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 Never spend time on confusing, out of date, incomplete tutorials anymore!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 nodemodules_ 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!See you inside!