React Hooks

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Random Blogs

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Conferences

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Youtube Videos

It's happened to all of us, one moment you're using Youtube to learn about React's useEffect Hook and the next you're watching a "KIDS REACT TO PAYPHONES" video. Finding a high-quality, up-to-date YouTube video that effectively answers all of your questions on a JavaScript topic might actually be more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. With so many videos and zero quality control, it’s easy to get sucked down the YouTube rabbit hole for hours without getting much learning out of it.

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Live Workshops

You know what they say, the best learning happens sitting in a classroom for 8 hours at a time listening to dry lectures and working through practice problems that only serve to make you feel comfortable so you’ll feel like you learned something. Oh wait, no. No one says that.

The better approach?
All our courses follow the same proven structure, optimized for knowledge, not the illusion of learning.

Effort

We're obsessed with making the most effective developer education content on the planet. On average, it takes us around 1,900 hours to create a new course. While others prioritize quantity, we optimize for quality.

Non-Contextual Practice

Similar to the non-contextual analysis, context is everything. The first time you're hands-on with a new topic, any extra contextual information you have to process only serves as a distraction. This is why we first have you work through small, focused practice problems before you ever see the new topic in the context of a larger project.

Non-Contextual Analysis

The first time you're introduced to a topic, any extra contextual information you have to process only serves as a distraction. Although it takes more time, our non-contextual analysis comes in two forms, video and text. This way, no matter how you prefer to learn, there's an option for you.

Contextual Practice

You've probably experienced it before, you feel like you're learning so much going through a tutorial only to hit a wall once it's time to actually apply that knowledge outside of the context of the tutorial. All the non-contextual practice in the world is useless if you're not then able to take that knoweldge and apply it towards a (contextual) production level codebase.

Quiz

Nothing fancy here. After learning about the topic you'll receive a quiz to make sure you have a solid conceptual understanding before moving on to the hands-on practice.

The result?

React Hooks Mastery

14 Topics
230 Minutes of Video
23,585 Words of Text
10 Quizzes
13 Exercises
2 Projects

Outline

Course Overview

Introduction, Philosophy, and Tips
Projects (What you'll build)

We'll start the course off with some housekeeping items. You'll learn about the best strategy for getting the most out of the course as well as the projects you'll be building.

Adding Side Effects

(Bonus) Execution Context, Scopes, and Closures.
(Quiz) Execution Context, Scopes, and Closures
The useEffect Hook
(Quiz) useEffect
(Practice) Character Limit
(Solution) Character Limit
(Practice) Wait Delay
(Solution) Wait Delay
(Practice) API Requests
(Solution) API Requests

In this section you'll learn how to add side effects to React function components using React's useEffect Hook. Along the way, you'll learn some common useEffect pitfalls to be aware of.

New Render, Same Value

The useRef Hook
(Quiz) useRef
(Practice) Complex Form
(Solution) Complex Form
(Practice) Click Game
(Solution) Click Game

In this section you'll learn about the useRef Hook which allows you to persist a value across renders without triggering a re-render.

Project

Introduction
index.js
Battle.js
Card and Nav
useHover.js
Loading.js
Popular.js
Results.js

In this section you'll apply everything you've learned throughout the course by refactoring an existing app which uses React class components to use React Hooks.

But why?

Why React Hooks?
(Quiz) Why Hooks?

When React Hooks were released, React was the most popular and most loved front-end framework in the JavaScript ecosystem. In this section, you'll learn why, despite existing praise, the React team dedicated so many resources to creating and releasing Hooks. Along the way, you'll also get a soft introduction to the main aspects of the Hooks API.

Custom Hooks

Rules of Hooks
(Quiz) Rules of Hooks
(Bonus) Higher-order Components
(Bonus) Render Props
Creating Custom Hooks
(Quiz) Custom Hooks
(Practice) useWait
(Solution) useWait
(Practice) useWindowDimensions
(Solution) useWindowDimensions
(Practice) useFetch
(Solution) useFetch

In this section you'll learn why and how to create custom React Hooks. You'll also learn why custom Hooks can replace other patterns such as Higher-order components and Render Props.

Bypassing Props

Guide to React Context
(Quiz) React Context
(Practice) LocaleContext
(Solution) LocaleContext

In this section you'll learn how to pass data deep into your component tree by utilizing the useContext Hook.

Next Steps

Next Steps
Curriculum

Although you've gone through the course, you're not quite done yet. In this section you'll learn about the curriculum project you'll build in order to cement what you've learned throughout the course.

Managing State with Hooks

The useState Hook
(Quiz) useState
(Practice) Theme
(Solution) Theme
(Practice) Todos
(Solution) Todos
(Practice) Show/Hide
(Solution) Show/Hide

In this section you'll learn how to use React's useState Hook to add and manage state in a function component.

