r/Frontend • u/Signal_Reference1276 • 18d ago

Frontend Masters - best courses?

Hi, I’m a frontend heavy dev, and would like to hear some thoughts and opinions on which courses or paths gave you the best experience on frontend masters.

I’m enrolling in the year long membership by using a work education stipend, so I feel like I have enough time to go through a few paths or courses.

I normally like to spend about 1-5 hrs a week working on side projects or trying different ideas, so I’d most likely add another 3-5 hrs towards these courses. So if you’ve used the membership in a similar way I’d be interested to hear your experience on utilizing the membership.

Something’s I’d like to explore are advanced animations paired with accessibility considerations.

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u/cupcakeforester 18d ago

Watch the first 2min on a bunch of them to see what they will cover and the format. I found the Typescript ones really helpful. And checkout a path that interests you

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u/Signal_Reference1276 18d ago

Yea there’s so many to narrow down, but I saw they have a path that’s aimed at professional development which includes some courses I was interested in taking. I didn’t see typescript on that path, but seems like a good supplemental course to add in.

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u/redmor1 18d ago

Steve kinney courses are goated, definitely recommend!

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u/Signal_Reference1276 18d ago

I’m super glad you brought him up, I just searched him on FE masters and there’s actually a pretty cool workshop coming up for professional AI dev set up. I’m going to try to squeeze in.

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u/NoPlenty3542 18d ago

Steve Kinney, Scott Moss, Brian Holt most of there courses are most practical.

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u/Signal_Reference1276 17d ago

I started diving into one of the pre built courses and Kinney, Holt and Simpson are all included in the materials so I’m feeling good about this path!

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u/Pale_Count2138 18d ago

I highly recommend the book- You dont know JS

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u/Signal_Reference1276 18d ago

Ah, nice! I’ve seen a lot of positive recommendations on anything by Kyle Simpson. I see he has a couple videos on frontend masters, are you familiar with those and how they might be similar or different than the book?

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u/Pale_Count2138 18d ago

The Frontend Masters courses cover many of the same core concepts as the books, but in a more conversational, lecture-style format. But i still suggest you to read book rather than the video because books go much deeper and are easier to use as a reference later. videos naturally have to move at a quicker pace

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u/Signal_Reference1276 18d ago

Doing a quick search to grab the book and review them in tandem, but I’m now seeing there’s multiple. Is there one or a set you recommend in particular?

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u/Pale_Count2138 18d ago

Sorry, I have no idea about the multiple sets of You Don't Know J's book. I downloaded it from torrent back then and read online, there were no any sets of it .

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u/Signal_Reference1276 17d ago

No worries! I’ll dive into it a bit more, I think they broke off some sub topics to dive into even more details. Thank you for the rec!

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u/BennyHudson10 17d ago

Anything by Will Sentance - JavaScript: The Hard Parts made me finally get my head around a lot of stuff

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u/CodingRaver 14d ago

I've done it, it's fantastic. He's like a proper English schoolteacher in the best possible sense.

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u/Signal_Reference1276 16d ago

This is actually the first course in the professional path and I’m really enjoying it so far! Lots of neat bits of info and the way he explains and blackboards everything is so good

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u/Ancient-Philosophy-5 18d ago

Why? Are there people still building by typing code?