9 Best Frontend Development Courses on edX
We compared 9 Frontend Development courses currently listed on edX, priced from $30.00 to $1,075.50. 3 come from a named university or institution, including Davidson College, Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, Davis. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 9
- Price range
- $30.00 – $1,075.50
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "frontend development" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $30.00 to $1,075.50, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Web App Development for Data Scientists
Offered by Davidson College
This course focuses on the intersection of web development and data science, helping you build web applications tailored for data-driven projects. You'll learn practical skills that will enable you to design and deploy a...
$448.20listed price -
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Try It: Intro to HTML
Offered by Washington University in St. Louis
Get free instruction in HTML web development in this no-risk online course. Learn how HTML coding skills can boost your career or help your website function more efficiently. No previous experience required.
Price on site -
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Animation with JavaScript and jQuery
Offered by University of California, Davis
Learners will describe the top JavaScript libraries and differentiate which would work best to implement and accelerate development of web page animation.
$49.00listed price -
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Data Manipulation in JavaScript
Offered by University of California, Davis
This course is about learning methods for validating and handling data provided by users or coming from an external data source.
$49.00listed price -
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Front-End Web Developer
Offered by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
This course focuses on essential skills for anyone looking to become a front-end web developer. You'll explore key concepts in web development, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. By the end, you'll be equipped to build...
$1,075.50listed price -
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Building a Chatbot with Flask and OpenAI
Offered by CodeSignal
Build an AI-powered chatbot web application using Python, Flask, and the OpenAI API. Learn how to create a responsive chat interface, manage conversations, and connect frontend interactions to a backend chatbot service.
$60.00listed price -
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Introduction to Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
Offered by IBM
Learn the key tools and programming languages to bootstrap your career as a Cloud Developer. Get started with web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and GitHub.
$49.00listed price -
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Web Apps: Build an app
Offered by Microsoft
You'll gain a general understanding of web app concepts and begin developing foundational skills in this area.
$30.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditCSS Basics
Offered by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Learn how to take your Web pages from bland to bold with the power of CSS styling.
$249.00listed price
Best Frontend Development Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Web App Development for Data Scientists | edX | Davidson College | $448.20 | View → |
| 2 | Try It: Intro to HTML | edX | Washington University in St. Louis | — | View → |
| 3 | Animation with JavaScript and jQuery | edX | University of California, Davis | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Data Manipulation in JavaScript | edX | University of California, Davis | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Front-End Web Developer | edX | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | $1,075.50 | View → |
| 6 | Building a Chatbot with Flask and OpenAI | edX | CodeSignal | $60.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. | edX | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Web Apps: Build an app | edX | Microsoft | $30.00 | View → |
| 9 | CSS Basics | edX | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | $249.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 8 priced courses on this page run from $30.00 to $1,075.50, with the middle of the range around $60.00 — a spread of $1,045.50. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Davidson College, Washington University in St. Louis and University of California, Davis — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.