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RoadMap to learn MERN Stack for Beginners

Kishan Sheth on March 14, 2021

MERN Stack consists of four technologies. M - MongoDB E - Express R - React N - Node All these technologies are built on JavaScript. To lear...
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Shaiju T • Edited

I think we can learn all these for FREE instead of udemy.

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miguelmoramax

off course, fullstackopen.com/ look that

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Shaiju T • Edited

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...?

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at first I also straggled to switch English but there actually is English version at: fullstackopen.com/en 👍

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Samir Nayakawadi

Thanks. Its completely free & Awesome. Made My Day.

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LifeNavigator

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.

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Shaiju T

Yes I agree structured approach is required even for FREE course or youtube videos.

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Andrew Baisden

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.

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Shaiju T • Edited

😄, 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:

  1. Get started with any technology using free resources
  2. Build some projects
  3. Go to advance level and to get premium tips , get famous udemy course and watch
  4. Build some more projects with premium tips
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Alexander B.K.

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 :

  • HTML, CSS, Javascript, Web API, HTTP from MDN
  • React, React Native, Angular, Vue, Laravel for PHP, Spring for Java, from their official sites
  • PHP, MySQL, Java tutorial (text based), from their manuals which can be downloaded from their official sites
  • Node.js, Express and other Node.js frameworks
  • other stuffs...
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Kishan Sheth

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.

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erescobar

Node.js is not a backend language.

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Kishan Sheth

Thanks for pointing it out. My bad, Node can be used as backend development environment.

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Musiliu Samad

It's a JavaScript runtime environment...

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Alexander B.K.

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.

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Debojyoti Ghosh

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

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Kishan Sheth

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.

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Alexander B.K.

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 :

  1. A full-stack, stand-alone development, in which React or Vue.js in the frontend is integrated part of the full-stack application. The React/Vue front-end then is considered 1st party app, instead of 3rd party. For this purpose, we write code for routing in the file named web.
  2. A backend app that provides APIs for 3rd party apps written with any supported tools, including React or Vue. For this purpose, we write code for routing in the file named api.

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.

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Samuele Zanca

No need to pay for udemy courses. YouTube has plenty of great content creators with free courses.

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DemoCera

Great 🙌🙌

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Kishan Sheth

Thank You.

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Thisura Thenuka

Codevolution by far has the clearest explainations ❤

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Kishan Sheth

That's why it has been included in the list :-)