About the Course
1. Prerequisites and Introduction
· Programming fundamentals (basic HTML & CSS ideal, but course covers from scratch)
· Overview of web development and the MERN architecture
2. Front-end with React.js
· Introduction to React, JSX, and components
· Props, state, and event handling
· Conditional rendering & mapping data to components
· React Router for navigation
· State management (Context API/Redux basics)
· Building responsive UIs using Bootstrap and CSS
· Building real-world projects: portfolio, e-commerce, or travel website
3. Back-end with Node.js & Express.js
· Node.js basics: environment, asynchronous programming, npm
· Introduction to Express.js: routing, middleware, error handling
· RESTful API development
· Connecting the server with the database (MongoDB)
4. Database Integration (MongoDB & Mongoose)
· MongoDB concepts: documents, collections, schema design
· CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
· Data modeling and schema validation with Mongoose
· Indexing and performance optimization
· Integrating the backend API with MongoDB
5. Full-stack Integration
· Connecting the React front-end to the Node/Express back-end
· Handling API calls from React (using Axios/fetch)
· Managing authentication (JWT, session/cookies)
· Designing and managing secure user roles, access control
6. Advanced Topics
· File uploads and image handling (using Multer in Node)
· Deployment: environment variables, preparing for Heroku/Firebase hosting
· Debugging and code optimization
· Source control with Git and GitHub portfolio setup





