Here's what people say about our books:
Builder Book and SaaS Boilerplate.
With the help of our readers, we've solved over 500 issues and made over 1000 improvements/updates (commits) to both of our books (builderbook and saas).
Paul Parks
San Diego, CA
"I am primarily a backend engineer who has not been exposed to too much front end or web development. Builderbook has been a great resource that has allowed me to learn several frameworks and design patterns with ease."
Patrick Caughey
San Diego, CA
"The SaaS Boilerplate book has been super helpful. The first few chapters got me up and running very quickly, and as I re-read them I continued to learn more about the 'why' behind the decisions you made. It's been fun and quite informative!"
Aleksandrs Savkins
Riga, Latvia
"The book is exactly what I was looking for - I needed some guide that will cover the entire processes of creating web apps and saas. I didn't want to waste time and go through many guides, the book is a huge time saver!"
Jia Wang
Massachusetts, USA
"I want to thank you all for your effort to build up this fantastic project. It is really awesome for full-stack beginners! As one of them, I am using this project to build my own thing, during the implementation I learned a lot, and I might have gave up if I did not choose to purchase BUILDER BOOK! Deeply appreciate that!"
Igor Andreienko
Ukraine
"I decided to study the first book and then move on to the next one. The book is really well written, which makes it a joy to study. Thank you."
"I'm a backend developer and I was looking for something that brought me up to speed on how to deploy a production ready website. This was the first thing I found that fit the bill and seemed comprehensive enough."
Pavel Serafimovich
Russia
"This is a great book. Clear presentation style. The accompanying code is of very high quality. Your anti-monopoly ideology is also inspiring."
"I have a Wordpress dev job and it’s nearly impossible for me to get more experience with other technologies without projects like Builder Book. Everyone is doing video courses but I don’t have time to sit through videos. I love being able to read/skim and easily go back through chapters."
"Thanks again for everything in the book, and all the help in the GitHub. Really appreciate how much you've all done to make my company come to life."
Michael Stromer
New York, NY
"I found builder book using the first book's GitHub repo. From your first book, I was able to relaunch my website: https://michaelstromer.nyc. Thanks for making great content. I learned a lot in your second book, and am finishing up with the deployment this week."
Clayton Hanson
Charlotte, NC
"Builder Book helped me climb out of the Valley of Despair, which is the area between learning basic HTML and being able to code higher functions proficiently. It's rewarding work to get through each chapter and I can't wait to start the SaaS book."
"I have only just started to read the book. So far I am enjoying the content as it is clarifying the way many of these technologies required to build a web app works. Thus far it is very useful in saving me time without getting bogged down in the beginner details. "
"I couldn't find many full blown projects built with nextjs and material UI to learn from and your book helped me a lot in connecting the dots. The book could use some diagrams explaining how things integrate with each other and how data flows for a beginner like me. Overall the instructions has been clear and I have no trouble following."
Yannick Wiley
Erie, PA
"I’m a full stack developer and wanted to start to build an MVP to help generate some extra income and continue to build features on top of that. So I begin to search how I could do that using react and being able to render my data on the server side and your builder book product came up. And it attracted my attention, and wanted to try it out myself. So far I’m loving it."
"I found it very useful in helping to accelerate my next.js learning. I followed along with the book in building the sample app, and then used the async-labs/saas boilerplate to start a new app at my day job. The book definitely helped me get from 0 to 60 on next.js in a shot period of time, and I’m now feeling pretty comfortable with next.js. I also really like the hands on approach. Building a sample app is a great way to learn a new framework!"
Mamadou Diallo
New York, NY
"Basically the content is good and it's well explained and rich of quality. I learned some features that I was looking to get such as how to combine Express, Next and React as well as Material UI. In addition, I learned some features that I were missing such as how to send out a welcome email. This is a very good real world tutorial that I recommend to developers who are looking to improve their skills."
"Going through the book now and it’s excellent. I took a boot camp last year, but haven’t really coded since. It is a great refresher of concepts, and for the new things I’m learning, it explains it concisely! I’ll be using these concepts for a SaaS app that I’m building."
"I have been looking for such a book for a long time because every other course is teaching you how to build todo list apps that nobody cares about. So, thanks a lot for putting out such a resource."
"I've just read first and second chapters of your book. I think, section "Material-UI integration" in first chapter is too complicated. And it can scare away newbies like me. Reading this chapter requires a good understanding of how JSS, React-JSS and Material-UI works. Maybe, if "Material-UI integration" is not a very popular use case, then it can be described in additional materials or in the last chapters. Overall, I'm happy with the book so far."
