Steve Kinney
SendGrid
Steve is a principal front-end engineer at SendGrid. He is the director emeritus and founder of the front-end engineering program at the Turing School for Software and Design in Denver, Colorado — a non-profit developer training program. In a previous life, Steve was a New York City public school teacher. He taught special education and web development in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. He currently lives in Denver with his wonderful wife and rambunctious five-year-old.
Steve Kinney's Courses
AWS for Front-End Engineers (ft. S3, Cloudfront & Route 53)
Learn how to deploy your next passion project online or your organization's next-generation client-side application with Amazon Web Services like S3, Route 53, CloudFront, and much more!
Nodebots / Hardware
Learn control simple hardware devices, read data from sensors, or create IoT projects with Johnny-Five library for Node.js!Rapid Development on AWS: React, Node.js & GraphQL
Learn to build on AWS’ cloud services and its world-class infrastructure to easily add authentication, storage, databases, and APIs into your apps!JavaScript Performance
Write more efficient JavaScript, optimize rendering performance, load assets faster with a CDN, split loading resources with Webpack and more!Advanced State Management in React (feat. Redux and MobX)
Explore popular libraries to manage state including Flux, Redux, MobX, Redux Sagas, and more. Learning these patterns will help you leverage the best techniques for managing state in your React applications!Firebase + React: Real-time, Serverless Web Apps
Learn to use Firebase to deploy sophisticated web and mobile applications without having to build your own complex, server-side infrastructure.Build Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron
Build cross-platform desktop apps in JavaScript with Electron. Take your web development skills beyond the browser into building Mac and PC desktop apps!
Workshops with Steve Kinney
Electron v2
By developing a few desktop applications, learn to use Electron for building cross-platform desktop using web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).Firebase with React, v2
Develop web and mobile applications without having to build your own server-side. Firebase lets you grab critically important components like authentication, file storage, cloud functions, and a real-time database off the shelf to get you moving quickly on a world-class cloud infrastructure.