Brian Holt
Stripe
Brian is currently working as a product manager on dev tools at Stripe and he’s all about developers, developers, developers. Previously he was a JavaScript engineer at Netflix, Microsoft and Reddit. When not working, Brian finds time to teach on Frontend Masters, run his mouth on Front End Happy Hour, travel all over the world, and play with his adorable dog. Brian is currently a resident of Seattle, WA.
Brian Holt's Courses
Complete Intro to Real-Time
Build apps where the client can push messages to the server and talk in real-time! You’ll start by learning long polling with Vanilla JavaScript and Node.js, then open web sockets by hand, and finally, you’ll learn some excellent web socket abstractions with SocketIO. You’ll learn back off and retry strategies along the way, as well as use HTTP2 push in the browser!
Complete Intro to Computer Science
Even without a traditional computer science background, you’ll be able to learn big computer science topics: Algorithms and Big O Analysis, Recursion, Sorting, Data Structures, AVL Trees, Binary Search Trees, Tree Traversals, and Path Finding.Complete Intro to React, v6
Much more than an intro, you’ll build with the latest features in React, including hooks, effects, context, and portals. Learn to build real-world apps from the ground up using the latest tools in the React ecosystem, like Parcel, ESLint, Prettier, and React Router!Intermediate React, v3
Build scalable React applications while learning React hooks in-depth, CSS-in-JS with TailwindCSS, increase performance with code splitting and server-side rendering, add TypeScript, state management with Redux, test your app with Jest …and more!Complete Intro to Databases
In this course you'll learn the basics of using four of the most popular open-source types of databases: document based database MongoDB, relational database PostgreSQL, graph database Neo4j, and key-value store Redis.Complete Intro to Linux and the Command-Line
Gain powerful command-line skills, learn to use Ubuntu, quit VIM, handle package management, and write your own shell scripts!Complete Front-End Project: Build a Game
Organize your front-end code, manage application state with state machines, and automate writing better code using tools like ESLint, Parcel, and Prettier.Complete Intro to Containers (feat. Docker)
Learn to create containers from scratch and with Dockerfiles, run containers from Dockerhub, and learn best practices for front-end and Node.js code in containers.Complete Intro to Web Development, v2
More than an introduction, in this course you’ll go from building your first website to having the foundation for becoming a professional web developer!
Upcoming Workshops with Brian Holt
Complete Intro to React, v7
In this 2-day training, attendees will go from knowing nothing — or very little — about React to building a whole app using React and the surrounding tools in the React ecosystem.Complete Intro to Web Development, v3
Have you ever wanted to learn to write code or make your own website? If so this is the place to start. This workshop assumes no prior coding knowledge and will take you from knowing nothing how the code works or websites are made to writing your own sites in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js.