"I was searching for async/await and found my way to the Async product which led to Builder Book. I'm about halfway through the book and finding it really helpful. Thank you for putting this together. "
Edward Danilyuk
Lancaster, PA
"The intro content along with how you broke things down step by step and didn’t assume I knew how to do something was great. The other great thing is you can pull out any piece (authentication, using the next framework, stripe integration) whatever - and use that piece of knowledge in your project as well."
"I found the reference of the book in the material-ui site. I think is a great job. Thanks for the effort."
Federico Sananes
Argentina
"I bought the book because I read the testimonials in your web and saw you were uploading everything to GitHub, that is so brave. You did and keep doing all this work and open-source it. I knew I could just read the code but wanted to support you too. I was searching node information to solve some things I needed to do for a freelance project."
Davi Jose
São Paulo, Brasil
"Acho que já escrevi um review, mas se for possível um novo comentário, até agora estou aprendendo muito, quero agradecer ao idealizadores do livro, maravilhoso."
Justin Cannon
San Francisco, CA
"I was actually pretty disappointed, not because I don't think you did a great job writing the book - but because I found that the Next framework abstracts way too much. I'm a fairly experienced developer and was looking for a deeper dive into many things that are just abstracted away by Next. But it does look like an excellent resource for more beginner developers!"
"Because I was a beginner(even now I'm a beginner), I had no idea about server-side and I thought examples would be helpful. I kept searching for examples on the internet and finally found the book on REACT homepage. Your book was well explained, so I could read it easily."
Jason Sprouse
Dallas, TX
"Builder Book is a labor of love. It's obvious that Tima, Kelly and Delgermurun are not only passionate about software development and architectural design, they are also committed to providing an exceptional learning experience to those who are fortunate enough to read Builder Book. It's stated very clearly in the books introduction, many times we pour over resources and learn a little here and there, but when it comes to organizing everything into a meticulous pattern great for referencing in a new build or elsewhere, there's just not much to rely on short of maybe, our browsers bookmarks. Builder Book excels where our browser's bookmark falls short."
Jacolby Green
Plano, TX
"This book is well written and precise. It is easy to understand and very useful. I was not aware of how to get React to render on the server before but I was introduced in this tutorial. One of the most useful things I have learned so far is how to integrate Material-UI with React on the client and server using Next.js."
Mirko Tebaldi
Ferrara, Italy
"I was sure it was too expensive but 1) good books require time, 2) I love the 'life time upgrade' plan, 3) the book is teaching about google auth, and this is precious. I already have some prototypes using SSR thanks to your book."
Manot Luijiu
Thailand
"Most other online courses taught me in 'dev environment' (can't use in real world). Therefore, they made me stuck in 'How to code in prod environment?'. Once I noticed that Builder Book will teach me about real production web app, I immediately purchased it."
Pham Minh Hung
HCMC, Vietnam
"Your book is amazing. I checked out two books published in 2018 (including BuilderBook) and I liked your book more since it covers things I like and it comes with the promise of updating the book regularly <= really like this."
Scott Horn
Bellevue, WA
"Builder book provides a great foundation for getting started with modern tools and showing reusable examples of gradual app development including login, debugging, logging and deployment."
Rick Hallett
United Kingdom
"Some of the code is challenging for a junior, but being stretched is a good experience. The authors have been particularly receptive to open-source issues and pull-requests; this latter point has made my experience a very worthwhile one. Strongly recommended to those going from junior to middleweight JavaScript developers."
Yuri Gor
Warsaw, Poland
"Material-UI + Next.js + NoSQL DB - it's exactly what I was trying to build by myself. Finally I found this blueprint project at github. I hope I will evolve the project into my own idea, in production! I highly recommend this book: it keeps good balance between detailed explanations and focus on the target, so you will not lose much time nor something important."
Derek Hammitt
Chicago, IL
"I'm in the exact place your book describes - feeling more and more comfortable with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, just getting started with React, building an API with Express, and struggling through my first full application. I've leaned Node and Express' docs, and MDN's Express tutorials. Your book is an awesome complement to those resources."
Karolis Stulgys
Sydney, Australia
"The SSR setup is crazy and I have no idea what's going on :) Other than that it's great."
