Mastering Full Stack JavaScript for High-Demand Tech Roles
You’re caught in the squeeze. Demand for full stack developers is at an all-time high, yet competition is fiercer than ever. You’ve tried tutorials, frameworks, and fragmented resources, but you still don’t feel confident building complete applications from scratch - the kind that impress hiring managers, pass technical screens, and command six-figure salaries. Most learning paths leave you stuck in tutorial hell, repeating syntax without real understanding. You memorise code but can’t design systems. You understand pieces, but not how they fit together in production-grade environments. That uncertainty is costing you offers, promotions, and leverage. Mastering Full Stack JavaScript for High-Demand Tech Roles is engineered for professionals who are done guessing. This isn’t theory or toy projects. It’s a battlefield-tested, outcome-driven curriculum that transforms your coding ability into production-ready software engineering mastery. In 8 weeks, developers like you have gone from uncertain to delivering full-stack applications that pass senior engineer review. One recent learner, a self-taught developer in Lagos, rebuilt a fintech SaaS platform using the system taught here - and landed a remote senior role at a Berlin-based startup with a 220% salary increase. This course closes the gap between knowing JavaScript and being trusted to architect, build, deploy, and maintain high-performance applications in real organisations. You’ll gain fluency across frontend interfaces, backend logic, database systems, authentication, APIs, deployment pipelines, and real-world scalability patterns. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced. Immediate Access. Lifetime Learning.
This course is fully self-paced with on-demand access. There are no fixed start dates, no deadlines, and no pressure to keep up. You progress at your own speed, revisiting concepts as needed, while maintaining complete control over your schedule. Most learners complete the core curriculum in 6–10 weeks with consistent effort. Many report building their first full-stack MVP within 14 days. Because each module is tightly scoped and outcome-focused, you start applying what you learn immediately - even before finishing the course. You receive lifetime access to all materials. This includes every update, enhancement, and new tool integration released in the future - at no additional cost. As JavaScript evolves, your certification stays current. The platform is mobile-friendly and accessible 24/7 from any device, anywhere in the world. Whether you’re studying during commute breaks, after work, or on weekends, your progress is always preserved with full sync across devices. Unlimited Support. Real Guidance. Zero Risk.
You’re not alone. Throughout the course, you receive direct guidance from senior JavaScript engineers with years of experience at top-tier tech organisations. Instructor support is available for all technical roadblocks, architectural decisions, and code reviews within the course environment. Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognised credential verified by employers from Silicon Valley to Singapore. This certification validates your end-to-end competency and is shareable on LinkedIn, resumes, and job applications. Pricing is simple, straightforward, and transparent. There are no hidden fees, subscriptions, or surprise charges. One payment grants complete access to the full curriculum, updates, support, and certification. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal - all processed securely with end-to-end encryption. Your payment information is never stored or shared. If at any point you feel this course isn’t delivering the clarity, depth, or career value you expected, you’re covered by our 30-day satisfied or refunded guarantee. If you complete the first three modules in full and don’t feel significantly more confident building full-stack applications, we’ll refund your investment - no questions asked. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access details and login instructions will be delivered separately once your course environment is fully configured, ensuring a seamless and reliable onboarding experience. This works even if you’ve struggled with asynchronous JavaScript before, if you’ve never touched Node.js, or if you’re transitioning from a non-technical role. Our learners include QA analysts, graphic designers, DevOps engineers, and career-changers who now work as full stack developers - many without formal computer science degrees. One graduate in Toronto had failed three junior developer interviews before enrolling. After completing the API design and authentication modules, he rebuilt his portfolio with a secure job board application. He passed the next technical interview on the first try and received two competing offers. With risk eliminated, clarity maximised, and every technical gap addressed, you’re equipped to advance - whether that means landing a new role, earning a promotion, or building your own product.
