Josh W. Comeau

Montreal developer-educator behind CSS for JavaScript Developers and The Joy of React

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About Josh W. Comeau

Josh W. Comeau is a front-end developer and educator based in Montreal, Canada. After working as a software engineer at companies including Khan Academy, DigitalOcean and Gatsby, he went independent to teach web development full time.

He is known for highly interactive, playful lessons: his blog posts and courses are full of live demos, sliders and embedded playgrounds that let readers poke at concepts directly. His self-published courses CSS for JavaScript Developers, The Joy of React and Whimsical Animations have been taken by tens of thousands of developers.

Josh builds his own course platform and is often cited as an example of how a single developer can run a premium education business by investing deeply in craft. He has moved his social presence from X to Bluesky.

Products by Josh W. Comeau

CSS for JavaScript Developers

css-for-js.dev

Interactive course that builds a robust mental model of CSS.

The Joy of React

joyofreact.com

Interactive course for learning React from the ground up.

Whimsical Animations

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

Course on building delightful web animations and interactions.

How Josh builds

Build a mental model, not a list of memorized rules.
Interactive demos teach faster than static text.
Invest in craft; quality is the marketing.

Learn from Josh W. Comeau

[course]Paid

CSS for JavaScript Developers

Self-paced, interactive CSS course for developers who know JavaScript.

by Josh W. Comeau

[course]Paid

The Joy of React

Interactive React course with exercises and projects.

by Josh W. Comeau

[course]Paid

Whimsical Animations

Learn to craft playful animations and micro-interactions.

by Josh W. Comeau

[newsletter]Free

Josh W. Comeau's blog and newsletter

Free, deeply interactive articles on CSS, React and animation.

by Josh W. Comeau

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Who is Josh W. Comeau?

Josh W. Comeau is a Montreal-based front-end developer and educator who created the courses CSS for JavaScript Developers, The Joy of React and Whimsical Animations.