Danh Nguyen
Portland, OR
"Very pleased with the book's detailed explanations of design choices and modern web app topics along with the tutorials. In the end you don't just complete the app -you become a far more knowledgeable developer overall."
Dion Pettaway
Columbia, SC
"As I'm someone who prefers reading to videos, I was hoping this book would be thorough and in depth. Happy to see that it was. I really like the explanations. It definitely solidified a few implementation things I never had a perfect grasp on (lightbulb moment for HOC even though I technically use them)."
Thierry Michel
Liège, Belgium
"The way this book breaks things down into steps and explains each chunk of code individually before putting it all together is really helpful. A good example is how they explain why material-ui does not work by default with server-side rendering, how we need to inject the styles and subsequently remove the server-side styles."
Peter Tahinduka
Uganda
"I had a job interview, and the required frameworks were ExpressJS and React. Through some googling, I landed on this project. I have never been more optimistic about a career as a JavaScript programmer...thanks to Builderbook and the team that put this together.."
Hemant Goyal
Alwar, India
"Builder Book is a super learning book that explains every corner of development with React. I highly recommend it to people."
Svitlana Shepitsena
Chicago, IL
"A clear explanation, possibility to see a result of your work step by step and finally get a real full-stack application makes programming a real joy. And the most important, this book pays special attention to a server-side rendering."
Sam Reaves
Atlanta, GA
"I often use Udemy for learning specific technologies, but ended up using Builder Book after being impressed with their brochure site being the actual project you build. The up to date, step by step instructions with Github made creating the app a breeze."
Nicola Niro
Malta
"I really like how the book explains everything and in depth, even JavaScript stuff, without leaving anything for granted. Do you have a book for the saas boilerplate as well?."
Umar Rana
United Arab Emirates
"It's a great book, but I am disappointed there is no user password authentication, most used authentication system."
Justin Collier
Lincoln, NE
"I was looking for help with getting started using Next + Jest and I found this book's instructions very easy to digest and use."
Owen Caulfield
Cardiff, CA
"Awesome full-stack tutorial that goes deep in-depth on a number of topics- this one stands above the crowd."
Kamil Latosiński
Warsaw, Poland
"Everyone knows the meme 'if the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic books'. This book is very different. It's not another to-do list but a comprehensive guide of how to build a real-life application. I haven't found a better resource (and trust me, I have tried a lot)."
Daniel Kapper
Washington, D.C.
"I have learned so much from this book. It has made me a better developer. I am so happy I found the project, and I highly recommend it!"
Louis Wong
United States
"I love project-based web development courses. Builder Book is a superb resource for learning how to build a full-stack project that you can actually make use of after all is said and done."
Genesis Gabiola
Central Luzon, Phillipines
"Builder Book teaches you the basic foundation of JavaScript up to the modern JavaScript concepts. Even a beginner without any code experience will be able to understand because of the well-explained examples."
Bolaji Ogidan
Lagos, Nigeria
"This book is insanely awesome for a developer that wants to master front-end engineering. The book is well structured and easy to understand."
Saul Ocampo
Chicago, IL
"Amazing book to expand your knowledge of building a full stack application. It connected many of the dots I was experiencing when building my own apps. I now see the power of Next and look forward to building further applications."
Vitaliy Starov
Moscow, Russia
"This book is very informative yet written in a friendly manner. Examples are easy to understand, and content is served in a learn-by-doing style."
Julian Mayorga
Mendoza, Argentina
"Builderbook is awesome. I love the fact that it goes beyond just building simple demos. It teaches you to build production apps. You learn to build the app that you use to read the book."
Josh Horwitz
Ann Arbor, MI
"I don't have a lot of experience with server-side rendered React, and Builder Book has taught me a lot about it in a short amount of time. I also never worked with Next.js, and this book has proved an invaluable resource."
Kevin Gómez
Medellin, Colombia
"There are tons of resources to learn React + Node, but none are like Builder Book. It's one of the best online resources to invest your money. You'll learn all you need to set up your React project following the 'learn by doing' principle."
Kingsley Silas
Lagos, Nigeria
"Builder Book takes you from the ground up to building an application. You implement all features yourself and even deploy it, giving you confidence to work on real world projects. I'm glad that concepts are explained simply."
"Great resource for learning an excellent suite of web technologies through a streamlined, hands-on process. No matter what background you come from, this book is an invaluable addition to your development arsenal."
Sam Baines
Midlands, UK
"Excellent book for anyone looking to develop react/next/web app skills, even a relative beginner. Perfect for learning, and you build an app that can actually have uses like project/game documentation etc."
