Learn Javascript: Full-Stack From Scratch

Understand the JavaScript language itself, Node.js, MongoDB, The Web Browser and More To Create Meaningful Applications

What you'll learn

The JavaScript language itself

How to control a database (MongoDB) with JavaScript

How to control the Web Browser with JavaScript

How to implement user registration, log-in, log-out & user generated content

How to setup a server by using Node JS and Express

Requirements

No prerequisite knowledge required; the only thing you need is a computer (that you are allowed to install software on) and an internet connection.

Description

Learn the incredibly popular and in demand JavaScript language. This course makes no assumptions of prior computer programming experience. We begin with the very basics and slowly but surely work our way up to writing JavaScript code to power every aspect of an application.There are countless JavaScript courses in the world; here's what makes this one unique:A strong emphasis on the "why" and not just the "how"As few assumptions as possible; it's a pet peeve of mine when instructors assume I know something I don'tAs few "just download my existing project to get you up and running" moments as possible. It's another pet peeve of mine when instructors have you use an existing solution that just "automagically" works and you miss a potential learning experience of setting it up yourself.  We do copy-and-paste HTML templates (since the focus of the course is not about HTML) but aside from that I explain things from the ground up.Here's what we'll learn in the course:The JavaScript language itselfThe Web Browser EnvironmentThe Node.js environmentThe MongoDB environmentThe Express framework for creating serversUser registration & user-generated contentAuthentication (both stateful with sessions and stateless with JSON Web Tokens)… and much more!I encourage you to watch the freely available first lesson titled "Where Do We Begin?" to get a better feel for the course.This course may be brand new, but this isn’t my first time teaching. I’ve led training sessions for Fortune 500 companies and I’ve already helped over 65,000 people on Udemy and received the following feedback:"Brad definitely has some of the best techniques to embed the lesson into your mind… hands down these are the best tutorials I have had the opportunity to view.""Presentation is concise without being tedious… you honestly feel that you have a thorough understanding of the subject.""…[Brad] explained the process. Not memorize this or that, he explained the process. If you're looking to take a course to understand the foundations of creating websites, look no further."Become highly valuable and relevant to the companies that are hiring JavaScript developers; in one convenient place alongside one instructor. If you're ready to begin coding your own applications from the ground up - I'll see you on the inside!

Overview

Section 1: Welcome To The Course!

Lecture 1 Where Do We Begin?

Section 2: The 10 Days of JavaScript: The Language Itself

Lecture 2 Getting Started

Lecture 3 Functions

Lecture 4 Objects

Lecture 5 Arrays

Lecture 6 Making Decisions

Lecture 7 Higher-Order Functions

Lecture 8 Returning vs Mutating

Lecture 9 Scope & Context (Part 1)

Lecture 10 Scope & Context (Part 2)

Lecture 11 Miscellaneous Info (Part 1)

Lecture 12 Miscellaneous Info (Part 2)

Lecture 13 Building To-Do App (Part 1)

Lecture 14 Building To-Do App (Part 2)

Section 3: Server Basics

Lecture 15 Why Do We Need a Server?

Lecture 16 Node.js Intro

Lecture 17 Text Editor Software

Lecture 18 Our First Basic Server

Lecture 19 Express Intro (Part 1)

Lecture 20 Express Intro (Part 2)

Lecture 21 What's Next? (Big Picture)

Section 4: Database Basics

Lecture 22 First Taste of a Database

Lecture 23 Note About The Next Video Lesson

Lecture 24 Optional: Host Your Database Locally On Your Computer

Lecture 25 CRUD: Actually Working With A Database

Lecture 26 Initial Setup for App #1

Lecture 27 Save Time: Automatic Node App Restarts

Lecture 28 Note About Concept In The Next Video Lesson

Lecture 29 Connecting Node App to Database

Lecture 30 Solution to Common Database Problem

Lecture 31 Installing NPM Packages Without Stopping Server/App

Lecture 32 Reading Data from a Database

Lecture 33 Updating a Database Item (Part 1)

Lecture 34 Updating a Database Item (Part 2)

Lecture 35 Deleting a Database Item

Lecture 36 Create New Item Without Page Reload

Lecture 37 Client-Side Rendering

Lecture 38 What About Security?

Lecture 39 Note About Front-End Security

Lecture 40 Pushing Our App Onto The Internet

Section 5: Starting Our Complex App (App #2)

Lecture 41 What's Next?

Lecture 42 Optional: Finished Product Working Example

Lecture 43 Let's Begin App #2

Lecture 44 Always Have The Current Year In The Footer

Lecture 45 Important Note About Package Versions To Save You Frustration

Lecture 46 What Is A Router?

Lecture 47 What Is A Controller?

Lecture 48 Security Note

Lecture 49 What Is A Model?

