codebases, which makes it feel completely overwhelming to decipher what is going on. It is incredibly frustrating to try and learn a new React hook while simultaneously trying to understand a massive wall of code you didn't write. Out of the entire course, he only builds two or three projects from scratch, while the rest are just him explaining his own pre-made files. To be completely honest, I am giving this a 5-star rating solely because of the instructor's incredible motivation, energy, and engaging presentation style. If you already know how to set up projects and just want a quick explanation of a specific concept, his passion makes it worth it, but if you want a true build-to-learn experience that teaches you the full lifecycle of an application, the project setup itself feels completely disjointed.

By Alex Tsui on 6/3/2026

Just starting the course and it looks perfect. As someone who learned React on the job, I'm excited to learn from the ground up and in detail. Update: Reached the halfway point and going through the Next.js section. Things can get a little confusing with different behavior and APIs between the provided code and the video, but I've always found it helpful that there's always someone in the Q&A that's run into the same issue and shared a fix. This exercise is also pretty representative of real life and pretty educational as well.

By Mutant Inier on 5/14/2026

Very well structured course with great visuals and editing. It covers all essential React knowledge in the correct learning order for a new student who knows nothing about React while also exploring external libraries that make the developer's life easier. The author has deep knowledge of the content and explains it clearly and in detail in a simple way so that everyone can understand what he's talking about. I give 4.5 instead of 5 because there were some moments that in my opinion required more insight but the author spent time explaining already explained simple concepts instead of giving more details about the newly learned concept for which more information was expected.

By Juan Patino on 4/20/2026

In general is a good course if you're new to React, really helps understanding the most complex topics in a fun and concise way. However, in some cases it was quite the opposite, and that was mainly because the project that was utilized for teaching was subjected to quickly to very drastic changes and with an explanation that felt short and was only properly acknowledged many lectures after that. In addition, in the cases where we are encouraged to try and develop the project on our own, I would've liked to see a more thorough demo to fully understand the functionality and avoid being forced to guess it instead.

By Sajal Seth on 4/5/2026

this course gives me everything I need to know about react. I bet this course was the best thing happened to me in my journey of learning react. I feel pretty confident now to work in react projects. Atleast whenever I see a react project I understand almost everything written there. I'm only half way to complete the course but the confidence it has given me by this point of time I can't really explain. I am out of words. I'm gonna thank my friend who suggested this course to me and a big Thanks to Maximilian.

By Elia khoury on 3/4/2026

I left this rating because the course explains React in a very structured and clear way. Maximilian Schwarzmüller breaks down complex topics such as components, state management, hooks, and Redux into simple steps that are easy to follow. The practical examples and projects helped me understand how React works in real applications, not just in theory. The course also covers modern React practices and provides good explanations for beginners and intermediate developers.

By Ashish Lekhyani on 1/30/2026

Content is really good, explanation style / teaching style must be improved, i am someone who writes it down as notes so that i don't have to rewatch whenever i want to revise some topic and the way you were explaining was more in a twisted way, although i sure did understand everything but what i am saying is i had to rewatch a lot of stuff just to find a right and concise way to right it down even then my notes are really long and a lot of unnecessary points i have written, what you could do is before explaining the why, first just give us the what, with its definition and how and then move on to the why.

By Beau Carlborg on a month ago

It is good so far, however I'm looking forward to more ES6 examples that will hopefully come up soon in an updated program.

By Liran Gibor on 4 months ago

This course explains how JavaScript works under the hoodthis is essential knowledge for a JS developer. I only wish Anthony Alicea would make new courses

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