The Joy of React

The Joy of React is an interactive online course for learning React. It is taught by Josh Comeau and aims at people who have struggled to learn React from other tutorials.

The course starts with the basics and builds a clear mental model of how React works, rather than asking you to memorize patterns. Lessons include many exercises, projects inspired by real-world work, and small games and activities. It also covers the modern JavaScript syntax that React code uses, along with some community tools and packages.

• Builds a mental model of how React works
• Exercises and real-world inspired projects
• Mini-games and interactive activities
• Covers modern JavaScript syntax used in React
• Introduces community tools and packages

Beginners who want a structured route into React, and developers who want to fill gaps in how React works.

You enroll through the site. The course is taught in an interactive format rather than as recorded videos alone, since you write code as you go. The author also runs a CSS course in a similar style.