Stop Giving UpBecome A React Developer

Learn how to think in components and build any React project you can dream of by taking action instead of just following along with tutorials.

Lot's of things make React hard to learn:

• State Management
• Component Lifecycle
• Testing
• Clean Code

It doesn't matter how many times you read the docs, watch tutorials, or try to build a project, you always get stuck and don't know what to do.

Even the simpler concepts of React, such as event handlers and state management, are confusing, and don't even get me started on how difficult more complex things like useEffect and testing.

This is exactly how I felt when I first started learning React.

The problem was I never truly learned to think and program the React way. I was still trying to apply my JavaScript programming knowledge to React which was holding me back.

It took me a couple years to realize my mistakes and then another year to truly learn the React way of thinking, but in that process I stumbled upon the perfect learning technique that allowed me to program in React with such ease that I felt confident building any project. I want to share this knowledge with you so you can save yourself years of frustration and confusion and get straight to the fun part of React, building awesome projects.

Learn how to think like a React developer so you can build any project with ease

The only way to learn React is to rewire your brain to think like a React developer, and the best way for me to show you that is by talking about sandwiches.

Imagine you want to make a sandwich. What would you do? You probably would make a list of all the ingredients you need and then create step by step instructions (like a recipe) on how to make the sandwich. It would look something like this.

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of bread
• 3 slices of tomato
• 5 slices of ham
• Lettuce
• Honey mustard

Instructions:

1. Put the ham on one slice of bread
2. Put the lettuce and tomato on top of the ham
3. Spread the honey mustard on the other slice of bread
4. Combine the slices of bread

This is your default way of thinking about solving problems and that expands to how you program as well.

You think of your code as a list of instructions that when performed from start to finish result in the desired outcome. This is how many programming languages work and is one of the hardest skills to learn when programming, but you need to forget all of that because that is not how React works.

Once I realized this, I was able to write React code faster and with less bugs than I ever had before

There is actually a second way you can create this sandwich. Instead of listing out each instruction one by one, you can instead go to a sandwich shop and order a sandwich. The massive list of instructions can essentially be reduced to a single statement.

Make me a ham sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and honey mustard.

This way of doing things is completely different since you focus on what you want instead of how to get it, and this is how React expects you to write your code.

This may sound like a small difference, but it changes everything about how you write your code.

Once I learned how to do this, I was able to write React code faster and with less bugs than I ever had before. Not only that but programming in React became fun.

Most courses fail at this

They teach you how to program in React, but they don't teach you how to think in React. The reason for this is because most courses follow one of three patterns:

1. API Regurgitation

These courses dump a bunch of information onto you about React and essentially just read you the documentation word for word.

They don't even consider the order they teach concepts, because it doesn't matter how good the content is, if it is presented in the wrong order it is useless.

2. Glorified Code-Alongs

By far the most popular yet least effective.

These courses seem really appealing since you have some massive project like a Netflix or Facebook clone you can show off, but the problem is these courses don't actually teach you anything.

This is equivalent to you wanting to learn how to make soup and someone just giving you a bowl of soup. You have no idea how that soup was made, what goes into it, or how to make it yourself.

Working in React feels so overwhelming and I have no idea where to start

This is the exact same problem with these courses. In the end you have an awesome project, but no idea how to build it, and you will still get stuck even trying to build small projects on your own.

3. Bad Exercises

Exercises are the best way to learn, but most courses do this wrong.

The problem with courses that use exercises wrong is they give you a bunch of exercises to do, but they don't give you any guidance on how to do them.

This is the same as going to culinary school and on the very first day of school your teacher asks you to create a complex shrimp risotto. You barely know how to cook, let alone how to cook a complex meal, so obviously this task feels overwhelming and you have no idea where to start.

This is probably a feeling you are familiar with since working in React feels so overwhelming and you have no idea where to start.

The Right Way

In order to truly learn React you need a combination of all 3 of these approaches tweaked in a way that makes learning React easy and fun.

That is the entire idea behind this course.

Every topic you learn in this course is organized in a logical way that makes each new topic build on the previous one. This way you are always learning something new, but it is never overwhelming.

On top of that, each grouping of topics is broken down into 4 distinct parts:

1. Learning
2. Connecting
3. Practicing
4. Building

First, I teach you how something works, what it does, and why you would want to use it, so you get a strong understanding of one topic.

Next, I show you how this topic works on its own and combined with other topics you have learned so you learn how to use this topic in your own projects.

Third, I give you small exercises to help you solidify your understanding of the topic.

Lastly, I give you a project to build that is perfectly crafted around your current skill level so you can practice using this topic in a real world scenario without getting overwhelmed.

The key to making this course so effective, is that it includes instructions on how to do each project, so you can focus on learning how to think like a React developer without being overwhelmed with infinite possibilities.

What's Included?

This is not your typical React course. This is everything you need to become a React developer.

Most courses focus on trying to cram in as much React content as possible in hopes that you will buy the course because it looks big and impressive, but that is not how this course is built. Instead, this course focuses first and foremost on making you a React developer by including a massive number of exercises and projects that will have you building complex React applications that you actually understand.

Beginner Course

A complete video course with just under 11 hours of content spread across 80 videos and 10 modules.

This may be called a Beginner Course, but it doesn't just stop after covering the basics. This course covers everything you need to know to be a good React developer, and will ensure that you know how to think like a React developer.

I know this sounds crazy, but this course will take you from knowing nothing about React to being able to build complex React applications on your own. Even if you already have some React knowledge, the content in this course will expand upon your current skills and push you to new levels of understanding.

While 11 hours may not seem like a lot if you are used to long Udemy courses, I can assure you this course is packed with information. Each minute is as condensed as possible with knowledge, projects, and exercises which means not a single second of your time with this course is wasted. I spent months crafting this course to shave every unnecessary second off so none of your time with this course will be wasted.

Also, if you plan to get through this course in only 11 hours, good luck. With all the projects and exercises in this course it will easily take you over a month to get through everything, and that is if you work on the course every single day!

There are 16 projects and exercises in this course for you to complete with some taking days to finish. This doesn't even include the plethora of smaller exercises embedded into each video.

Advanced Course

Once you become a good React developer, it is time to take the leap into becoming a great React developer.

This is a complete video course with over 11 hours of content spread across 62 videos and 9 modules.

This course not only covers advanced React features, but more importantly covers concepts like security, TypeScript, testing, and how to write clean code.

The skills in this course will set you apart from all other job applicants as most React developers never learn any of these concepts until after landing their first job. I personally didn't even know what 90% of the concepts in this course were until years after I landed my first job and was forced to learn them on the job.

I can only imagine how much easier it would have been to land my first job if I knew these skills before applying.

Bonus ProjectBest Feature

What if I told you that you could build this advanced job board project by the end of this course entirely on your own? That's what this entire section of the course is all about.

There are two things that make it difficult to land a job as a React developer.

1. Struggling to think like a developer
2. Not having experience working on a real world project with a team

This project solves both of these problems for you. The reason it is able to do so is because it is structured in a way that emulates the exact feeling and process of working on a large scale project with a team.

This is something I have never seen done anywhere else before and is the reason I am so excited to share this project with you. If you want a glimpse into what this looks like check out the introduction video for this project.

This project will turn you into an incredibly talented React developer and will give you the confidence you need to land your first job.