Hey friends! I thought you all might be interested in knowing that Frontend Masters has made two of my recent courses absolutely free for a limited time (one week)!

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frontendmasters.com/welcome/kentcdodds

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All you do is sign up for a free Frontend Masters account on that page, and you’ll get:

• Advanced React Patterns until 5/24
• Testing React Applications (with Jest & Cypress) until 5/24
• New workshops are free to watch in real-time
• You’ll gain access to special discounts and offers on memberships

Here’s the description for the courses:

Advanced React Patterns

Discover how to simplify your large React applications with advanced component patterns! In this course, Kent C. Dodds shows how to separate component logic, state and display properties to make your components more flexible and usable across large React applications. You’ll learn patterns like Compound Components, Render Props, Prop Getters, Controlled Props, and how to take advantage of React’s new Context API to share state throughout the application. This course is for developers who have experience building React applications and desire to scale their applications with components that are both simpler and more flexible!

Testing React Applications

Learn to catch errors before they reach the end user with automated tests! Write maintainable tests for your React applications using the popular Jest testing framework. You’ll also see how much of your code is covered in tests, test your React components with the react-testing library and write end-to-end tests with Cypress and the cypress-testing library. Join Kent and learn how to test your code in-depth. This course is for developers who want to gain confidence in shipping bug-free React applications to production!

I’m very grateful to Frontend Masters for making these courses available for free to you all. I know that not everyone can afford the cost of a Frontend Master Subscription, so I hope this helps to reach those of you who fall into this category.

FAQ: Here are some questions I expect some of you will probably ask me:

1. When exactly does the free status end? I’m not certain what time of day it will no longer be free on the 24th of May, so I suggest watching it sooner rather than later!
2. What happens if I’m too late? I’m afraid you’ll have to buy a subscription to Frontend Masters to watch. You could buy a $39 monthly subscription and cancel after watching all the content that you want. Also, I have a recording of the Advanced React Patterns course I gave at PayPal recently (Part 1, Part 2). Also check out workshop.me for opportunities to come to live workshops (there will even be a live online workshop added to that site soon!)
3. I already have a Frontend Masters Subscription. Well… That’s not a question, but a statement. Either way, good for you! You can watch it any time you like!
4. I have an egghead.io subscription, are your courses available on there as well? My Advanced React Component Patterns course is available on egghead.io. It’s slightly out of date, but I’ve finished uploading all the new videos and we’re just waiting on egghead.io to review and publish them. Should be pretty soon. The Testing React Applications course is NOT on egghead.io and though I’m planning a course now, it will be a while before it makes it to egghead.io. If you do have an egghead.io subscription and not a Frontend Masters subscription, then I highly recommend you take advantage of this free week so you can see what Frontend Masters is like.

Thanks friends! I appreciate all those who do buy subscriptions and pay for my material because it supports me (and Frontend Masters/egghead.io/etc) providing some of these resources for free, even if it is for a limited time.

Thanks! Here’s the link again in case you forgot. Now back to our regularly scheduled weekly emails! Talk to you Monday!