Top 5 YouTube Channels To Learn Web App Development

September 05, 2018

If you are someone who loves playing around with the code, particularly web related, you’re in huge luck! With so many web app development companies and various institutes offering online courses, learning to code is now easier than ever!

But wait for a second, there’s another great resource with a plethora of tutorials to help you master basic web development concepts, and then dive deep into more complex techniques.

That resource is YouTube and here we are going to tell you about the 5 best YouTube channels to develop your coding skills.

Derek Banas

The owner of this channel creates videos based on viewers demand. With over 900 videos and 770K subscribers, this channel covers almost every coding related topic you can imagine. The channel uploads new videos twice a week, one on Saturday and the other on Wednesday morning.

The owner also live streams several times a week to guide subscribers on the latest trends.

Tutorials on this channel primarily cover CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, and more.

Link to the channel: Derek Banas

Coding Train

This channel is all about publishing "creative coding" tutorials every week. There are over 700 videos on Coding Train with subjects comprising Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and GitHub. The interesting nature of videos on the channel has earned it over 432K subscribers.

One of the popular videos of Coding Train is the recreation of snake game using JS. This is sort of a challenge video where the owner has only 10 minutes to recreate the game, which he does successfully. The video has over 1.3M views and is a masterpiece of coding skills!

Link to the channel: Coding Train

Sentdex

Sentdex is Python-centric. It publishes tutorials on basics as well as advanced concepts of this programming language. With over 360K subscribers and 1K videos, the channel focuses on building various types of applications such as mobile applications, web application development, games, and more using Python.

One of the popular videos on Sentdex is a tutorial on web development in Django which has over 583K views!

Link to the channel: Sentdex

FreeCodeCamp

This channel is run by freeCodeCamp, an open source community which offers free programming courses. People of all age groups come to this channel to learn code with various techniques.

The channel has over 240K subscribers and 575 videos. The videos focus on covering React, JQuery, JavaScript, React, GitHub, live coding sessions, and more!

One of the popular videos of the channel is a tutorial on building a portfolio page which has over 226K views so far.

Link to the channel: FreeCodeCamp

Tree House

The Treehouse is about latest web technologies around. The channel publishes tutorials on building applications in HTML5, web development, web design, frontend/backend development and more.

We can also call Treehouse an online school which offers numerous courses on hundreds of tech topics. So far, the channel has published over 470 videos with a subscriber count of 172K.

Link to the channel: Treehouse