6 YouTube Channels to Follow as a Jr Web Developer
Six YouTube channels that helped me as a junior dev when paid 35-hour courses felt like too much. Free, messy, real code.
As a junior dev, my hardest problem was finding resources that matched how I learn. I wanted live code, not slides.
YouTube filled that gap. Paid platforms work too, but a 35-hour course that's outdated in six months never fit my attention span.
Here are six channels I kept coming back to.
Wes Bos builds small, practical projects. His JavaScript30 playlist is still a solid weekend workout. Channel
freeCodeCamp is huge and uneven in a good way. Long-form courses, different teachers, different styles. Channel
Traversy Media (Brad Traversy) was my default when I needed a crash course on Vue, Node, React, Rails, whatever was new that month. Channel
Programming with Mosh covers front and back end with clear pacing. Good when you're jumping stacks. Channel
CodingTheSmartWay leans full-stack with occasional ML tangents if that's your thing. Channel
The Net Ninja has been posting web dev tutorials for years. Node, React, Vue, Firebase, MongoDB. Consistent structure, easy to binge one topic. Channel
If you've got a channel that helped you early on, drop it in the comments. I'm always looking for new voices.