Start with JavaScript fundamentals, move into React components, props, state, hooks and Redux, and finish by building an interactive Tic-Tac-Toe application from reusable components.
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Module one builds the language and the DOM before React appears
12 assignments across three modules, plus a peer-reviewed project
An interactive Tic-Tac-Toe app built from reusable React components
The course does not assume React, or even JavaScript. It builds the language, then the DOM, then React itself, and ends with a working project.
React Fundamentals starts where most React courses assume you already are. Module one is JavaScript itself - variables, data types, operators, control structures and functions - then DOM manipulation, event handling and AJAX, with error and exception handling to close.
Module two is React: JSX, components, props and state, then the useEffect and useContext hooks, API calls with useEffect, and Redux. Every topic is a short video followed by a quiz on the same idea.
Module three is the capstone. You build a complete, interactive Tic-Tac-Toe application step by step - project setup, a Board component, a reusable interactive Square component and the logic for turns - and submit it for peer review.
No prior JavaScript or React experience is required - the course begins with JavaScript fundamentals. If one of these is you, that is the starting point it was built for.
You know your way around HTML, CSS and some JavaScript, and want React taught as a sequence rather than in fragments.
You have followed a tutorial or two. A structured path with 12 assignments turns that into a foundation you can build on.
Familiarity with programming helps, but nothing more is assumed. Module one starts with variables, data types and your first JavaScript program.
You write vanilla JavaScript and want the step into components, props, state, hooks and Redux - with a project at the end.
These are the four learning outcomes listed for the course on Coursera.
Build interactive web pages using core JavaScript, DOM manipulation, and event handling.
Apply JSX and React components with props and state to build dynamic user interfaces.
Develop React applications using hooks like useEffect and useContext alongside Redux.
Design a complete interactive React project as the course capstone.
A dedicated coach who builds with React for a living - someone who can look at the component that will not re-render and tell you why.
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The state that will not update or the hook that runs twice, explained by someone who has seen it.
Not just whether it renders - whether you would want to maintain it.
Components set for you, then reviewed, so the syntax turns into fluency.
What to learn after Tic-Tac-Toe - routing, testing, a backend - for the frontend role you want.
1:1 coaching is a separate Board Infinity service. It is not part of the Coursera course, and enrolling on Coursera does not include a personal coach.
About 17 hours end to end, fully self-paced. Every module lists what you can do by the end of it, exactly what is inside it, and what you leave with.
Every lesson title and duration, module by module, is in the . Assignments are a mix of graded and practice quizzes; Coursera notes that some are AI-graded.
Coursera lists two skills and one tool for this course. The rest is what the lessons actually cover.
Module one, start to finish: variables, data types, operators, arrays, strings, control flow, functions, the DOM, events, AJAX and error handling.
JSX, components, props and state, the useEffect and useContext hooks, and the Tic-Tac-Toe capstone built from reusable components.
React Redux and a Redux application close out module two, alongside the hooks.
Listed on Coursera as the course tool - Bootstrap (Front-End Framework) - next to the skills HTML and CSS and Javascript.
The two skills Coursera lists, the concepts the lessons cover, and the free tools you need to follow along.
Exactly as Coursera lists them for this course.
What the lessons cover, module by module.
From the Coursera FAQ. All of it is free.
Complete the course and Board Infinity issues a shareable certificate through Coursera. Add it to your LinkedIn profile, your resume or CV, share it on social media, or bring it to a performance review.
Issued on completing the required assessments under the applicable Coursera enrollment or subscription conditions. This is a course completion certificate from Board Infinity on Coursera, not an accreditation or an official React, Meta or Microsoft certification.
Filed under Licenses & Certifications, where recruiters actually look.
A named credential for the JavaScript and React work you completed.
Awarded on the 12 assignments and the peer-reviewed Tic-Tac-Toe project - it reflects what you built.
Board Infinity as the provider, Coursera as the platform.
