I couldn't be more excited to introduce you to what I can call my best work to date: Two new video courses available now on egghead.io! The beginner material is free forever and the advanced stuff is worth a subscription so I encourage you to give them a look!

The Beginner's Guide to ReactJS

1. Introduction to The Beginner's Guide to ReactJS (2:07)
2. Write Hello World with raw React APIs (3:24)
3. Use JSX with React (5:48)
4. Create Custom React Components (5:15)
5. Validate Custom React Component Props with PropTypes (3:30)
6. Conditionally Render A React Component (2:43)
7. Rerender a React Application (3:17)
8. Style React Components (5:36)
9. Use Event Handlers with React (3:42)
10. Use Component State with React (7:09)
11. Stop Memory Leaks with componentWillUnmount Lifecycle Method in React(1:14)
12. Use Class Components with React (4:16)
13. Manipulate the DOM with React refs (2:23)
14. Make Basic Forms with React (3:35)
15. Make Dynamic Forms with React (3:42)
16. Controlling Form Values with React (8:48)
17. Use the key prop when Rendering a List with React (4:29)
18. Make HTTP Requests with React (3:29)
19. Build and deploy a React Application (3:02)

This course is for React newbies and those looking to get a better understanding of React fundamentals. With a focus on React fundamentals, you'll come out of this course knowing what problems React can solve for you and how it goes about solving those problems. You will have a good grasp on what JSX is and how it translates to regular JavaScript function calls and objects.

Each lesson in this course is just a single index.html file which will help you keep your focus on learning React and not distracted by all the tools that make production applications work. The course wraps up with a lesson on how to move from these index.html files to a more production ready development environment and even how to deploy your app to a great service like Netlify.

Enjoy!

Advanced React Component Patterns

1. Introducing Advanced React Component Patterns (1:44)
2. Build a Toggle Component (2:01)
3. Write Compound Components (4:06)
4. Make Compound React Components Flexible (4:01)
5. Make Enhanced React Components with Higher Order Components (3:22)
6. Handle prop namespace clashes with Higher Order Components (3:47)
7. Improve debuggability of Higher Order Components (4:43)
8. Handle ref props with Higher Order Components (2:54)
9. Improve Unit Testability of Higher Order Components (2:45)
10. Handle static properties properly with Higher Order Components (3:02)
11. Use Render Props with React (5:25)
12. Use Prop Collections with Render Props (2:05)
13. Use Prop Getters with Render Props (6:12)
14. Use Component State Initializers (2:46)
15. Make Controlled React Components with Control Props (4:06)
16. Implement a React Context Provider (6:47)
17. Implement a Higher Order Component with Render Props (1:52)
18. Rerender Descendants Through shouldComponentUpdate (3:19)
19. Use Redux with Render Props (6:49)

The goal of this course is to give you the knowledge of advanced patterns you can use to make React components that are more flexible, simpler, and more fun to build, use, and maintain. We'll start with a simple <Toggle /> component which we'll progressively refactor to each of the patterns so you can see the relative trade-offs of the patterns and how they can be used together to increase the usefulness of your component while at the same time simplifying things for everyone.

Having built and shipped components using each of these patterns, I'll help you understand and weigh the tradeoffs of each of them and you'll come to intuitively know where to apply each pattern in your own components. When you're finished with this course, hopefully you'll have a list of actionable things you can do to rework the components that you're building to make them more flexible, simpler, and more fun to build, use, and maintain.

Enjoy!

Free! 🤑

The Beginner's course is joining the ever growing egghead.io "Community Resources" which means it will be free forever! I'm totally amazed by egghead and all the free stuff they sponsor. Thank you egghead!!

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Reactions

I've made a twitter moment with some reactions to the courses. Here are some of my personal favorites:

Tolu @afrocode_

The react router source code I had been trying to wrap my head around just became clearer after watching @kentcdodds advanced react component patterns video. I just became smarter all of a sudden lol 🙏

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(Reactions from @dissimile and @rossipedia were also among my favorites, but those tweets have since been deleted.)

I'm really excited by all these positive responses! Thanks everyone!

Conclusion

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Thanks everyone! And Merry Christmas! 🎁 🎄