Module 1: Foundations of Modern JavaScript - Syntax and execution context in ES2023+
- Variables, scoping, hoisting, and temporal dead zones
- Primitives vs objects and type coercion rules
- Arrow functions and lexical 'this' binding
- Template literals and tagged templates
- Destructuring arrays and objects
- Rest and spread operators in data manipulation
- Object property shorthand and computed keys
- Default parameter values and argument handling
- Closures and private data patterns
- Immediately invoked function expressions (IIFEs)
- Call, apply, and bind methods for context control
- Constructor functions and prototype chains
- Classes: syntax, inheritance, and static methods
- Private class fields and encapsulation
- Getters and setters in object interfaces
- Error types and structured exception handling
- Custom error creation and handling strategies
- Regular expressions for validation and parsing
- Working with JSON: parsing and serialisation
- ECMAScript modules vs CommonJS
- Named and default exports and imports
- Dynamic imports and code splitting
- Module resolution strategies in Node.js
- Top-level await in module contexts
Module 2: Frontend Engineering with Modern React - React component architecture: functional vs class
- JSX syntax and transpilation process
- Props drilling and prop validation
- State management with useState hook
- Side effects and lifecycle control with useEffect
- Conditional rendering patterns
- List rendering with keys and performance
- Controlled vs uncontrolled components
- Form handling and validation in React
- Custom hooks: design and reuse principles
- useContext for global state distribution
- useReducer for complex state logic
- Ref forwarding and DOM access patterns
- Performance optimisation with React.memo
- useCallback and useMemo for efficiency
- Error boundaries and fallback UI
- Code splitting and lazy loading components
- Suspense for asynchronous rendering
- Strict mode and development safeguards
- React Router v6: navigation and routes
- Nested routes and dynamic parameters
- Programmatic navigation and route guards
- Layout components and route organisation
- CSS modules and scoped styling
- Styled-components and design tokens
- CSS-in-JS and theming system implementation
- Responsive design strategies in component layout
- Accessibility: ARIA labels and semantic markup
- Testing components with Jest and React Testing Library
- Unit testing hooks and utility functions
- Mocking API calls in test environments
Module 3: Backend Development with Node.js and Express - Node.js architecture and event loop mechanics
- Global objects and process management
- Event-driven programming with EventEmitter
- File system operations: read, write, streams
- Path and URL module utilities
- HTTP module for native server creation
- Express.js: middleware architecture
- Request and response object manipulation
- Routing with RESTful conventions
- Route parameters and query parsing
- Middleware chaining and error handling
- Custom middleware for authentication and logging
- Using Morgan and Winston for logging
- Environment variables with dotenv
- Configuration management across environments
- Error handling best practices in Express
- Structured JSON responses and API consistency
- Rate limiting and API protection
- CORS configuration for frontend integration
- Gzip compression for performance
- Helmet.js for security hardening
- API versioning strategies
- Request validation with JOI and Zod
- Input sanitisation and XSS prevention
- Asynchronous error handling in middleware
Module 4: Database Design and Integration with MongoDB and PostgreSQL - Relational vs NoSQL database selection criteria
- MongoDB document structure and BSON
- CRUD operations in MongoDB with native driver
- Indexing strategies for performance
- Aggregation pipelines for data transformation
- Atlas cluster setup and cloud connectivity
- Connection pooling and resource efficiency
- Mongoose ODM: schema definition
- Validation, defaults, and virtuals in Mongoose
- Middleware hooks: pre and post save
- Population for relational data in NoSQL
- Transaction support in MongoDB
- PostgreSQL setup and psql basics
- Table design with primary and foreign keys
- Indexes, constraints, and query optimisation
- SQL injection prevention with parameterisation
- Sequelize ORM: model definition
- Associations: hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo
- Migrations and seeders for schema evolution
- Query building with Sequelize methods
- Raw query execution when needed
- Database connection pooling and health checks
- Backup and restore strategies
- Choosing the right database per use case
- Data modelling for scalability
- Denormalisation trade-offs in high-read systems
Module 5: Authentication, Authorisation, and Security - Email and password authentication flow
- Password hashing with bcrypt
- Salting strategies and cost factors
- JWT structure and token payload design
- Signing and verifying tokens with crypto
- Token expiration and refresh mechanisms
- Secure cookie setup with SameSite and HttpOnly
- Session storage vs stateless JWT
- OAuth2.0 flow for third-party login
- Google, GitHub, and Facebook integration
- Passport.js strategy configuration
- Role-based access control (RBAC) implementation
- Policy-based authorisation for granular control
- CSRF protection in stateful applications
- Input sanitisation with DOMPurify
- CORS policy for origin safety
- HSTS and secure headers enforcement
- Rate limiting per user or IP
- Brute force protection with lockout policies
- Security headers: Content-Security-Policy
- XSS, SQLi, and NoSQLi prevention patterns
- Secrets management and environment isolation
- Two-factor authentication integration
- JWT blacklist for logout functionality
- Secure password reset workflows
- Account verification with email tokens
Module 6: API Design and Development - RESTful principles and resource naming
- HTTP methods and status code mapping
- Request and response structure standards
- Versioning API endpoints
- Query parameters for filtering and pagination
- Limit and offset vs cursor-based pagination
- Rate limiting by endpoint
- API documentation with OpenAPI 3.0
- Interactive docs using Swagger UI
- Postman collection generation
- Error response standardisation
- Logging API calls for audit and debug
- GraphQL vs REST decision matrix
- GraphQL schema definition (SDL)
