# Kent C. Dodds Kent C. Dodds is a software engineer and educator, one of the best-known teachers in the JavaScript and React space. He created Testing Library (React Testing Library and its family), whose "test the way your software is used" philosophy became the de facto standard for frontend testing. His courses include Testing JavaScript, Epic React, and EpicWeb.dev; his current teaching focus, under the "Better with Kent" / Epic AI banner, covers AI-assisted development, [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]], and agentic workflows. He previously worked at PayPal and on the Remix web framework team, and now runs his education business full time. Relevant here: in June 2026 he weighed in on the [[Loop Engineering]] wave with a video arguing he had evolved into the practice naturally over months, and offering a pragmatic approach to it. His framing is typical of his teaching style: durable skills over hype, workflow evolution over buzzwords. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Kent C. Dodds]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Kent C. Dodds]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Loop Engineering]] ## References - https://kentcdodds.com - Loop engineering post: https://x.com/kentcdodds/status/2069510257525874923