Backend Web Development Course

About Course

During the 6 weeks (6 hours weekly) intensive Back-end web development program, you would learn how to use the JavaScript programming language for building server-side applications through writing clean, reusable codes, acquiring industry-standard skills and understanding the principles guiding programming as a whole.

By the end of this program, you would have been able to build secure full-stack applications in relation to design patterns and structures; model, store and perform CRUD operations in MongoDB; develop full-stack applications using JavaScript; consume and integrate third-party RESTful APIs in an application; deploy applications to the web using cloud-based hosting such as Netlify & Heroku; and clearly document and present the projects you have developed and deployed.
Week 1 – 4
Frontend vs Backend web development
Introduction to NodeJs & its asynchronous nature
The Event Queue / Event Loop
Node terminal vs REPL
NPM & package.json file
Package versioning and updating
Node core, custom & 3rd-party modules
Introduction to ExpressJS
Creating Express server for routing
Creating RESTful APIs
Using Postman/Thunder Client for handling HTTP requests for CRUD operations
Express Middlewares
Environment variables & setting up ESLint
Week 5 - 6
Introduction to MongoDB & Mongoose
Creating Mongo server and connecting using the mongo shell/Using ATLAS
Navigating the Mongo database
Using the compass GUI
Creating schemas for the database
User authentication & OAuth
Connecting the mongo/hosted database with the express server using Mongoose
Integrating the backend server with a React Application
Week 7 (Bonus)
Final full-stack project and presentation