MERN Stack consists of four technologies.
M - MongoDB
E - Express
R - React
N - Node
All these technologies are built on JavaScript. To learn JavaScript these are the best resources.
Jonas schmedtmann Udemy Course
https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-javascript-course/
After you have learnt JS then proceed to learn Node.js
Node.js is a backend language used for highly scalable applications. Many companies have shifted to Node.js for the scalability and performance provided by Node.js
After learning Node, you should learn Express. Express is a framework built on Node.js. It is very lightweight and easy to learn. Simplifies development with Node.js.
After Learning Express the next step is to learn MongoDB and Mongoose. MongoDB is a NOSQL database and Mongoose is a library that can be used with MongoDB.
You can learn Node, Express and MongoDB from these Udemy courses. They are the best till date.
1) Jonas Schmedtmann Udemy Course
https://www.udemy.com/course/nodejs-express-mongodb-bootcamp/
2) Mosh Hamedani Udemy Course
https://www.udemy.com/course/nodejs-master-class/
So, after learning Node, Express and MongoDB you’re already a Backend Developer. All that's left is to learn is the Front End.
Now you should proceed to learn React. React is a frontend library that is developed and maintained by Facebook. It is super lightweight and is very powerful in performance for any web app. To learn React there are many resources available for free on the web. Also, after learning React you should learn Redux. Redux is state management tool used with React Apps. My personal favourite resources for learning React and Redux are the following.
CodeVolution YouTube Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFaFIcGhPoM&list=PLC3y8-rFHvwgg3vaYJgHGnModB54rxOk3
Official React Docs
https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html
Stephen Grider Udemy Course
https://www.udemy.com/course/react-redux/
Learnt All of these technlogies ? Done. You're A MERN Stack Developer.
Next Step :- Develop some projects to showcase in you portfolio.
Give a like to the post if this helps you out. Also comment down the resources from which you have learned MERN Stack to help others out.
The author of the article is the founder of startup Shashaan Web Solutions. Do check it out. https://www.shashaan.com
Top comments (23)
I think we can learn all these for FREE instead of
udemy.off course, fullstackopen.com/ look that
Super Cool , Thanks for making learning free. :) But there is no English version.
Here is another FREE way to learn Full Stack : theodinproject.com/paths/full-stac...?
at first I also straggled to switch English but there actually is English version at: fullstackopen.com/en 👍
Thanks. Its completely free & Awesome. Made My Day.
It depends on the individual I guess. I personally paid for courses because it fit with my learning methods, and there was support available on the content creator's discord. It's also nicer that downloaded materials and exercised are given.
Yes I agree structured approach is required even for FREE course or youtube videos.
Yes its true you can learn many of these for free. However in my experience many Udemy courses have a premium quality to them. And those teachers are exclusively on that platform they don't create courses elsewhere.
😄, Udemy is good i agree, I was just sharing that we can still learn all this for free. I always prefer text based tutorials over video, Because if you are doing hands on along the course you should be wasting time going back and forth the course in the video. Just watching the video course wont help, you have to build something. So below can help:
Yeah... agree on Text based tutorials over video.
The most reliable resources are the official sites of each of the technologies that provide documentation including APIs. This holds for every techs, not only MERN.
I am sure the instructors from those courses learned from the official sites too.
Most of the official sites provide textual based tutorials from which we can copy paste the code snippet from the examples that we can quickly try and even use them as a starting template for a real project, right after we understand the concepts we are learning. This is something we cannot do with those video tutorials.
That is I always do whenever I want to learn new language, frameworks, libraries :
Yeah. Learning is FREE and many resources are available for FREE, but I've learnt from these resources so I am just referring these resources that these are good resources to learn from.
Node.js is not a backend language.
Thanks for pointing it out. My bad, Node can be used as backend development environment.
It's a JavaScript runtime environment...
Yeah... it is a Javascript runtime platform that can be used for any tasks that needs automation using Javascript language, including for creating a HTTP/Web server.
Due to its low-level, however, frameworks are created so that they can help web developers to quickly develop backend application like Express, Koa, Fastify, NestJs, etc.
Hello my name is Debojyoti, I want to say that I already learnt React js. Now I want to learn node. But I dont understand how and why to use node, because we can call api and use routes in react. All node js tutorial teaching us how to use node with html css...there we need node for api calling and routing, but in react why we need node? and how to use it. thanks in advance
React is for Frontend and Node is for Backend. Consider you're working on a website with database access then you'll build you're Frontend with react and for backend you'll be using Node. Now you'll start React on default port 3000 and start node on something like 3001 port. Now Make a api which return some response and call it from react. We just use Node for the backend purpose.
Now, one thing I am thinking is how to do the same approach Laravel has for web development. From Laravel official site/documentation, it is clear we can use Laravel for two different purposes :
As for MERN stack, from what I have seen the 2nd approach mentioned previously is the most used one. I am trying to find the 1st approach like Laravel provides for this MERN (and also MEAN) stack : a full-stack, standalone application.
We can also agree the "M" in the stack can be MySQL instead of MongoDB, depending on what database we want to use.
No need to pay for udemy courses. YouTube has plenty of great content creators with free courses.
Great 🙌🙌
Thank You.
Codevolution by far has the clearest explainations ❤
That's why it has been included in the list :-)