Svelte.js & Firebase: Pokedex edition

Guillaume Duhan

CTO & Front-End Developer

Reviews

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Hasta ahora excelente

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This course is not for beginners. You have to have a good understanding of Svelte, components, and props as nothing is being explained here. I am not an expert in Firebase or Svelte, but I feel like the app structure is all over the place. If I leave this code for a week without looking at it, I won't understand what is going on or what does what. Take this course if you have a good understanding of frameworks and Firebase. Other than that, it is not the course for you to dip and try Svelte

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME OR MONEY! The course is basically covering how to code a very simple CRUD app with Pokémons. Kind of a to-do app with Pokémons instead of tasks. The app is poorly written in my opinion. Authors coding style and structure of this app are both inconsistent and overcomplicated, considering how small this project is. 1 Content of the course is disappointingly limited. Only a bunch of basic svelte and firebase functionalities are introduced. You could probably squeeze it into 20min tutorial. You will learn much more by reading svelte docs for 10 minutes. 2 Authors comments what is being written, but it is hard to call it an explanation. It is more of a voice-over of what you see on your screen. Sometimes it is hard to get where he is going with the code before he gets there. 3 The course doesn't have a good structure. Is is just an app being written feature by feature, it is not great for education purposes. I would be nice to have the course divided into some chapters / sections that would cover particular topics. 4 From a developer with 10y experience I would like to learn something that I can't learn by just reading the docs. Maybe something about structuring the project to make it scalable? 5 The course is bad for noobies because it lacks in explanation and offers bad code practices and boring for more advanced developers because it doesn't offer any interesting insights about neither svelte nor firebase. Author seems like a nice guy but I don't think he put enough effort preparing this tutorial. very disappointing :(

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I love this course.

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The code for this course is extremely convoluted, I mainly bough this course so I could get in the express lane for Svelte and Firebase, since it's a technology I would like to pursue for our company. I am a very experienced JavaScript developer, so I can tell this is poor practice. Why on earth would you have several calls to a database to fetch random Pokemon from a database, when you can simply query based on a set of id's? This to me demonstrates a lack of understanding of Firebase. There are also some very sloppy things that I noticed at the start, please bear in mind that I have not finished the video series yet, however I feel this should have been addressed much sooner. The brief amount of time it takes for the UI to recognize that a user is logged in (the auth state changes in the background) is very sloppy. I don't think this kind of thing should be in a course you pay for. This would be fine for a YouTube video, however for a premium course, this is bad. Perhaps a loading wrapper maybe? We should really be learning best practices for the industry when we watch videos like this. Very unimpressed and disappointed so far, I feel like I'm better off going out and learning this from scratch. Courses like this should help reduce the time developers need to learn a new technology, I don't feel this course has done that at all.

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