- Resolvers for query and mutation handling
- Query complexity and depth limiting
- GraphQL subscriptions for real-time updates
- Apollo Server implementation
- Client-side queries with Apollo Client
- Relay-style connections for pagination
- Nested query optimisation with DataLoader
- API gateway patterns for microservices
- Caching strategies: in-memory and Redis
- Response compression and payload size
- Webhooks implementation for event delivery
Module 7: Testing and Debugging Full Stack Applications - Jest configuration and test runners
- Unit testing pure functions and utilities
- Mocking dependencies with Jest spies
- Integration testing API endpoints
- Supertest for HTTP assertion
- Testing database interactions
- Test database seeding and teardown
- End-to-end testing with Playwright
- Page object model for maintainable tests
- Headless browser automation
- Testing authentication flows
- Snapshot testing for UI components
- Testing React components in isolation
- Code coverage reporting and thresholds
- Debugging Node.js with Inspector
- Chrome DevTools for backend inspection
- Logging levels and structured output
- Performance profiling with built-in tools
- Error tracking with Sentry integration
- Handling uncaught exceptions and rejections
- Assertion libraries: Chai, Expect, and Assert
- Test-driven development workflow
- Behaviour-driven development syntax
- Automated test runs in CI pipelines
- Golden path testing for critical workflows
Module 8: Real-Time Applications with WebSockets and Socket.IO - WebSocket protocol fundamentals
- Client-server bidirectional communication
- Socket.IO server setup and configuration
- Room and namespace architecture
- Event emission and listening patterns
- Authentication for WebSocket connections
- Handling disconnections and reconnection
- Message queuing for reliability
- Rate limiting socket events
- Broadcasting to rooms and individual clients
- Real-time chat application implementation
- Live dashboard updates with streaming data
- Typing indicators and presence detection
- Binary data transfer with WebSockets
- Scaling Socket.IO with Redis adapter
- Latency monitoring and packet loss
- Client-side socket management in React
- Error handling in persistent connections
- Heartbeats and connection validation
- Graceful shutdown procedures
Module 9: DevOps and Continuous Integration - Git workflows: feature branches and rebasing
- Conventional commit standards
- GitHub pull request best practices
- CI/CD pipeline structure
- GitHub Actions for automation
- Linting with ESLint in pipeline
- Formatting with Prettier
- Running tests in CI environment
- Dependency audit with npm audit
- Secrets masking in logs
- Build status checks and merge restrictions
- Automated deployment triggers
- Environment promotion workflows
- Rollback strategies for failed releases
- Blue-green deployment patterns
- Canary releases with traffic splitting
- Infrastructure as code basics
- Docker containerisation of Node.js apps
- Dockerfile optimisation for Node
- Docker Compose for multi-service apps
- Container security scanning
- Image tagging and versioning
- Kubernetes basics for orchestration
- Health checks and liveness probes
Module 10: Deployment and Cloud Infrastructure - Static hosting with Netlify and Vercel
- Server deployment on Render and Railway
- Setting up EC2 instances on AWS
- SSH key management and secure access
- Reverse proxy with Nginx
- SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt
- Domain configuration and DNS records
- Environment-specific deployment
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Monitoring with application performance tools
- Logging aggregation with CloudWatch
- Alerting on error spikes and latency
- Scaling vertically and horizontally
- Load testing with Artillery
- Stress testing API endpoints
- Cost optimisation in cloud environments
- Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda
- API Gateway integration
- Environment variables in cloud platforms
- Database backup scheduling
- Disaster recovery planning
- Multi-region deployment considerations
- Content delivery networks for assets
- Edge functions for logic at the edge
- Cost estimation and billing alerts
Module 11: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Syntax and execution context in ES2023+
- Variables, scoping, hoisting, and temporal dead zones
- Primitives vs objects and type coercion rules
- Arrow functions and lexical 'this' binding
- Template literals and tagged templates
- Destructuring arrays and objects
- Rest and spread operators in data manipulation
- Object property shorthand and computed keys
- Default parameter values and argument handling
- Closures and private data patterns
- Immediately invoked function expressions (IIFEs)
- Call, apply, and bind methods for context control
- Constructor functions and prototype chains
- Classes: syntax, inheritance, and static methods
- Private class fields and encapsulation
- Getters and setters in object interfaces
- Error types and structured exception handling
- Custom error creation and handling strategies
- Regular expressions for validation and parsing
- Working with JSON: parsing and serialisation
- ECMAScript modules vs CommonJS
- Named and default exports and imports
- Dynamic imports and code splitting
- Module resolution strategies in Node.js
- Top-level await in module contexts
Module 2: Frontend Engineering with Modern React - React component architecture: functional vs class
- JSX syntax and transpilation process
- Props drilling and prop validation
- State management with useState hook
- Side effects and lifecycle control with useEffect
- Conditional rendering patterns
- List rendering with keys and performance
- Controlled vs uncontrolled components
- Form handling and validation in React
- Custom hooks: design and reuse principles
- useContext for global state distribution
- useReducer for complex state logic
- Ref forwarding and DOM access patterns
- Performance optimisation with React.memo
- useCallback and useMemo for efficiency
- Error boundaries and fallback UI
- Code splitting and lazy loading components
- Suspense for asynchronous rendering
- Strict mode and development safeguards
- React Router v6: navigation and routes
- Nested routes and dynamic parameters
- Programmatic navigation and route guards
- Layout components and route organisation
- CSS modules and scoped styling
- Styled-components and design tokens
