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Brian Holt
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Brian Holt currently serves as a staff product manager at Neon, bringing his robust experience in JavaScript engineering to the product. With a rich background that includes being a JavaScript engineer and PM at tech giants like Netflix, Stripe, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Reddit, Brian has a keen eye for developer experience and cloud services. Beyond the office, Brian is probably drinking coffee or beer, playing Dota 2 poorly, snowboarding anywhere he can, and playing with his son and dog in Sacramento.
Brian Holt's Courses
Intermediate React, v6
Master React 19 and create high-performance apps! Build projects using React Server Components, static site generation, and server-side rendering. Explore performance bottlenecks in the framework and leverage transitions and deferred values as you maximize performance.
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Complete Intro to React, v9
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Learn to build real-world apps with React 18 and React 19. Use tools like Vite, ESLint, and Prettier to scaffold a project and the latest React and TanStack features to build a complete e-commerce application.
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Complete Intro to SQLite
Neon
Learn SQLite, the world’s most widely-deployed database. Learn SQL syntax, performance and scaling strategies. Build real-world apps with Node.js integration.
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Complete Intro to Containers, v2
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Get an introduction to containers from the ground up. Build a container by hand, then learn Docker, optimization, multi-container projects, and intro to Kubernetes.
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Complete Intro to Product Management
Neon
Learn the role of a Product Manager in a technical environment – learn through real-world exercises to ideate, prioritize, and create roadmaps for projects.
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Complete Intro to SQL & PostgreSQL
Neon
Using the popular PostgreSQL database, you'll learn to set up, model, and query your data through real-world projects.
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Complete Intro to Web Development, v3
Neon
This web development course will take you from building your first website to having the foundation for becoming a professional web developer. Start learning for free!
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Complete Intro to Real-Time
Neon
Learn to build apps where the client can push messages to the server and talk in real-time. Start today!
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Complete Intro to Computer Science
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Learn our computer science intro course and understand Algorithms and Big O Analysis, Recursion, Sorting, Data Structures, AVL Trees, and more.
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Complete Intro to Databases
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In this course you'll learn the basics of using four of the most popular open-source types of databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and Redis.
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Complete Intro to Linux and the Command-Line
Neon
Gain powerful command-line skills, learn to use Ubuntu, quit VIM, handle package management, and write your own shell scripts!
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Complete Front-End Project: Build a Game
Neon
Organize your front-end code, manage application state with state machines, and automate writing better code using tools like ESLint, Parcel, and Prettier.
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What They're Saying
I now have a good picture of realtime solutions. Brian teaches them in a very simple way.
Javier Escacena
It's a great introductory React course. Brian shows the most up to date state of the art tech stack that people are using in the field right now. So many great insights & the right framing in terms of common React naming conventions and patterns.
Oleksandr Hrishchuk
I like Brian's way of teaching and I appreciate the time he has taken to explain the setup and tools. The supporting notes are great too!
Esme France
As usual, I very much enjoyed the React Course by Brian Holt. Awesome job in explaining components, and good to learn testing as well. Looking forward to intermediate course.
Mihir Phadnis
In every updated version of Complete Intro to React, I keep finding something new to learn, something that will inspire new things to try out, or just fill some gaps. Brian is a great instructor.
Justin Case
Amazing course and amazing person! Brian explained everything really well and I'm really glad I bought a membership.
Imad El Jabouri
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