React fundamentals

Do these first

What you will be able to do

• Build components with props and useState
• Lift state and pass callbacks
• Fetch data with useEffect without infinite loops

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Official docs

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React docs — Learn React

Meta·3h

The interactive official tutorial is better than most paid courses.

Score 98

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12hProject-based

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React — full course (hooks)

freeCodeCamp / Bob Ziroll·12h

Project-heavy. Skip class components if the recording still shows them.

Score 90

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1h 20mFastest path

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React Tutorial for Beginners

Programming with Mosh·1h 20m

Eighty minutes from empty folder to a working React app with components, state, effects and API calls, edited so that nothing non-essential survives. It is the shortest path we found to a first running app for someone who already knows JavaScript, and it is deliberately scoped — routing, context and testing are left to the full courses.

Score 74

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2h 7mLearnPath pick

Project-orientedyoutube videobeginner

React JS 19 Full Course 2025 | Build an App and Master React in 2 Hours

JavaScript Mastery·2h 7m

React 19 taught entirely through building an app — components, state, effects, props, routing — in two hours. It is the narrowest gap between starting and shipping something real, and it is version-current.

Score 80

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4h 43mBest for beginners

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React Full Course for free ⚛️

Bro Code·4h 43m

Nearly five hours in an ordered curriculum — components, props, state, effects, forms, context, router — with a project after each block. The most systematic free React course in the verified set.

Score 80

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1h 29m

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All React Hooks Explained - React Hooks Tutorial 2025

PedroTech·1h 29m

Every important hook explained and demonstrated in ninety minutes, including the rules of hooks and custom hooks. The best single revision resource before a React interview or a refactor.

Score 75

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32 videos

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Full Modern React Tutorial

Net Ninja·3h 15m

32 short episodes that build one React application incrementally — the original modern React tutorial series, still a clean way to see a project grow step by step.

Score 74

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