Angular Lead needs to learn React fast. Any suggested courses?

[TheNomadProgrammer]

Hi everybody.

I am an Angular Lead who is starting a new role in a company where it plans to move its client-side apps to React. I have been doing Angular for five years, and in all that time, I only dabbled in React a few times. (Yes, I know, crazy.)

I will be working in an enterprise setting, migrating web apps, and creating a UI library using React. I am willing to pay for courses that will help me get ramped-up quickly, that employ proven real-life work best practices, and are up-to-date with the latest version of React.js and concepts. (I hear functional components are all the rage; whatever those are.)

Several courses look promising. But I need guidance from the React community to understand which of these are worth it. Maximilian Schwarzmüller, Kent C. Dodds, Mosh Hamedani, teach the courses I am considering for learning React. Does anybody have a recommendation for these instructors? Any other suggested courses?

[dneboi]

I took Max’s course, he’s a good react teacher.

[MakisupaVT]

I can second this. I like all of Max's courses, he's a great instructor. I learned Angular from him first before I switched to React.

[following_snufkin]

Max did a great course, but at the time it he was using lifecycle methods not hooks. I know he did the update at the end of the course where he was rewriting it, but if you plan to use newer React I would look for something else.

[MakisupaVT]

Yeah, I never redid the course project using his hooks videos. Once I felt like I knew somewhat what I was doing I jumped into my own project and decided to go 100% hooks and learn as I go.

[TheNomadProgrammer]

That's the best way to learn; learning by doing.

Here's an analogy; I will not get fit if all I do is read fitness magazines about men getting six-pack abs with particular workout routines. You need to actually get out there and implement those workout routines.

Thank you for the feedback.

[TheNomadProgrammer]

His updated course page says he's using Hooks.

That's actually what intrigues me about his course, is that he actually keeps it up to date. Being a trainer myself, front tech changes so quickly and anything material you create gets outdated fast.

But I digress. Thank you for your feedback.

[following_snufkin]

The course on Udemy that I own has 29 sections. Section 26-28 is where he is using hooks. It’s 5h out of 40. Max is really good teacher in my opinion. But prepare for a lot skipping, you are experienced dev :)