Full Stack Developer Roadmap 2021

Most of the newcomers are planning to go for full-stack development.

What is a full-stack developer?

A person who can develop the entire application (both client and server).

Advantages:

• Master all the techniques involved in a development project.
• Can provide help to all the team members
• Can reduce the cost of the project
• Can reduce the time used for team communication

Disadvantages:

• The solution chosen can be dependent on developer skills
• The solution chosen can be wrong for the project
• Being a full-stack developer is increasingly complex

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HTML

Is designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets and scripting languages such as JavaScript and mandatory for all web developers

Must read:

• Basic HTML and DOM
• Form
• HTML5 APIs (Storage)

A beginner can start from w3schools

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CSS

CSS — Styling for web pages (Makeup HTML)

Must read:

• Selectors (class, ID, element, attribute, pseudo)
• Box Model
• Position (absolute, fixed, relative)
• Flex, Grid
• Media Query (screen, print)

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JavaScript

Javascript is the programming language of the Web.

Must read:

• Basics (var, loop, statements)
• Scope
• Closure
• Functions
• Hoisting
• DOM manipulation
• Event handling

Useful articles

• 7 JavaScript Concepts That Every Web Developer Should Know
• Object destructuring in JavaScript
• 9 Array Methods Every JavaScript Developer Should Know
• CRUD Operation with Array in JavaScript JavaScript Array Methods Cheat Sheet

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React

React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components. React can be used as a base in the development of single-page or mobile applications.

Must read:

• Components
• Hooks
• Router
• Data binding
• State Management

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NodeJS

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

Must read:

• HTTP
• File Storage (CRUD)
• OS
• Events
• Sync and Async
• Event Loop

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ExpressJS

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

Must read:

• Middleware's
• Routing
• Error Handling
• Debugging

Additionally

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Crypto

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MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system. Its name is a combination of “My”, the name of co-founder Michael Widenius’s daughter, and “SQL”, the abbreviation for Structured Query Language

This is not necessary but basic knowledge will definitely help you with the relational database management system.

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MongoDB

MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas

Must read:

• Databases
• collections
• Schema
• Aggregation

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Live Projects and Deployments

Woohoo!!!!!!! 🥳 🥳

You did it….. now it's time to develop something with a real-world solution.

Project Ideas

• Blog (CRUD)
• Todo App example
• Chat Bot
• Quiz App

Congratulations!!! You’re now a full-stack developer. 😎

You can now consider yourself as a one-man army. 🤝

All the best <Happy Code />