Complete NodeJS Developer (GraphQL, MongoDB, + more)

Just released with all new NodeJS best practices and trends! Join a live online community of over 900,000+ developers and a course taught by industry experts that have actually worked both in Silicon Valley and Toronto with NodeJS.

Using the latest version of Node, this course is focused on efficiency and turning you into a Back End or Fullstack developer. Never spend time on confusing, out of date, incomplete tutorials anymore! Graduates of Andrei’s courses are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, + other top tech companies for a reason.

We guarantee you this is the most comprehensive online resource on NodeJS. This project based course will introduce you to all of the modern toolchain of a Node JS developer. Along the way, we will build a massive NASA Space launch application using NodeJS, Express Framework, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and much more! This is going to be a Fullstack MERN app. We will also build many other mini projects along the way so you feel confident deploying any NodeJS project to production in the future by yourself!

All code is going to be provided step by step and even if you don’t like to code along, you will get access to all the code from the projects we build so anyone signed up for the course will have their own project to put on their portfolio right away.

The curriculum is going to be very hands on as we walk you from start to finish of releasing a professional (performant and secure) NodeJS project all the way into production. We will start from the very beginning by teaching you Node basics and then going into advanced topics so you can make good decisions on architecture and tools on any of your future NodeJS projects. The goal is to turn you into a senior backend developer!

Here is what the course will cover:

1. Foundations

• Focus on Node internals

• Libuv, threads, processes, event loop

• Asynchronous programming

• Node vs PHP vs Python

• Observer Design Pattern

• Event Emitters

2. Module System

• The require Function

• Creating Your Own Modules

• CommonJS vs ECMAScript (ES6) modules

• Module Caching

• Using index.js

3. Package Management

• NPM: The Node Package Manager

• Creating Your Own Packages

• Package And the NPM Registry

• Third Party Modules

• The node_modules Folder

• Semantic Versioning

• package-lock json And Versioning

• Vulnerabilities in Dependencies

4. File I/O: Planets Project

• Exploring Exoplanets With Node

• Exploring Kepler Space Telescope Data

• Working With Streams

• Streaming Large Data Files

• Parsing Our Planets Data

• Working With CSV Files

• Finding Habitable Planets

5. Web Servers

• What is a Web Server?

• HTTP Responses and Requests

• HTTP APIs and Routing, Parameterized URLs

• Same Origin Policy, CORS

• Requests and Responses as Streams

6. ExpressJS

• Express vs NextJS vs Koa

• Route Parameters

• Model View Controller (MVC) pattern

• Postman and Insomnia

• Development Dependencies

• Middleware

• Logging Middleware Example / Writing Our Own Middleware

• POST Requests in Express

• MVC In Express

• Express Routers

• RESTful APIs

• CRUD

• Sending Files

• Serving Websites With Node

• Templating Engines

7. NodeJS NASA Project

• Architecture diagrams on LucidChart

• GET, POST, DELETE routes.

• Serving ReactJS Applications in Express

• CORS middleware

• Models vs Controllers vs Routers

• Loading Data On Startup

• Automating Full Stack Applications With NPM

• Serving React Front End (in Production)

• Logging Requests with Morgan

• Serving Applications With Client Side Routing

• Building A Data Access Layer

• Integrating with Frontend, Top Down Approach, Bottom Up Approach

• Updating Our Architecture

8. Testing APIs

• Unit tests vs API tests vs UI tests

• Testing Node APIs with Jest and Supertest

9. Improving Node Performance

• Example app which blocks event loop + real life blocking functions

• Node Cluster Module theory + in action

• Clustering in the real world

• Load balancing

• PM2 theory + in action

• Managing Live Clusters with PM2

• Zero Downtime Restarts

• Improving Performance of NASA Project

• Stateless APIs

• Node Worker Threads

10. Databases

• Using MongoDB to add persistence to NASA Project

• Big focus on NoSQL vs SQL, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB, when to use both including Trends, Object-Relational Mismatch, ACID, References, Schemas. Schema-less vs Schemas

• MongoDB Atlas

• Horizontally Scaling Databases

• Mongoose

• Mongoose Models vs MVC Models

• ObjectIDs in MongoDB

• Pagination

• Choosing A Database For Our NASA API

11. Working With REST APIs

• Demonstrate integrating with a REST API by working with SpaceX API

• Versioning REST APIs

• Running Search Queries

• SpaceX Launch Data

• Mapping API Data to Our Database

• Using Paginated APIs

• Adding Pagination To Our API

12. Authentication

• Focus on Security first principles with JWT, cookies, CSRF

• Servers with HTTPS and SSL / TLS

• HelmetJS

• Working With Auth0

13. Deployment and CI/CD

• Focus on building out a simple CI pipeline for NASA Project on GitHub

• What is CI vs CD?

• Automated tests

• Dynamic configuration with secrets

14. Node Production and the Cloud (AWS)

• Deploy to production with Docker to Amazon EC2

• Virtual Machines

• Serverless vs Containers

• Docker files

• Managing Docker Containers and Images

• Working With SSH

• Production Deployment with PM2 and Mongo Atlas

15. GraphQL

• GraphQL vs REST

• Building a GraphQL API

16. Sockets (WebSockets, Socket io)

• Sockets overview

• Sockets vs polling

• WebSockets (vs Socket io)

• Socket io Client and Server APIs

• Broadcasting Events

• Build out Full Stack Multiplayer Pong with Sockets

• Implementing Pong Game Logic

• Using Socket io With Express.js

• Namespaces and Rooms

17-20.  Bonus Sections on Deno, Advanced Asynchronous JavaScript, SQL, and TypeScript!

This course is not about making you just code along without understanding the principles so that when you are done with the course you don’t know what to do other than watch another tutorial. No! This course will push you and challenge you to go from an absolute beginner in NodeJS to someone that is in the top 10% of NodeJS backend developers. 

We guarantee you this is the most comprehensive online course on NodeJS! Have a look at the course outline video to see all the topics we are going to cover, all the projects we’re going to build, and all the techniques you’re going to learn to become a top Node developer!

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