Lecture 50 Note About Arrow Functions & The "this" Keyword

Lecture 51 Adding Validation To Our Model

Lecture 52 Quick Misc. Clean Up

Lecture 53 Quick Note About Connecting to Database

Lecture 54 Optional: Hosting Your Database Locally

Lecture 55 Connecting To Database In a Reusable Fashion

Lecture 56 Best Practice Time Out: Environment Variables

Lecture 57 Quick Note

Lecture 58 Letting Users Log In

Lecture 59 What is a Promise? (Part 1)

Lecture 60 What is a Promise? (Part 2)

Lecture 61 Running Multiple Promises Efficiently When Order Doesn't Matter

Lecture 62 Hashing User Passwords

Lecture 63 How Can We "Identify" or "Trust" a Request?

Lecture 64 Session Security

Lecture 65 Understanding Sessions

Lecture 66 Letting Users Logout

Lecture 67 Adding Flash Messages

Lecture 68 User Registration Improvements (Part 1)

Lecture 69 User Registration Improvements (Part 2)

Lecture 70 Adding User Profile Photos

Section 6: User Created Posts

Lecture 71 Letting Users Create Posts (Part 1)

Lecture 72 Letting Users Create Posts (Part 2)

Lecture 73 ObjectId Instead of ObjectID

Lecture 74 Post Model (Part 1)

Lecture 75 Post Model (Part 2)

Lecture 76 Don't Forget The New Keyword With ObjectId

Lecture 77 Viewing a Post (Part 1)

Lecture 78 Viewing a Post (Part 2)

Lecture 79 Performing a Lookup in MongoDB (Part 1)

Lecture 80 Performing a Lookup in MongoDB (Part 2)

Lecture 81 User Profile Screen

Lecture 82 View Posts by Author

Lecture 83 Is the Current Visitor the Owner of the Post?

Lecture 84 The "Edit" Screen for a Post

Lecture 85 Updating Posts in Database (Part 1)

Lecture 86 Updating Posts in Database (Part 2)

Lecture 87 Miscellaneous Improvements

Lecture 88 Markdown: Safe User Generated HTML

Lecture 89 Make This Quick Edit To Your Code

Lecture 90 Let Users Delete a Post

Section 7: Live Search Feature

Lecture 91 Staying Organized: Front-End JavaScript

Lecture 92 Important Note For Windows Users

Lecture 93 Showing and Hiding Search Overlay

Lecture 94 Responding to Key Press Events

Lecture 95 Back-End Aspect of Search

Lecture 96 How To Create DB Indexes From Within Node.js Code

Lecture 97 Generating HTML for Search Results (Part 1)

Lecture 98 Generating HTML for Search Results (Part 2)

Lecture 99 Fixing The Month for Post Dates in Search Results

Lecture 100 Sanitizing User Generated HTML on the Front-End

Section 8: Letting Users Follow Each Other

Lecture 101 Letting Users Follow Each Other

Lecture 102 Saving a "Follow" Action Into Our Database

Lecture 103 Stop Following a User (Part 1)

Lecture 104 Stop Following a User (Part 2)

Lecture 105 Profile Followers Screen (Part 1)

Lecture 106 Profile Followers Screen (Part 2)

Lecture 107 Following Screen (Part 1)

Lecture 108 Following Screen (Part 2)

Lecture 109 Homepage Feed (Posts From Those You Follow)

Section 9: Live Chat (Socket.IO)

Lecture 110 Beginning Chat Feature

Lecture 111 Socket.IO (Part 1)

Lecture 112 Socket.IO (Part 2)

Lecture 113 Note About Socket.io In The Next Lesson

Lecture 114 Finishing Chat (Part 1)

Lecture 115 Finishing Chat (Part 2)

Lecture 116 Quick Misc. Feature: Dynamic Title Tag

Section 10: Live Validation for Registration Form

Lecture 117 Live Form Validation (Part 1)

Lecture 118 Live Form Validation (Part 2)

Lecture 119 Live Form Validation (Part 3)

Lecture 120 Live Form Validation (Part 4)

Section 11: What is CSRF? (Security)

Lecture 121 This Chapter Is For Historical Context

Lecture 122 About The "csurf" Package from NPM

Lecture 123 Preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Lecture 124 Adjusting Our App To Use CSRF Token

Section 12: Let's Create an API

Lecture 125 Setting Up The Skeleton for an API

Lecture 126 JSON Web Tokens (Part 1)

Lecture 127 JSON Web Tokens (Part 2)

Lecture 128 Finishing API and Understanding CORS

Section 13: Deploying Complex App to Render

Lecture 129 Pushing Our Complex App Up Onto The Web

Lecture 130 Note About SendGrid In The Next Video Lesson

Lecture 131 Sending Email From Our App

Lecture 132 Optional: Convert ".then()" Syntax To Async / Await

Section 14: Turning Our App Into a SPA

Lecture 133 Preventing Default Behavior of Links

Lecture 134 Fetching New Page Data With JS

Lecture 135 The Browser's History API

Lecture 136 Submitting Forms With Client-Side JS

Lecture 137 Edit & Delete Posts (SPA)

Section 15: Where Do We Go From Here?

Lecture 138 Next Steps & Career Advice

Lecture 139 Bonus Lecture

Anyone who might be interested in starting a career in computer programming (no experience required).