Today I finished the Wes Bos React for Beginners Course and boy is Wes a Boss. Never heard of him or his super duper course? Check out the details below:
Wes Bos is a Full Stack Canadian Developer, who has taught over 500 students in 200+ classes, plus thousands of developers through online courses/videos. He knows his stuff and he knows how to set developers up for success.
It's a fantastic resource that Wes Bos put together for React newbees, which teaches you, through video and corresponding exercises/app build, what React is about.
Here's the step process to getting you signed up and set up for the course:
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Go to React for Beginners to sign up.
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You'll receive an email invite to join the React Course and the Slack channel. Follow the prompts to complete registration.
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Once logged in to the React course on his website, click on the Starter Files link beneath the course description. This will take you to Wes's Github Repo.
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Fork the React-For-Beginners-Starter-Files repo, so that you have a copy of the starter files in your GitHub account.
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Now git clone your forked copy, so that it is local to your computer.
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From there, change directories into
catch-of-the-day. You have set up the playground to work in! Niiiiiiice. -
Now go back to the Wes Bos React Course in the browser and you'll see the option to stream the course videos or download them. You pick!
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You're set! Jump in.
No worries, we all do! Within the starter folder, you'll find a stepped-solutions folder. Each folder contains the files for the beginning of each video, so if you need any code, pull the appropriate file into your catch-of-the-day folder!
Curious as to what you're building? Check out my version here. PS - I did not implement authorization and deployed with now.sh.
Wes Bos. Duh.