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React from Scratch: Build Production UIs

Go from zero React knowledge to shipping a real, production-structured app.

4.7(5,310)42.3K students9 lessons · 1h 52m

Last updated 02 May 2026, 00:00

Priya Nataraj · Staff Software Engineer, ex-Meta
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About this course

This course starts with nothing assumed and ends with a deployed application. You'll learn components, state and effects the way you'll actually use them, then put it together into an app structured the way production codebases are, not a toy example that falls apart past the first feature.

What you'll learn

  • Build components with props, state and composition
  • Manage side effects and data fetching with useEffect
  • Structure a React app that stays maintainable as it grows
  • Handle forms, lists and conditional UI confidently
  • Deploy a production React app from scratch

Curriculum

3 sections · 9 lessons · 1h 52m

  • Why React, and how it renders10m
  • JSX and components12m
  • Props and composition11m
  • State with useState14m

Student reviews

Maya Lindqvist

15 Aug 2025, 00:00

5.0

This is the course I wish I'd found a year ago. Practical from lesson one.

Ella Vance

26 Mar 2026, 00:00

3.0

The pacing dragged a little in the middle, but the final project pulled it all together.

Ngozi Umeh

02 Apr 2025, 00:00

4.0

Solid course overall, though I'd have liked a couple more advanced examples.