Managing (Complex) State

The useReducer Hook
(Quiz) useReducer
(Practice) Refactor useFetch
(Solution) Refactor useFetch

Sometimes you need to manage a complex piece of state. In this section you'll learn about the useReducer Hook, how to use it, and when to use it instead of useState.

Performance

React.memo, useCallback, and useMemo
(Quiz) Performance

Although not always necessary, sometimes your app needs a performance boost. In this section you'll learn about three features of React to do that, React.memo, useCallback, and useMemo.

Hype

Kaleb Davenport

Once again, Tyler McGinnis knocked it out of the park with this React Hooks series. Not only are the lessons concrete and hands-on, they also help you reason about how to build apps of your own. If you take his advice that passive learning is lame, I guarantee you will learn a lot from this course!

Carlos Loureda

Awesome content over Hooks. Forget those Medium posts and other content, grab a subscription in Tyler's website and learn Hooks and other interesting parts of React

Trevor

Super clear and to the point. Really enjoyed this course, and am super excited about React Hooks now. Great job Tyler and team!

Simon Vrachliotis

I already knew React hooks, but this course really consolidated my understanding of them. I teach React training workshops myself, and after taking this course, my confidence in talking about hooks is much stronger. I love the cadence of the course, alternating theory and practical exercises. Tyler, you are a great teacher, and it's obvious you have spent a lot of time thinking about how people learn, and "how to teach". 🎉

Jonathan Amparo

Just brilliant. These courses made it easy to understand the concepts he was teaching. He is really good at the materials he's using. On top of that, he's an amazing educator. Very enthusiastic, straight to the point and also has a sense of humor. It's a big plus from me.

Zach Gottlieb

There's no shortage of resources for learning React and Javascript, but this is hands down the best of the various courses / workshops I've done. As an experienced Angular developer looking to pick up React, I found this massively useful and the right level of detail. I especially liked the complementary articles and explanations of the Javascript principles that underlie the different features in React. Great stuff all around, thank you very much Tyler!

Jesus Urias

I loved it. Especially after doing the original React Course, this was a great segway into react hooks. It felt more like I was the one personally making changes to everything and learning more on my own. 10/10 would do it again.

Roland

Now I know the *Why* and the *How* of React Hooks. Most of all, I've gain much more confidence using them. Thank you for the amazing work!

Christian Joun

Tyler gives you a chance to learn things from the ground up and the challenges he creates are really clever and just the right difficulty. He never leaves you hanging either, the material is solid. Somethings I like about Tyler is his willingness to be repetitive, how he always explains why he's doing something and what the other options are. You deff feel he worked smart and hard at creating this course and it shows in what you learn in the end. This course is remarkable.

Josh Stobbs

I work with Vue day in and day out, and as such I haven't had much time to dig in to the React side of things. It took roughly three weeks of working through these courses in my free-time but now I feel completely confident in being able to jump into a React codebase and be productive. The videos are well thought out and the examples routinely were just what I needed for the concepts to click. Honestly, some of the best teaching I've ever seen.

Edgar

I took the React Hooks course. It was awesome. Tyler offers an all-in-one experience you'll hardly find elsewhere. He goes beyond typical courses and does not only explain the what and how, but also the why and best practices. Absolutely worth it.

FAQ

What makes these courses different from other online courses?

Our courses are designed to teach you everything you need to know to confidently write production-ready code. The tradeoff is it will require more work and focus than a course that features a few bite-sized screencasts. Real learning takes time, but you can feel confident that once you've finished a course, you’ll have mastered everything you need to know with minimal knowledge gaps.

In which order should I take the courses?

If you're comfortable with JavaScript (including ES6) and want to jump straight to React, go with "React", "React Hooks", then any other course that looks interesting. If you're not comfortable with JavaScript, start with "Modern JavaScript", then "Advanced JavaScript", then any other course you'd like.

I need an official invoice with certain fields like VAT. Can I get one?

Once you sign up, as part of the welcome email, you'll be given a link to fill out where you can input all your company's info.

Do the courses have captions?

Yes.

What level of experience is required for getting the most out of these courses?

A fundamental understanding of JavaScript or familiarity with another programming language. For example, you should be comfortable with functions, arguments, loops, control flow, etc. If you want to jump straight in to the React courses, we recommend having a stronger knowledge of JavaScript, which you can get from our JavaScript courses if you’re unsure.

What projects will I build throughout the courses

You can find every project on the /projects page.

How long should I expect each course to take?

Naturally, it depends. Considering all our courses are comprised of video, text, quizzes, practice problems, and curriculum - 15-30 hours per course is a safe assumption.

How does the subscription work?

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