- CSS-in-JS and theming system implementation
- Responsive design strategies in component layout
- Accessibility: ARIA labels and semantic markup
- Testing components with Jest and React Testing Library
- Unit testing hooks and utility functions
- Mocking API calls in test environments
Module 3: Backend Development with Node.js and Express - Node.js architecture and event loop mechanics
- Global objects and process management
- Event-driven programming with EventEmitter
- File system operations: read, write, streams
- Path and URL module utilities
- HTTP module for native server creation
- Express.js: middleware architecture
- Request and response object manipulation
- Routing with RESTful conventions
- Route parameters and query parsing
- Middleware chaining and error handling
- Custom middleware for authentication and logging
- Using Morgan and Winston for logging
- Environment variables with dotenv
- Configuration management across environments
- Error handling best practices in Express
- Structured JSON responses and API consistency
- Rate limiting and API protection
- CORS configuration for frontend integration
- Gzip compression for performance
- Helmet.js for security hardening
- API versioning strategies
- Request validation with JOI and Zod
- Input sanitisation and XSS prevention
- Asynchronous error handling in middleware
Module 4: Database Design and Integration with MongoDB and PostgreSQL - Relational vs NoSQL database selection criteria
- MongoDB document structure and BSON
- CRUD operations in MongoDB with native driver
- Indexing strategies for performance
- Aggregation pipelines for data transformation
- Atlas cluster setup and cloud connectivity
- Connection pooling and resource efficiency
- Mongoose ODM: schema definition
- Validation, defaults, and virtuals in Mongoose
- Middleware hooks: pre and post save
- Population for relational data in NoSQL
- Transaction support in MongoDB
- PostgreSQL setup and psql basics
- Table design with primary and foreign keys
- Indexes, constraints, and query optimisation
- SQL injection prevention with parameterisation
- Sequelize ORM: model definition
- Associations: hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo
- Migrations and seeders for schema evolution
- Query building with Sequelize methods
- Raw query execution when needed
- Database connection pooling and health checks
- Backup and restore strategies
- Choosing the right database per use case
- Data modelling for scalability
- Denormalisation trade-offs in high-read systems
Module 5: Authentication, Authorisation, and Security - Email and password authentication flow
- Password hashing with bcrypt
- Salting strategies and cost factors
- JWT structure and token payload design
- Signing and verifying tokens with crypto
- Token expiration and refresh mechanisms
- Secure cookie setup with SameSite and HttpOnly
- Session storage vs stateless JWT
- OAuth2.0 flow for third-party login
- Google, GitHub, and Facebook integration
- Passport.js strategy configuration
- Role-based access control (RBAC) implementation
- Policy-based authorisation for granular control
- CSRF protection in stateful applications
- Input sanitisation with DOMPurify
- CORS policy for origin safety
- HSTS and secure headers enforcement
- Rate limiting per user or IP
- Brute force protection with lockout policies
- Security headers: Content-Security-Policy
- XSS, SQLi, and NoSQLi prevention patterns
- Secrets management and environment isolation
- Two-factor authentication integration
- JWT blacklist for logout functionality
- Secure password reset workflows
- Account verification with email tokens
Module 6: API Design and Development - RESTful principles and resource naming
- HTTP methods and status code mapping
- Request and response structure standards
- Versioning API endpoints
- Query parameters for filtering and pagination
- Limit and offset vs cursor-based pagination
- Rate limiting by endpoint
- API documentation with OpenAPI 3.0
- Interactive docs using Swagger UI
- Postman collection generation
- Error response standardisation
- Logging API calls for audit and debug
- GraphQL vs REST decision matrix
- GraphQL schema definition (SDL)
- Resolvers for query and mutation handling
- Query complexity and depth limiting
- GraphQL subscriptions for real-time updates
- Apollo Server implementation
- Client-side queries with Apollo Client
- Relay-style connections for pagination
- Nested query optimisation with DataLoader
- API gateway patterns for microservices
- Caching strategies: in-memory and Redis
- Response compression and payload size
- Webhooks implementation for event delivery
Module 7: Testing and Debugging Full Stack Applications - Jest configuration and test runners
- Unit testing pure functions and utilities
- Mocking dependencies with Jest spies
- Integration testing API endpoints
- Supertest for HTTP assertion
- Testing database interactions
- Test database seeding and teardown
- End-to-end testing with Playwright
- Page object model for maintainable tests
- Headless browser automation
- Testing authentication flows
- Snapshot testing for UI components
- Testing React components in isolation
- Code coverage reporting and thresholds
- Debugging Node.js with Inspector
- Chrome DevTools for backend inspection
- Logging levels and structured output
- Performance profiling with built-in tools
- Error tracking with Sentry integration
- Handling uncaught exceptions and rejections
- Assertion libraries: Chai, Expect, and Assert
- Test-driven development workflow
- Behaviour-driven development syntax
- Automated test runs in CI pipelines
- Golden path testing for critical workflows
Module 8: Real-Time Applications with WebSockets and Socket.IO - WebSocket protocol fundamentals
- Client-server bidirectional communication
- Socket.IO server setup and configuration
- Room and namespace architecture
- Event emission and listening patterns
- Authentication for WebSocket connections
- Handling disconnections and reconnection
- Message queuing for reliability
- Rate limiting socket events
- Broadcasting to rooms and individual clients
- Real-time chat application implementation
- Live dashboard updates with streaming data
- Typing indicators and presence detection
- Binary data transfer with WebSockets
- Scaling Socket.IO with Redis adapter
- Latency monitoring and packet loss
- Client-side socket management in React
