From Newbie to Ninja with Node.js

This course was designed to take you from zero to hero with Node.js.  It's also the ideal course to take if you're a frontend developer wanting to venture into backend.

Course Contents:

• 30 Streaming videos
• Source code files for every video

You'll learn:

• the super-basics of node.js
  - what is it?  Why do I use it?
• in-depth npm
  - beyond the basics and how it's used specifically for server apps
• node.js web app development
  - using the amazing Express.js 
• hooking up to MySQL and MongoDB databases
• how to correctly manage databases with Node.js
  - for development and production
• authentication & authorization
  - logging in and accessing user data
• OAUTH2
  - logging in with google/facebook/github, etc
• caching with Redis

Experience Required:

Basic JS.  These free courses are recommended as a prerequisite:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoYCgNOIyGACnrXwo5HMCfOH9VT05znGv

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoYCgNOIyGABI011EYc-avPOsk1YsMUe_

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoYCgNOIyGABs-wDaaxChu82q_xQgUb4f

The goal of this course is to take a developer with no Node.js experience and even no backend experience (or bad/misinformed/outdated backend experience) and teach them modern practices for backend web apps using node.js