React JS - Build A Streaming Service
One project, start to finish: a Netflix-style React app with real movie data, global state, lazy loading, and a live deploy.
Every React beginner builds a to-do list. Almost nobody hires because of one. What gets attention is an app that looks like something people already use, and nothing is more instantly recognizable than a streaming service. Dark UI, rows of posters, a featured banner, search that actually finds things. Show someone that with your name on the URL and the conversation changes.
That is the entire course: one real build, from empty folder to deployed app.
The build order mirrors real work
You start by building every page as static components: the login page, the user selection page, the template layout, header, side nav, featured media, the poster rows, the account section, and a search modal. Then you deploy that shell to Netlify early, which is exactly how I want you thinking about projects, live first, perfect later.
The second half wires everything up, and it is the longest part of the course by far. Global state with the Context API. Users saved to local storage with real login and authentication checks. Then The Movie DB API comes in and the app starts breathing: dynamic media rows, an individual page for every movie, similar titles and cast, genre navigation for movies and TV, random featured content, and a working search. Along the way you pick up habits that separate professional builds from tutorial code, like skeleton thumbnails while data loads, lazy loaded components, and committing your changes as you go. There is even a lesson dedicated to hunting down a data update bug, because real builds have those.
What you walk away with
A deployed, portfolio-ready app, and something better underneath it: the experience of watching a large component tree get refactored as requirements grow. Three components get merged into one dynamic MediaRow mid-course because the duplication stopped making sense. That kind of decision is what working on a real team feels like, and you rarely see it happen in courses.
If you want the full career track around this kind of project work, the React JS Job Ready course is the bigger path, and React JS Til Infinity covers the fundamentals this course assumes.
What you'll learn
- ✓ Build the app shell page by page, including login, user selection, header, and side nav
- ✓ Manage global state across the app with the Context API
- ✓ Save users to local storage and check authentication state
- ✓ Pull live movie and TV data from The Movie DB API
- ✓ Build skeleton loaders, placeholders, and lazy loaded components
- ✓ Create dynamic routes for movies, TV, genres, and individual titles
- ✓ Deploy the app to Netlify, first for staging and then with real data
Course Curriculum
5 sections
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First Section
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Building Pages
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Deploy For Staging
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Build The Logic Of The APP
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Before you start
- ✓ React basics, meaning components, props, and state. This is a build course, not an introduction to React
