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hiteshchoudhary/chai-aur-react
chai aur react series on youtube
A companion repo for Hitesh Choudhary's Hindi-language React tutorial series on YouTube. Each folder is a self-contained project tied to a specific video lesson, progressing from a counter app through React Router, Context API, Redux Toolkit, and a full blog app backed by Appwrite. This is learning material, not a library or tool.
The project-per-lesson structure means you can clone one folder and run it without the rest of the repo getting in the way. The progression is sensible — hooks before context, context before Redux — so the concepts build on each other rather than dumping everything at once. The MegaBlog project (lesson 12) uses a real backend (Appwrite) with auth, file storage, and a rich-text editor, which is a more honest capstone than the usual counter-to-todo arc. The series also includes a custom React implementation from scratch, which is the kind of thing that separates people who understand JSX from people who just use it.
The repo has no tests anywhere — not even a smoke test — so learners finish the series without knowing how to test React components, which is a significant gap in professional readiness. The codebase is frozen by design (the README warns contributors not to update existing code so videos stay in sync), which means known issues or outdated patterns just sit there. Several projects still use the older CRA setup alongside Vite projects, creating inconsistency without explanation. The series appears to have stalled mid-2024 with the ongoing marker still in the README, so anyone following along may hit a cliff where the video content ends.