- Error handling in persistent connections
- Heartbeats and connection validation
- Graceful shutdown procedures
Module 9: DevOps and Continuous Integration - Git workflows: feature branches and rebasing
- Conventional commit standards
- GitHub pull request best practices
- CI/CD pipeline structure
- GitHub Actions for automation
- Linting with ESLint in pipeline
- Formatting with Prettier
- Running tests in CI environment
- Dependency audit with npm audit
- Secrets masking in logs
- Build status checks and merge restrictions
- Automated deployment triggers
- Environment promotion workflows
- Rollback strategies for failed releases
- Blue-green deployment patterns
- Canary releases with traffic splitting
- Infrastructure as code basics
- Docker containerisation of Node.js apps
- Dockerfile optimisation for Node
- Docker Compose for multi-service apps
- Container security scanning
- Image tagging and versioning
- Kubernetes basics for orchestration
- Health checks and liveness probes
Module 10: Deployment and Cloud Infrastructure - Static hosting with Netlify and Vercel
- Server deployment on Render and Railway
- Setting up EC2 instances on AWS
- SSH key management and secure access
- Reverse proxy with Nginx
- SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt
- Domain configuration and DNS records
- Environment-specific deployment
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Monitoring with application performance tools
- Logging aggregation with CloudWatch
- Alerting on error spikes and latency
- Scaling vertically and horizontally
- Load testing with Artillery
- Stress testing API endpoints
- Cost optimisation in cloud environments
- Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda
- API Gateway integration
- Environment variables in cloud platforms
- Database backup scheduling
- Disaster recovery planning
- Multi-region deployment considerations
- Content delivery networks for assets
- Edge functions for logic at the edge
- Cost estimation and billing alerts
Module 11: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Node.js architecture and event loop mechanics
- Global objects and process management
- Event-driven programming with EventEmitter
- File system operations: read, write, streams
- Path and URL module utilities
- HTTP module for native server creation
- Express.js: middleware architecture
- Request and response object manipulation
- Routing with RESTful conventions
- Route parameters and query parsing
- Middleware chaining and error handling
- Custom middleware for authentication and logging
- Using Morgan and Winston for logging
- Environment variables with dotenv
- Configuration management across environments
- Error handling best practices in Express
- Structured JSON responses and API consistency
- Rate limiting and API protection
- CORS configuration for frontend integration
- Gzip compression for performance
- Helmet.js for security hardening
- API versioning strategies
- Request validation with JOI and Zod
- Input sanitisation and XSS prevention
- Asynchronous error handling in middleware
Module 4: Database Design and Integration with MongoDB and PostgreSQL - Relational vs NoSQL database selection criteria
- MongoDB document structure and BSON
- CRUD operations in MongoDB with native driver
- Indexing strategies for performance
- Aggregation pipelines for data transformation
- Atlas cluster setup and cloud connectivity
- Connection pooling and resource efficiency
- Mongoose ODM: schema definition
- Validation, defaults, and virtuals in Mongoose
- Middleware hooks: pre and post save
- Population for relational data in NoSQL
- Transaction support in MongoDB
- PostgreSQL setup and psql basics
- Table design with primary and foreign keys
- Indexes, constraints, and query optimisation
- SQL injection prevention with parameterisation
- Sequelize ORM: model definition
- Associations: hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo
- Migrations and seeders for schema evolution
- Query building with Sequelize methods
- Raw query execution when needed
- Database connection pooling and health checks
- Backup and restore strategies
- Choosing the right database per use case
- Data modelling for scalability
- Denormalisation trade-offs in high-read systems
Module 5: Authentication, Authorisation, and Security - Email and password authentication flow
- Password hashing with bcrypt
- Salting strategies and cost factors
- JWT structure and token payload design
- Signing and verifying tokens with crypto
- Token expiration and refresh mechanisms
- Secure cookie setup with SameSite and HttpOnly
- Session storage vs stateless JWT
- OAuth2.0 flow for third-party login
- Google, GitHub, and Facebook integration
- Passport.js strategy configuration
- Role-based access control (RBAC) implementation
- Policy-based authorisation for granular control
- CSRF protection in stateful applications
- Input sanitisation with DOMPurify
- CORS policy for origin safety
- HSTS and secure headers enforcement
- Rate limiting per user or IP
- Brute force protection with lockout policies
- Security headers: Content-Security-Policy
- XSS, SQLi, and NoSQLi prevention patterns
- Secrets management and environment isolation
- Two-factor authentication integration
- JWT blacklist for logout functionality
- Secure password reset workflows
- Account verification with email tokens
Module 6: API Design and Development - RESTful principles and resource naming
- HTTP methods and status code mapping
- Request and response structure standards
- Versioning API endpoints
- Query parameters for filtering and pagination
- Limit and offset vs cursor-based pagination
- Rate limiting by endpoint
- API documentation with OpenAPI 3.0
- Interactive docs using Swagger UI
- Postman collection generation
- Error response standardisation
- Logging API calls for audit and debug
- GraphQL vs REST decision matrix
- GraphQL schema definition (SDL)
- Resolvers for query and mutation handling
- Query complexity and depth limiting
- GraphQL subscriptions for real-time updates
- Apollo Server implementation
- Client-side queries with Apollo Client
- Relay-style connections for pagination
- Nested query optimisation with DataLoader
- API gateway patterns for microservices
- Caching strategies: in-memory and Redis
- Response compression and payload size
- Webhooks implementation for event delivery
Module 7: Testing and Debugging Full Stack Applications - Jest configuration and test runners
