Learn to Build the Web
Hands-on courses with a live playground. No fluff, just real skills, real projects, and a certificate to prove it. Pay once, learn forever.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
h1 { color: #00bcd4; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello Merik!</h1>
</body>
</html>React: Components, State and Thinking in UI
The mental shift from editing the DOM to describing it. JSX, props, useState, lists and keys, and us...
Web Security Basics: Not Getting Owned
The handful of mistakes behind most real breaches: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, bad password storage an...
PHP & MySQL Fundamentals
Build dynamic server-side websites. Forms, databases, sessions, authentication, all from scratch....
Laravel: Your First Real Application
Move from single PHP files to a framework. Routing, controllers, Blade, Eloquent, migrations, valida...
Making Pages Fast on a Slow Connection
Performance for real conditions, not a fibre connection in a lab. Image weight, render blocking, laz...
Accessibility: Building Sites Everyone Can Use
Semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, real alt text, colour contrast and ARIA used correctly. Accessib...
TypeScript: Catching Bugs Before They Run
JavaScript with types, explained without the jargon. Annotations, interfaces, unions, optional value...
Writing Tests That Catch Real Bugs
Testing explained by what it buys you. What to test and what to skip, arrange-act-assert, testing da...
Tailwind CSS: Utility-First Without the Mess
Build interfaces fast with utility classes: spacing scale, flex and grid utilities, responsive and s...
Building APIs Other People Can Use
Design and build a JSON API properly: resource URLs, correct status codes, validation, authenticatio...
Regular Expressions Without the Headache
Patterns you will actually use: validating input, extracting data, search-and-replace across a whole...
Python for Automating the Boring Work
Turn repetitive tasks into scripts. Bulk-rename and organise files, read and write CSV and Excel, pu...
PHP Login Systems That Are Not a Liability
Sessions, password hashing, and the guard that actually protects a page. Built around the mistakes t...
Object-Oriented PHP: Code You Can Still Read Later
Classes, constructors, visibility, interfaces and dependency injection, explained by fixing a real p...
npm and the JavaScript Toolchain
What actually happens when you run npm install. package.json, semver ranges, lockfiles, scripts, aud...
Linux Servers: SSH, Permissions and Logs
Running the machine your site lives on. Connecting with SSH keys, understanding permissions properly...
Fetch and APIs: Getting Real Data Into Your Page
Every real app talks to a server. Learn fetch, JSON, async/await and (the part tutorials skip) what ...
Arrays and Objects: Shaping Data Like a Professional
map, filter, reduce and find, the four methods that replace almost every for loop you will ever writ...
Git Teamwork: Branches, Merges and Undoing Disasters
The Git you need once someone else is in the repo. Branching, pull requests, resolving conflicts by ...
Email That Actually Arrives
Why your password-reset email lands in spam or vanishes entirely. SMTP versus mail(), SPF, DKIM and ...
Database Design: Tables That Age Well
Choosing types, normalising without overdoing it, foreign keys, indexes that actually get used, and ...
Data Structures and Big-O Without the Maths Degree
Why some code is fast and some code dies at scale. Big-O in plain language, arrays versus maps and s...
CSS Grid: Two-Dimensional Layouts Without the Guesswork
Flexbox handles a line. Grid handles a page. Learn to place things in rows AND columns at the same t...
CSS Motion: Transitions and Animations That Feel Right
Hover effects, loading spinners and entrance animations, plus the two rules that separate smooth mot...
Node.js & Express Basics
Backend JavaScript. Build REST APIs, handle routes, connect to databases, deploy to the web....
Learn by Actually Building
Every lesson has a live code playground, read, code, see results instantly. No switching tabs, no setup.
Live Playground
Every lesson has HTML/CSS/JS editors with instant preview. Learn by doing, not just watching.
Pay Once, Own Forever
No monthly subscriptions. Pay once via Paystack, M-Pesa or Crypto. Yours forever.
Real Certificate
Complete a course and get a verifiable PDF certificate with a unique code anyone can check online.
Truly Global
Pay in your currency. Paystack handles conversions. M-Pesa for Kenya. Crypto for everyone.
Academy Questions
No questions match your search.
Ready to Start Learning?
Join students from around the world building real things with Merik Academy.