Build and deploy a real application on the App Router — async request APIs, streaming, caching and the deploy that follows.
44% of the running time is hands-on — projects and quizzes rather than video.
Model a real product with the App Router — layouts, nested routes and route groups that are still readable at fifty pages.
params, searchParams, cookies and headers are all promises in Next.js 16. Handle them correctly instead of chasing the errors later.
Place the boundary on evidence — bundle size and interaction cost — rather than on habit.
Put Suspense where it pays off, so the fast half of a page paints immediately instead of waiting on the slow half.
Bundle analysis, hydration mismatches, and finding the render you did not expect.
Ship it, roll it back, and know afterwards whether it actually got faster.
Every figure below is summed from the lesson list, not estimated — so the chart and the curriculum can never disagree.
| Content type | Minutes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Video lessons | 498 | 55.7% |
| Hands-on projects | 370 | 41.4% |
| Quizzes | 26 | 2.9% |
44% of this course is hands-on.
5 sections · 25 lessons · 15h total
The mental model first: what runs where, and when.
Layouts, groups, parallel routes and the file conventions worth knowing.
The part everyone gets wrong twice before getting it right.
Make the fast part fast and stop waiting on the slow part.
Deploy, observe, roll back, repeat.
Principal engineer · ex-platform lead at Northwind
Maya has spent eleven years on the boring half of frontend: the render path, the cache, the deploy. She teaches the way she reviews code — by asking what happens on the slow connection, on the old phone, on the day the API is down. Her courses ship a real repository, not a starter kit, and every lesson ends with something running.
Built the checkout that still handles 40k orders an hour.
Moved 240 engineers onto a single React build without a freeze week.
Consulting on render performance for retail and media teams.
31,000 learners and a 4.8 average across three titles.
3,626 ratings from people who bought this course.
3,626 ratings
The caching module alone was worth the price. I had been guessing for eight months and I stopped guessing in an afternoon. The bit where she deliberately breaks revalidation and then reads the logs to find it is the best teaching I have seen on this.
I came in already using the App Router at work and still learned a lot, mostly about what I had been doing for no reason. The async request API section saved me a day on the 16 upgrade.
Excellent, though the last project assumes more comfort with SQL than the description suggests. I paused and did the Postgres course first, came back, and it clicked. Docking a star for the prerequisite, not the teaching.
Same category first, then whatever pairs well with it.
FrontendTypes that catch real bugs and stay out of the way — for codebases with more than one author.
FrontendThe boundary, the payload and the render — what actually happens between the server and the browser.
DesignModern layout, custom properties and container queries — the browser is the framework now.
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