- Unit testing pure functions and utilities
- Mocking dependencies with Jest spies
- Integration testing API endpoints
- Supertest for HTTP assertion
- Testing database interactions
- Test database seeding and teardown
- End-to-end testing with Playwright
- Page object model for maintainable tests
- Headless browser automation
- Testing authentication flows
- Snapshot testing for UI components
- Testing React components in isolation
- Code coverage reporting and thresholds
- Debugging Node.js with Inspector
- Chrome DevTools for backend inspection
- Logging levels and structured output
- Performance profiling with built-in tools
- Error tracking with Sentry integration
- Handling uncaught exceptions and rejections
- Assertion libraries: Chai, Expect, and Assert
- Test-driven development workflow
- Behaviour-driven development syntax
- Automated test runs in CI pipelines
- Golden path testing for critical workflows
Module 8: Real-Time Applications with WebSockets and Socket.IO - WebSocket protocol fundamentals
- Client-server bidirectional communication
- Socket.IO server setup and configuration
- Room and namespace architecture
- Event emission and listening patterns
- Authentication for WebSocket connections
- Handling disconnections and reconnection
- Message queuing for reliability
- Rate limiting socket events
- Broadcasting to rooms and individual clients
- Real-time chat application implementation
- Live dashboard updates with streaming data
- Typing indicators and presence detection
- Binary data transfer with WebSockets
- Scaling Socket.IO with Redis adapter
- Latency monitoring and packet loss
- Client-side socket management in React
- Error handling in persistent connections
- Heartbeats and connection validation
- Graceful shutdown procedures
Module 9: DevOps and Continuous Integration - Git workflows: feature branches and rebasing
- Conventional commit standards
- GitHub pull request best practices
- CI/CD pipeline structure
- GitHub Actions for automation
- Linting with ESLint in pipeline
- Formatting with Prettier
- Running tests in CI environment
- Dependency audit with npm audit
- Secrets masking in logs
- Build status checks and merge restrictions
- Automated deployment triggers
- Environment promotion workflows
- Rollback strategies for failed releases
- Blue-green deployment patterns
- Canary releases with traffic splitting
- Infrastructure as code basics
- Docker containerisation of Node.js apps
- Dockerfile optimisation for Node
- Docker Compose for multi-service apps
- Container security scanning
- Image tagging and versioning
- Kubernetes basics for orchestration
- Health checks and liveness probes
Module 10: Deployment and Cloud Infrastructure - Static hosting with Netlify and Vercel
- Server deployment on Render and Railway
- Setting up EC2 instances on AWS
- SSH key management and secure access
- Reverse proxy with Nginx
- SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt
- Domain configuration and DNS records
- Environment-specific deployment
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Monitoring with application performance tools
- Logging aggregation with CloudWatch
- Alerting on error spikes and latency
- Scaling vertically and horizontally
- Load testing with Artillery
- Stress testing API endpoints
- Cost optimisation in cloud environments
- Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda
- API Gateway integration
- Environment variables in cloud platforms
- Database backup scheduling
- Disaster recovery planning
- Multi-region deployment considerations
- Content delivery networks for assets
- Edge functions for logic at the edge
- Cost estimation and billing alerts
Module 11: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Email and password authentication flow
- Password hashing with bcrypt
- Salting strategies and cost factors
- JWT structure and token payload design
- Signing and verifying tokens with crypto
- Token expiration and refresh mechanisms
- Secure cookie setup with SameSite and HttpOnly
- Session storage vs stateless JWT
- OAuth2.0 flow for third-party login
- Google, GitHub, and Facebook integration
- Passport.js strategy configuration
- Role-based access control (RBAC) implementation
- Policy-based authorisation for granular control
- CSRF protection in stateful applications
- Input sanitisation with DOMPurify
- CORS policy for origin safety
- HSTS and secure headers enforcement
- Rate limiting per user or IP
- Brute force protection with lockout policies
- Security headers: Content-Security-Policy
- XSS, SQLi, and NoSQLi prevention patterns
- Secrets management and environment isolation
- Two-factor authentication integration
- JWT blacklist for logout functionality
- Secure password reset workflows
- Account verification with email tokens
Module 6: API Design and Development - RESTful principles and resource naming
- HTTP methods and status code mapping
- Request and response structure standards
- Versioning API endpoints
- Query parameters for filtering and pagination
- Limit and offset vs cursor-based pagination
- Rate limiting by endpoint
- API documentation with OpenAPI 3.0
- Interactive docs using Swagger UI
- Postman collection generation
- Error response standardisation
- Logging API calls for audit and debug
- GraphQL vs REST decision matrix
- GraphQL schema definition (SDL)
- Resolvers for query and mutation handling
- Query complexity and depth limiting
- GraphQL subscriptions for real-time updates
- Apollo Server implementation
- Client-side queries with Apollo Client
- Relay-style connections for pagination
- Nested query optimisation with DataLoader
- API gateway patterns for microservices
- Caching strategies: in-memory and Redis
- Response compression and payload size
- Webhooks implementation for event delivery
Module 7: Testing and Debugging Full Stack Applications - Jest configuration and test runners
- Unit testing pure functions and utilities
- Mocking dependencies with Jest spies
- Integration testing API endpoints
- Supertest for HTTP assertion
- Testing database interactions
- Test database seeding and teardown
- End-to-end testing with Playwright
- Page object model for maintainable tests
- Headless browser automation
- Testing authentication flows
- Snapshot testing for UI components
- Testing React components in isolation
- Code coverage reporting and thresholds
- Debugging Node.js with Inspector