Conor Brady
Dublin, Ireland
"It's a fantastic book that really gives you the opportunity to learn how to create a full application while going through the instrinic details as if they were separate applications."
Nick Isaacs
Bengaluru, India
"Really good book to help you learn React, as well as the entire stack to get a web app into production. The github project was really helpful as a reference."
Massimiliano Bertinetti
Turin, Italy
"This book teaches you to develop a professional project from start to end, with good references and a real product (the site for the book is the web app you develop). Really a good job!"
Charan Vinnakota
Bengaluru, India
"This book is a nice read, exactly what I was looking for! We need more books like these, especially when learning upcoming technologies like Material-UI and Next.js."
Ahsan Jamal
Karachi, Pakistan
"I'm a software engineer with basic knowledge of React. This book has advanced my skills in MERN stack development and taught me how React works with Material-UI, Stripe, Mailchimp, etc."
Steffani Brasil
Vancouver, BC
"I recommend this book to everyone who wants to understand how to build web applications with the latest technologies. The book has helped me achieve more solid knowledge of JavaScript."
Cherian Porter
Houston, TX
"I love that this book is so straightforward. It's also very helpful with screenshots! I have the basics down and can see that this book is my next step in learning web development."
Stanley Festus
Helsinki, Finland
"What I like most about this book is that everything is explained in a way that I know what every line of code is doing. Most tutorials assume too much, and readers tend to lose track at some point."
Michelle Garcia
Los Angeles, CA
"This book is giving me step-by-step, purposeful practice in building my first React app! I really appreciate the hands-on approach, as I think this is the best way to learn something new."
Rachel DiCesare
Fishkill, NY
"JavaScript can be a hard language. But reading this book certainly helps me understand JavaScript much better and how to build something awesome with it!"
Suresh Swamy
Wellington, New Zealand
"For those who want to build a complete, full-stack project using the MERN stack, this is a great resource. Particularly, the authentication using promise was highly useful."
Mohamed BinOthman
Chandigarh, India
"I'm a front-end developer and a teacher. This book is a very useful resource for me and my students. It's not like other books. It has a practical example and all principles that students need to build it."
Lester Infiesto
Central Visayas, Philippines
"Many online sources teach you to build things on a narrow vision, but this book gives you an excellent view of what you're actually building. Very helpful for developers of all levels."
Lily Barrett
Boston, MA
"I love the matter-of-fact, unpretentious tone of this book and the fact that an actual, tangible project (rather than just a “Hello World” website) awaits us at the end."
Ej Cruz
San Francisco, CA
"I'm going through tutorials from uDemy, Lynda, codeacademy, and my local community college. Though things do stick, a full scope is still kind of shaky. This book is something I've been needing!"
Quan Vu
New York, NY
"I’m currently a college senior, and I'm planning to join a web development team for a full-time position after graduation. So this book is a great resource for that purpose."
Rocio Roman
Los Angeles, CA
"As a student studying computer science, most of what we learn is theoretical. This book is the perfect guide to learn more about back-end, front-end, and how they all connect to make a responsive web app."
Fabrizio Filippini
Kansas City, MO
"I was looking to get into front-end and back-end development and this book gave me the perfect project to touch all aspects of web development. Great one-stop-shop learning tool!"
Noel Cutler
London, UK
"I completed a Girls First Coding Course where I learned HTML, CSS, and Javascript to build a basic website. I've wanted to build a web app next, and this book is a great guide to do so."
Taylor Cox
Tampa, FL
"While I went to a code boot camp, I don't have the opportunity to use more than HTML and CSS at work. This book helps me expand into new technologies and establish myself as not just a designer but a developer."
Rohan Paul
Kolkata, India
"This book is indeed what I was looking for, covering a production-grade web app from scratch. It's one of the greatest I have seen on the MERN stack. I want to convey a big thanks to the authors for writing it."
Salie Lie
Singapore
"This book is by far the best I've found on the MERN stack. It also covers testing. Very comprehensive book with explanations so that you actually understand what the code does."
Earl Lee
Washington, D.C.
"As a former engineer turned PM that's a few years removed from writing code, Builder Book has been a quick and convenient way to brush up on full-stack development and learn React for a side project."
Donald Pham
Toronto, Canada
"I use various online resources like udemy.com and acloud.guru for eLearning, but this book is the best thus far to get one up to speed with the necessary skill sets to immediately run a web application."