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Become the engineer who owns the whole request, not just the screen.
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Become the engineer who can ship the server, not just the screen. Build a real Node, TypeScript, Express, and Postgres backend from your first HTTP server to a production stack with auth, queues, caching, websockets, observability, and Docker. No prior backend experience required.
Become the engineer who can ship the server, not just the screen.
What you'll ship
What you'll learn
Curriculum
The absolute basics
Before you serve data, you have to be able to trust it. Build a CLI that reads a messy JSON file and refuses bad records.
Servers from scratch
Stand up a real HTTP server, expose a health check, and test it without ever binding a real port.
REST APIs with Express
Turn one route into a clean, layered CRUD API where every file has one job.
Data persistence with Postgres
Replace the in-memory array with a real database. Same API, durable data.
Auth and security
Lock the front door. Hash passwords with bcrypt, issue JWTs, and gate routes by role.
Professional testing workflows
Catch regressions before they ship. Real tests, real databases, real isolation.
Background jobs with BullMQ
Push slow work out of the request path so customers never wait for the things that can happen later.
Caching and optimization
Serve hot reads in under a millisecond and invalidate the cache without losing your mind.
DDD and functional architecture
Keep business rules pure, I/O at the edges, and the codebase survivable for the next six months of feature churn.
Microservices and events
Split a service without creating a distributed monolith. Events over HTTP, eventual consistency, and data ownership.
Ship it: Docker and CI/CD
Package the whole stack so any machine can run it with one command, and block bad code at the door.
API hardening
Make your API survive the hostile internet. Pagination, rate limiting, uploads, versioning.
Realtime WebSockets
Ship live updates without polling. Authenticated rooms, typed messages, and dead connection cleanup.
Observability
See what your backend is doing at 2 AM. Structured logs, health checks, correlation IDs, and graceful shutdown.
Contracts and resilience
Publish what your API promises and prove it survives the failure modes you planned for.
Release engineering
Deploys should be boring. Feature flags, canaries, rollbacks, and load drills make them that way.
Who it's for
who freeze the moment a feature needs a real server
who learned to code on YouTube and now want production-grade depth
with no real exposure to how backends actually run in production
who want one coherent path instead of a bookmark folder of half-finished tutorials
FAQ
No. You need basic JavaScript and a terminal. The first lessons assume nothing about servers, databases, or HTTP. Everything is built up from there.
Because you probably already write JavaScript. Staying in one language lets you focus on the backend ideas, not the syntax. The patterns you learn here transfer directly to any other language.
Yes. You build the same shape of stack engineers run at real companies: Express, Postgres with Drizzle, Redis, websockets, Docker, structured logging, feature flags, and contract testing. By the end you can defend every layer.
Yes. Self-paced with lifetime access. Take it on a weekend or stretch it over a month. You keep everything either way.
Pricing
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