- Chrome DevTools for backend inspection
- Logging levels and structured output
- Performance profiling with built-in tools
- Error tracking with Sentry integration
- Handling uncaught exceptions and rejections
- Assertion libraries: Chai, Expect, and Assert
- Test-driven development workflow
- Behaviour-driven development syntax
- Automated test runs in CI pipelines
- Golden path testing for critical workflows
Module 8: Real-Time Applications with WebSockets and Socket.IO - WebSocket protocol fundamentals
- Client-server bidirectional communication
- Socket.IO server setup and configuration
- Room and namespace architecture
- Event emission and listening patterns
- Authentication for WebSocket connections
- Handling disconnections and reconnection
- Message queuing for reliability
- Rate limiting socket events
- Broadcasting to rooms and individual clients
- Real-time chat application implementation
- Live dashboard updates with streaming data
- Typing indicators and presence detection
- Binary data transfer with WebSockets
- Scaling Socket.IO with Redis adapter
- Latency monitoring and packet loss
- Client-side socket management in React
- Error handling in persistent connections
- Heartbeats and connection validation
- Graceful shutdown procedures
Module 9: DevOps and Continuous Integration - Git workflows: feature branches and rebasing
- Conventional commit standards
- GitHub pull request best practices
- CI/CD pipeline structure
- GitHub Actions for automation
- Linting with ESLint in pipeline
- Formatting with Prettier
- Running tests in CI environment
- Dependency audit with npm audit
- Secrets masking in logs
- Build status checks and merge restrictions
- Automated deployment triggers
- Environment promotion workflows
- Rollback strategies for failed releases
- Blue-green deployment patterns
- Canary releases with traffic splitting
- Infrastructure as code basics
- Docker containerisation of Node.js apps
- Dockerfile optimisation for Node
- Docker Compose for multi-service apps
- Container security scanning
- Image tagging and versioning
- Kubernetes basics for orchestration
- Health checks and liveness probes
Module 10: Deployment and Cloud Infrastructure - Static hosting with Netlify and Vercel
- Server deployment on Render and Railway
- Setting up EC2 instances on AWS
- SSH key management and secure access
- Reverse proxy with Nginx
- SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt
- Domain configuration and DNS records
- Environment-specific deployment
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Monitoring with application performance tools
- Logging aggregation with CloudWatch
- Alerting on error spikes and latency
- Scaling vertically and horizontally
- Load testing with Artillery
- Stress testing API endpoints
- Cost optimisation in cloud environments
- Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda
- API Gateway integration
- Environment variables in cloud platforms
- Database backup scheduling
- Disaster recovery planning
- Multi-region deployment considerations
- Content delivery networks for assets
- Edge functions for logic at the edge
- Cost estimation and billing alerts
Module 11: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Jest configuration and test runners
- Unit testing pure functions and utilities
- Mocking dependencies with Jest spies
- Integration testing API endpoints
- Supertest for HTTP assertion
- Testing database interactions
- Test database seeding and teardown
- End-to-end testing with Playwright
- Page object model for maintainable tests
- Headless browser automation
- Testing authentication flows
- Snapshot testing for UI components
- Testing React components in isolation
- Code coverage reporting and thresholds
- Debugging Node.js with Inspector
- Chrome DevTools for backend inspection
- Logging levels and structured output
- Performance profiling with built-in tools
- Error tracking with Sentry integration
- Handling uncaught exceptions and rejections
- Assertion libraries: Chai, Expect, and Assert
- Test-driven development workflow
- Behaviour-driven development syntax
- Automated test runs in CI pipelines
- Golden path testing for critical workflows
Module 8: Real-Time Applications with WebSockets and Socket.IO - WebSocket protocol fundamentals
- Client-server bidirectional communication
- Socket.IO server setup and configuration
- Room and namespace architecture
- Event emission and listening patterns
- Authentication for WebSocket connections
- Handling disconnections and reconnection
- Message queuing for reliability
- Rate limiting socket events
- Broadcasting to rooms and individual clients
- Real-time chat application implementation
- Live dashboard updates with streaming data
- Typing indicators and presence detection
- Binary data transfer with WebSockets
- Scaling Socket.IO with Redis adapter
- Latency monitoring and packet loss
- Client-side socket management in React
- Error handling in persistent connections
- Heartbeats and connection validation
- Graceful shutdown procedures
Module 9: DevOps and Continuous Integration - Git workflows: feature branches and rebasing
- Conventional commit standards
- GitHub pull request best practices
- CI/CD pipeline structure
- GitHub Actions for automation
- Linting with ESLint in pipeline
- Formatting with Prettier
- Running tests in CI environment
- Dependency audit with npm audit
- Secrets masking in logs
- Build status checks and merge restrictions
- Automated deployment triggers
- Environment promotion workflows
- Rollback strategies for failed releases
- Blue-green deployment patterns
- Canary releases with traffic splitting
- Infrastructure as code basics
- Docker containerisation of Node.js apps
- Dockerfile optimisation for Node
- Docker Compose for multi-service apps
- Container security scanning
- Image tagging and versioning
- Kubernetes basics for orchestration
- Health checks and liveness probes
Module 10: Deployment and Cloud Infrastructure - Static hosting with Netlify and Vercel
- Server deployment on Render and Railway
- Setting up EC2 instances on AWS
- SSH key management and secure access
- Reverse proxy with Nginx
- SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt
- Domain configuration and DNS records
- Environment-specific deployment
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Monitoring with application performance tools
- Logging aggregation with CloudWatch
