Overview

Take your JavaScript skills to the server-side! Learn how to fully craft your site's backend using Express, the most popular back-end JavaScript framework! You will also learn how to use a non-relational database, MongoDB.

Introduction to NodeJS

In this section you'll learn what NodeJS is and get your first taste of writing server-side JavaScript.

1. Introduction: What is NodeJs
2. Getting Started
3. Debugging Node
4. Project: Basic Informational Site

MongoDB

In this section you'll learn about creating and querying a MongoDB database, as well as the differences between relational databases and a NoSQL option like MongoDB.

1. Introduction to MongoDB

Express & Mongoose

Here we finally get to Express, the most popular back-end JavaScript framework, and learn to build applications with MongoDB using Mongoose.

1. Introduction to Express
2. Express 101
3. Express 102: CRUD and MVC
4. Preparing for Deployment
5. Project: Mini Message Board
6. Express 103: Routes and Controllers
7. Express 104: View Templates
8. Project: Express 105: Forms and Deployment
9. Project: Inventory Application

Authentication

We learn how to create authentication strategies that allow us to securely sign users into our applications.

1. Authentication Basics
2. Security Configuration
3. Project: Members Only

APIs

We use what we've learned to create API-only backends that can serve JSON to any front-end we want.

1. API basics
2. API Security
3. Project: Blog API

Testing Express

In this section we learn what it takes to write tests for our Express projects.

1. Testing Routes and Controllers
2. Testing database operations

FINAL PROJECT

This is it! Create your final project and prove to the world you're a node/express master.

1. Project: Odin-Book
2. Conclusion