Tyler Mcginnis
Founder at ui.dev
Saint George, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarTyler Mcginnis is a founder and educator with 13 years of experience building developer-focused products and training, best known for creating Udacity’s React Nanodegree and founding ui.dev. He blends hands-on front-end engineering—especially React, routing, and Firebase auth—with curriculum design, shipping popular resources like usehooks.com and npmtrends.com. Based in Saint George, Utah, he leads a small team that produces pragmatic, production-ready learning materials and open-source tooling used widely by the React community. His GitHub history shows deep involvement in UI architecture, routing, and data-sync libraries (notably the Relay-inspired re-base) as well as contributions to the official React Router docs. Tyler pairs entrepreneurial product sense with day-to-day coding, often improving developer workflows and teaching patterns that reduce common onboarding friction.
13 years of coding experience
Spanish
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Github Skills (45)
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authentication10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
uidotdev/react-course
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Code for ui.dev's "Classic React" course
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 35 PRs, 248 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on developing the front-end components and structure for the React course. They implemented a navigation bar with a state management system, built a popular repositories table, and integrated a battle component. The user also incorporated features like a tooltip for providing more information and designed a responsive user interface, making use of various React concepts and UI design principles.
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tylermcginnis/react-router-firebase-auth
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Example of how to have protected routes with Firebase and React Router.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tyler contributed significantly to building out the front-end and back-end authentication and authorization features for the React application. They implemented user registration, login, and logout functionalities, integrating Firebase for authentication. The user modified routing and UI components to create protected routes, and a basic home page. Furthermore, they upgraded the React Router and React versions and refactored authentication with new syntax.
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