Component-based UI work in React runs through frontend roles. These are the areas the course content maps to - no outcomes are promised.
The direct path. The DOM, events and component-based UI work in React are everyday parts of the role.
Roles centred on React itself - components, props, state, hooks and Redux, which modules two and three cover.
Turning designs into interactive interfaces - the DOM, events and component work this course practises.
Interfaces that respond to user input - from vanilla JavaScript event listeners to React state.
Reusable components, props and state as the building blocks of an interface - the way the Tic-Tac-Toe project is put together.
Everything here runs on JavaScript. Module one makes sure the language is solid before React arrives.
Every topic in this course is covered somewhere online for free, and plenty of free tutorials are excellent. What a structured course adds is the order you learn things in, the checking that makes it stick, and something to show at the end. Here is the factual difference.
React Fundamentals is course 2 of the Building React and ASP.NET MVC 5 Applications Specialization on Coursera. Completing this course on its own does not complete the specialization - the two courses around it do the rest.
The backend half of the specialization: ASP.NET MVC 5 and C# fundamentals.
View on Coursera This course Course 2 of 3JavaScript fundamentals, then React components, hooks and Redux, then the Tic-Tac-Toe project.
View on Coursera Course 3 of 3Bringing it together: a complete, responsive web application that integrates React with ASP.NET MVC 5.
View on CourseraSee the whole path on the specialization page on Coursera.
Based on the questions answered on the Coursera course page.
Web developers new to React, and learners with some React exposure who want a structured learning path. Basic programming familiarity helps, but module one builds the JavaScript fundamentals first.
No. The Coursera course page states that no prior JavaScript or React experience is required, because the course begins with JavaScript fundamentals before introducing React.
Core JavaScript, DOM manipulation and event handling, then React fundamentals - JSX, components, props, state, the useEffect and useContext hooks and Redux. The final module is a complete interactive React project: a Tic-Tac-Toe application built from reusable components.
A code editor such as VS Code, a modern web browser, and Node.js to run React projects locally. All of these are free. Coursera also lists Bootstrap (Front-End Framework) as the course tool.
About 2 weeks at roughly 10 hours a week, across 3 modules and about 17 hours of material. Because it is self-paced, you can move faster or slower depending on your schedule.
Yes. The schedule is flexible, deadlines adjust around you, and you can revisit modules such as hooks or Redux as often as you need.
Yes. Module three, Front End Application by using Javascript and React JS, builds a Tic-Tac-Toe application step by step - project setup, the Board component, a reusable interactive Square component and the logic for turns - and ends with a peer-reviewed submission.
Yes. This page is Board Infinity’s own overview of the course. Enrollment, pricing, lessons, grading and the certificate all happen on Coursera, where the course is hosted.
Yes. When you complete the required assessments under the applicable Coursera enrollment or subscription conditions, you receive a shareable certificate you can add to your LinkedIn profile, resume or CV.
The Coursera course does not include personal 1:1 mentorship. It provides Coursera Labs for hands-on practice, in-course plugins for quick check-ins, and structured feedback through quizzes and graded assessments. Board Infinity’s 1:1 coaching is a separate, optional service.
The Coursera course page notes that the hands-on work on JSX, hooks and Redux, and the final Tic-Tac-Toe project, can be relevant to frontend interview preparation and give you something concrete to discuss. It does not guarantee any interview or job outcome.
Coursera states that financial aid or scholarships may be available for select learning programs. If it applies to this course, a link to apply appears on the Coursera course page. Eligibility is decided by Coursera, not guaranteed.
Board Infinity 1:1 coaching pairs you with a practitioner while you take the course. Optional, and separate from the Coursera enrollment.
One sequenced path, three modules, one working project at the end. Enrollment, lessons, grading and the certificate all happen on Coursera.
Intermediate · 2 weeks at 10 hours a week · Flexible schedule · Shareable certificate