Coding Addict

Coding Addict is the YouTube channel of John Smilga, a web developer and course creator who teaches on Udemy and other platforms. Alongside his paid courses, he publishes long, free tutorials here.

The videos cover modern web development: JavaScript, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Git and cloud tools such as AWS. Many are full courses running for several hours, built around small projects that are coded live from start to finish. There are also short “Javascript Nuggets” that explain one feature at a time. The style is calm and methodical, with little chat and lots of typing.

Some highlights include:

A full React course that builds a series of projects, teaching how modern web interfaces are put together.

A practical introduction to TypeScript, showing how adding types to JavaScript helps catch mistakes early.

A course on the Next.js framework, used to build fast websites and web apps.

The channel has around 199,000 subscribers.

Coding Addict is for students who already know a little programming and want to build real things. The tools it teaches are used every day by professional web developers. That makes it a direct route into software engineering and front-end or full-stack development, and the long project videos give an honest sense of what the work involves. A sensible approach is to pick one course, code along with every step and then change the project to make it your own. That habit of building and adapting is exactly how professional developers learn new tools.