11 Best Frontend Courses for Beginners
We compared 11 Frontend courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $249.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including University of Washington 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
- 11
- Price range
- $19.99 – $249.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 11 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "frontend" 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 $19.99 to $249.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Front-End Web Development for Beginners
Offered by University of Washington
This beginner-friendly Specialization guides you through the essential skills of front-end web development. You’ll start by learning HTML and CSS to structure and style your pages, then move on to creating responsive lay...
$49.00listed price -
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JavaScript for Beginners
Offered by University of California, Davis
This course is designed for those who are new to JavaScript and want to build a solid foundation in web development. You'll learn the essentials of this popular programming language, enabling you to create interactive we...
$176.40listed price -
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React Fundamentals
Offered by Board Infinity
This react full course gives you a genuine react crash course experience, taking you from JavaScript fundamentals to building a complete React application. Start with Introduction to JavaScript Programming. You apply var...
$49.00listed price -
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The Complete Vue.js Course for Beginners
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
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Javascript - From Beginner to Pro-Build real world JS apps
*** Brand New Course Updated in Septemper 2017 *** *** More than 38,000 students. Students from over 167 countries. 5 star ratings and you can see what other students have to say in the review section. Stop Thinking! Tak...
$189.99listed price -
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React Js A-Z With Laravel - For Beginner to Advanced Level
This React Js A-Z With Laravel Course will help you to become a Full Stack Web DeveloperReact has rapidly become one of the most powerful tools for building Web Applications. Top sites using React include Facebook, Twitt...
$199.99listed price -
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The Complete Web Developer Masterclass: Beginner To Advanced
Have you always wanted to learn Web Development but you just don't know where to startOr maybe you have started but you just don't know howThen the Complete Web Developer Masterclass Beginner To Advanced is for YouWelcom...
$199.99listed price -
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An In-depth Introduction to React
Ready to truly understand React, not just use it? This comprehensive, hands-on course takes you from the fundamentals of building user interfaces with React to advanced concepts like custom hooks, refs, and performance o...
$39.99listed price -
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Complete HTML Tutorial from scratch
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 [update] this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standar...
$99.99listed price -
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Build a School Management System from Scratch PHP JS +MYSQL
In this course you will use HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. Although we will use all of these skills, no prior experience with them is needed. Mini project for final year students, School Management System with ba...
$19.99listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditHTML5 and CSS Fundamentals
Offered by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Learn how to build Web sites using HTML5 and basic CSS, directly from W3C, creator of the latest Web standards.
$249.00listed price
Best Frontend Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Front-End Web Development for Beginners | Coursera | University of Washington | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | JavaScript for Beginners | edX | University of California, Davis | $176.40 | View → |
| 3 | React Fundamentals | Coursera | Board Infinity | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | The Complete Vue.js Course for Beginners | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Javascript - From Beginner to Pro-Build real world JS apps | Udemy | — | $189.99 | View → |
| 6 | React Js A-Z With Laravel - For Beginner to Advanced Level | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 7 | The Complete Web Developer Masterclass: Beginner To Advanced | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 8 | An In-depth Introduction to React | Udemy | — | $39.99 | View → |
| 9 | Complete HTML Tutorial from scratch | Udemy | — | $99.99 | View → |
| 10 | Build a School Management System from Scratch PHP JS +MYSQL | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 11 | HTML5 and CSS Fundamentals | 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 11 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $249.00, with the middle of the range around $99.99 — a spread of $229.01. 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 Coursera, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Washington 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 18 September 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.