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While the recording is from 2020, Jonas is famous for updating his course materials. He added a massive Node.js/Forkify section (a recipe search app) that uses modern tooling (Webpack, NPM, API calls). Even today, that project teaches you exactly how real development teams structure their files.
If you are starting today, buy the course when it is on sale (which is always). Ignore the date. Write the code. Build the Pig Game. You will be a better developer than 80% of the people who jumped straight to a framework. While the recording is from 2020, Jonas is
If you are diving into the world of web development, you have probably seen it mentioned in every Reddit thread and YouTube comment section: Jonas Schmedtmann’s The Complete JavaScript Course 2020: Build Real Projects! on Udemy. If you are starting today, buy the course
Most courses give you a to-do list. This course gives you a fully fledged Mapty application (an exercise tracker using geolocation and local storage). By the end of that section, you have built an object-oriented app that looks professional and actually solves a problem. You can put that on your GitHub immediately. Build the Pig Game
Don’t let the date scare you. JavaScript ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) was the massive upgrade that changed everything. The 2020 version of this course caught the tail end of that standardization. The syntax taught— let , const , arrow functions, promises, modules, and classes—is modern JavaScript. You will not be learning dead code. You will be learning the same vanilla JS used by React, Vue, and Node today.