MERN Essentials & JavaScript ES6

• Introduction to MERN Stack Web Development
• Components of MERN (MongoDB, Express, Node JS & React JS
• Setting Development Environment for MERN Stack Web Development
• Quick Review of JavaScript & JavaScript ES5 vs ES6
• ES6 syntax, difference between var, let and const,
• Control with block scoping, Template literals
• Object destructuring, Spread and Rest Operators
• Methods and Modules, Arrow Functions (Map, Reduce, Filter etc.)
• OOP in JavaScript (Classes, Inheritance etc.)
• Default and named import/export, Short-Hand property Syntax
• Fetch/then, Async & Await Keywords

React & Redux for Front End Web Development

• React Big Picture, History & Goals
• Setting up your Development Environment: Node.js, NPM and Git
• Introduction to React and JSX
• Configuring your React Application
• React Components
• Composing Components
• React Components: State and Props
• React Components: Lifecycle Methods
• React Component Types
• Presentational and Container Components
• Functional Components
• React Router
• Single Page Applications
• React Router: Parameters
• Controlled Forms
• Controlled Forms Validation
• Uncontrolled Components
• Uncontrolled Forms
• Introduction to Redux
• React Redux Form
• React Redux Form Validation
• Redux Actions
• Combining Reducers
• Redux Thunk
• React-Redux-Form Revisited
• Client-Server Communication
• Networking Essentials
• Fetch & Promises, Error Handling

Node JS, Express & MongoDB for Backend Development

• Intro to backend Development with NodeJS, Express and MongoDB
• Node.js Big picture, History & Goals
• Setting up Development Environment
• Introduction to Node.js and NPM
• Understanding Node Modules
• Introduction to Express
• Setting up Node Server
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
• Restful API (Sending Requests & Responses)
• Express Router
• Introduction to MongoDB
• Node and MongoDB
• Callback Hell and Promises
• Mongoose ODM
• REST API with Express, MongoDB and Mongoose
• Basic Authentication
• How Authentication Works
• Express Sessions
• User Authentication with Passport
• Token Based Authentication
• User Authentication with Passport and JSON Web Token
• Custom Authentication Middleware
• Deployment & Configuration of MERN Stack Web Application