Top 5 YouTube channels for Web Developers – 2016-17

Technology changes very fast and we have to keep updated with it by learning new things. When it’s about web development, training videos are the best resources to quickly learn new stuff. With that in mind, I decided to update my Top 5 YouTube channels list for web developers. Although the previous list is still under consideration for the same.

Please note that this selection of YouTube channels is based on my own experience. The playlists I have picked for every channel are just the ones that I viewed completely. Although there is a lot to learn from all these channels, I have just covered up the information here that I was in need to study.

So here we go :

1. David Connelly

URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidjconnelly

For those who work on the PHP platform and are interested in learning something new with PHP frameworks, this channel is for you. It includes frameworks like Codeigniter, Slim, Yii2, etc. The just love the way how Mr.David Connely teaches us in every video. It’s fun to learn every time. Also, the hard work he has done is simply amazing and inspiring. He did put videos about building Online Shop using Codeigniter which had 135 videos which is quite challenging.

2. DevTips

URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners

DevTips uploads weekly videos on the subject of web design and development. Each video quickly covers a topic to help us all become more awesome on the internet. In general, this is a most interesting channel for every web development nerd. They even publish regular vlogs which include Google office tours, Future of Web Design Conference, Interviews with Google manager,s etc.

Some of my favorite playlists are as below:

• Learn jQuery in 15 minutes
• Git for noobs
• Git Atom
• Parallax on the Web
• How to build a responsive website from start to finish

3. LevelUpTuts

URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/LevelUpTuts

Building websites is frustrating, or at least it can be. Level Up Tutorials sets how to help fix a major problem in learning technologies. The lack of in-depth, basic tutorials that teach more than just what to type when. Videos created for Level Up Tutorials are aimed to be accessible and easy to follow while maintaining high production values.

My favorite pick of playlists are as below:

• Sass tutorials
• Sublime Text Tutorials
• Android development tutorials
• WordPress basics
• Customizing WordPress

4. Traversy Media

URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb

Traversy Media features the best online web development and programming tutorials for all of the latest web technologies including Node.js, Angular 2, React.js, PHP, Rails, HTML, CSS, and much more.

I came to know about this channel just 2 months ago and immediately I decided to add it to one of my favorite channels. My favorite pick of playlists from this channel is huge but I will point out the top 5 from those.

• Build An HTML5 Template With Bootstrap & SASS
• WordPress Theme Development
• Learning React.js
• Angular 2 Tutorials
• Codeigniter App Tutorial

5. Codecourse

URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy

Codecourse is a channel created by the founders of codecourse.com who also provides a premium package which unlocks some more accessibility to their videos. But we will talk about the one on YouTube only 🙂

The reason I considered including this channel in this list is that I am mainly a core PHP developer. I have built so many custom PHP-based websites in my entire career that I had to even build my own CMS to speed up the workflow. This channel provides mostly PHP-based videos only and that caught my interest. The playlists I liked the most are as below:

• PHP Best Practices
• Learn Regular Expression
• Social Network with PHP
• Dropbox API & PHP
• Create a URL Shortener With API in PHP

Hope you liked this list. Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments below.