Reactive Programming with Spring Framework 5 (Udemy.com)

Amazing course! Pretty updated with all the topics. Really recommend it. By the way, I think a more complete error handling section should be included, as I needed to explore on the internet for some options. Congrats!

As usual, John Thompson courses are real world training for developers around all the world. His courses are pleasant to listen to and good to learn to, in a fluent english. His courses are my first choice since some years now, to build new skills or sharpen my own skills in various themes as a Java Consultant since +15 years. It's worth the price you have paid. Have a good learning path.

It's a good course to understand how to use reactive programming along with Spring, but the instructor just gives you a shallow understanding regarding reactive programming core features. I recommend you to first assist some other course that explores more reactive library and core features, that way you can get the most out of this course.

JT seems like a nice guy but I found this course wanting. I felt that he is very confused several times. In my opinion, there's also a lot of noise from him chattering a lot and repeats himself even more. JT also pauses a lot during things going wrong and when he comes back there's a lot of code that he does not go through. Many times I was surprised with code that wasn't there before in previous videos. Maybe it's in the resources but finding new stuff just spawn out of nowhere isn't very rich. As a suggestion, maybe you could pause when something goes wrong, but then you do over the solution again, after you've time to figure it out properly. Some of the solutions are just poor workarounds. We all make mistakes when coding you know, but the fact that he needs to pause the videos to sort it out and then come back with everything sorted isn't great. Other instructors can quickly catch on what's wrong and sort things out "live". Section 6 is really flawed. It felt like poor planning and preparation. Maybe he should not be commenting code out but rather writing out code from scratch. In my opinion, learners should be writing code. And writing along is a big part of it. In some situations, it's not clear how a method works. JT quickly comments on top of those methods but there are just too many gaps. I'm not saying he isn't knowledgable. He clearly is. It actually feels that because he is so confident, he's constantly improvising. And sometimes it turns out really bad. Lesson 53 was such a mess. Really bad choices on how to handle not found. A lot of workarounds. To be completely honest, it felt like the solution I'd expect from a beginner. Not only in this lesson but a lot throughout this course: too much imperative programming. At some points, he takes on a more declarative programming style. From section 8 on forward, I felt the course is too shallow. Guess the point was to teach Reactive, period. Problem is that it barely touches the surface of everything in the course. I really want to apologize if any of this reads offensive, it wasn't my intention. But there's so much potential here... I really expected more.

Concepts are not covered properly. Theoretically there is not much explanation about the things which we are using and why we are using. What is the exactly need. If we have to google about them then why we are paying for the course? paid course of 1 specific thing means we are going to get good learning theoretical + practical. For every starting of new concept, i believe we should explain first what, why, how, when etc. There should also be some objective type questions after each section except the assignment also.

I love how JT exposes a little bit of theory mixed with a little bit of practical code. There is a linear path in every section of the course and in every lesson JT adds a little brick to understand the topic section. Spring WebFlux technology is very great and powerfull but not esaily to understand if you have an "HTTP attitude" but JT has the key and the experience to introduce you to that easily.

I got a good grasp of the spring rractive framework from using the new WebClient, changing controllers to use Handlers. The last section for Rabbit Mq was a little quick but still got a feel for how thevReactive framework can also be used for Message queues. Thanks John also for replying so quickly to my questions I placed in Slack

Thank you John. You did a good job. I was not very familiar with reactive staff and now I have a solid basis to work in spring reactive projects. I have another point, RobbitMQ part is not complete, maybe you forgot to upload all videos

I took the original course and honestly didn't get much out of it. This version just blows the original away. If you took the original, it is well worth your time to retake this course. Nice job John!

I'm surprised that this course has so many positive reviews. It was a very basic course, with a bunch of disparate things thrown in to make 3.5 hours. You could get the same knowledge just by reading some spring docs.

Full end to end WebFlux application with Spring Framework 5 would have been better.

Could have spent more time on the main tenets of the Reactive manifesto, I mean the fundamentals. A section devoted to Java streams API perhaps was not needed, perhaps more focus should have been on the basic semantics of Rx, spring-reactive. The reactive code unless explained with sufficient clarity could be tough to understand.