- Alerting on error spikes and latency
- Scaling vertically and horizontally
- Load testing with Artillery
- Stress testing API endpoints
- Cost optimisation in cloud environments
- Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda
- API Gateway integration
- Environment variables in cloud platforms
- Database backup scheduling
- Disaster recovery planning
- Multi-region deployment considerations
- Content delivery networks for assets
- Edge functions for logic at the edge
- Cost estimation and billing alerts
Module 11: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Git workflows: feature branches and rebasing
- Conventional commit standards
- GitHub pull request best practices
- CI/CD pipeline structure
- GitHub Actions for automation
- Linting with ESLint in pipeline
- Formatting with Prettier
- Running tests in CI environment
- Dependency audit with npm audit
- Secrets masking in logs
- Build status checks and merge restrictions
- Automated deployment triggers
- Environment promotion workflows
- Rollback strategies for failed releases
- Blue-green deployment patterns
- Canary releases with traffic splitting
- Infrastructure as code basics
- Docker containerisation of Node.js apps
- Dockerfile optimisation for Node
- Docker Compose for multi-service apps
- Container security scanning
- Image tagging and versioning
- Kubernetes basics for orchestration
- Health checks and liveness probes
Module 10: Deployment and Cloud Infrastructure - Static hosting with Netlify and Vercel
- Server deployment on Render and Railway
- Setting up EC2 instances on AWS
- SSH key management and secure access
- Reverse proxy with Nginx
- SSL/TLS with Let's Encrypt
- Domain configuration and DNS records
- Environment-specific deployment
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
- Monitoring with application performance tools
- Logging aggregation with CloudWatch
- Alerting on error spikes and latency
- Scaling vertically and horizontally
- Load testing with Artillery
- Stress testing API endpoints
- Cost optimisation in cloud environments
- Serverless architecture with AWS Lambda
- API Gateway integration
- Environment variables in cloud platforms
- Database backup scheduling
- Disaster recovery planning
- Multi-region deployment considerations
- Content delivery networks for assets
- Edge functions for logic at the edge
- Cost estimation and billing alerts
Module 11: Performance Optimisation and Scalability - Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Critical rendering path optimisation
- Lazy loading images and components
- Tree shaking and bundle analysis
- Webpack configuration for production
- Vite for high-speed tooling
- Server-side rendering with Next.js
- Static site generation vs SSR
- ISR for hybrid rendering
- Image optimisation and next-gen formats
- Code minification and compression
- Preloading and prefetching resources
- Database query optimisation
- Index usage and execution plans
- Caching with Redis for database queries
- In-memory caching strategies
- Redis as session store
- CDN caching headers and edge rules
- API response caching with ETag
- Rate limiting with token bucket
- Load balancing with multiple instances
- Database read replicas for scaling
- Connection pooling tuning
- Memory leak detection and fixing
- CPU profiling for bottlenecks
- Garbage collection monitoring
Module 12: Project Architecture and Engineering Best Practices - Monolithic vs microservices trade-offs
- Layered architecture: controller, service, data
- Clean code principles and naming conventions
- Single responsibility and separation of concerns
- Dependency injection patterns
- Configuration management across environments
- Feature flag implementation
- API contract design and versioning
- Documentation with JSDoc and Swagger
- Design patterns: factory, singleton, observer
- Repository pattern for data access
- Service layer abstraction
- Error handling across layers
- Logging correlation IDs
- Tracing requests in distributed systems
- Code review checklists
- Peer review culture and feedback
- Technical debt tracking
- Refactoring strategies
- Monitoring tech debt in CI
- Architectural decision records (ADRs)
- Onboarding documentation for team handoff
- Repository structure standards
- README-driven development
- Contribution guidelines for open source
Module 13: Capstone Project: Full Stack SaaS Application - Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation
Module 14: Career Advancement, Certification, and Next Steps - Building a standout portfolio website
- Highlighting full stack projects effectively
- Writing technical project descriptions
- Optimising LinkedIn for developer roles
- Tailoring resumes for full stack positions
- Preparing for technical interviews
- Whiteboard problem-solving frameworks
- System design interview preparation
- Explaining architecture decisions clearly
- Handling live coding assessments
- Answering behavioural questions with impact
- Asking insightful questions in interviews
- Negotiating offers and compensation
- Freelancing vs full-time employment paths
- Contributing to open source projects
- Speaking at meetups and conferences
- Writing technical blog posts
- Creating educational content
- Building a personal brand as a developer
- Joining private engineering communities
- Continued learning with advanced patterns
- Maintaining certification validity
- Accessing exclusive alumni resources
- Receiving job placement insights
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Defining project scope and MVP features
- Designing the database schema
- Wireframing UI components
- Creating a task management system
- User onboarding and welcome flow
- Secure authentication with email verification
- Password reset and account recovery
- Dashboard with real-time updates
- Role-based permission system
- Team collaboration interface
- File and document upload system
- Progress tracking with status updates
- Activity feed and notifications
- Calendar integration with time blocking
- Reporting and analytics dashboard
- Exporting data to CSV and PDF
- Search with full-text indexing
- Auto-suggestions and keyboard navigation
- Dark mode and UI preferences
- Responsive design for mobile
- Accessibility: keyboard and screen reader
- API documentation endpoint
- Health check and status page
- Deployment to production environment
- Performance audit and final optimisation