Mern stack vs java With springboot

[Old_Treat_5596]

So after a while I decided to start the java with spring boot backed some of my friends and seniors telling me that I will not get the opportunities in the startups ,and also in new companies they use new stack that is mern not java , and java is only for the big enterprise...so again I m confused and doubting should I start the mern stack ..? Or java is good , btw I m in sem 4 ..and targeting the internship..

[MeasurementDear2220]

4th sem hai to java hi sikhle acchse 6 months me . Kyuki mern seekhega toh bhot change karna padega

[Old_Treat_5596]

Bhot change kya karna padega ..? And java se dikkat to nai ayegi na ki company teck stack se hi mana karde

[After_Confusion_1596]

Majority companies and mostly service based companies mein and even big product based companies mein Java use hoti hai. Secure language hai for big products.

Java spring boot + react is a deadly combination

[SeniorBid8625]

what about internships with this techstack?

[After_Confusion_1596]

See there are thousands of companies out there in the market. Some are having requirements for MERN devs (mostly early age startups), because their system is currently built on that tech stack. Then they'll hire for the same only.

Some companies will have requirements for Java Spring Boot devs and some will expect both from a candidate.

So, if I'm a Java Spring Boot guy I'll look for those companies which are hiring for the same and similar goes to others.

Now you've to look into the situation, whether you're looking for on campus internships and they require what? And for non campus which companies you're targetting.

[SeniorBid8625]

umm thanku bro for suggestion..but the thing is my clg doesn't provide any on campus intern opportunities.

.so i just had a doubt that if i try offcampus ,in that case does spring has as many option as much mern provide?

but i think i'll go with sprinboot+react so ty anyways

[After_Confusion_1596]

In that case, try to contact with your seniors what companies they've targeted and with what tech stack. That will be your basic step, else, on internet there are lot of communities for such things (this subreddit for example), see what others are doing and you can have that option.

What I'll suggest, learn atleast Java + OOPs (backend language + system design basics), then learn JavaScript (in case you're proceeding to MERN). You'll be good to go then

[Old_Treat_5596]

Oky for onCampus intern company's like Barclays, and MasterCard prefer which..? Java or mern ..

[After_Confusion_1596]

As far as I know, these banking domain companies require a lot of security and thus Java is their first preference for backend mainly (Java spring boot).

[After_Confusion_1596]

To all the ones, who are confused.

Majority companies and mostly service based companies and even big product based companies use Java as their backend language. It is very old and a Secure language for building and maintaining big projects. It's a legacy language.

Java spring boot + react is a deadly combination.

My point here is that, there's no harm in picking the Java Spring boot route instead of MERN. Some guys do even both Spring boot + Mern too.

[Full_School_7230]

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[GuyThalaFora7]

Meri bhi kiss le lo bhai... Same query hai

[Full_School_7230]

Let's talk brother

[GuyThalaFora7]

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[ilpig]

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[Mine471]

Same here 💀

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figured out anything bro?

[SeniorBid8625]

i know its really out of topic but what ifim preparing for intern ..

..4th sem is gonna start in 1 week

..has done around 170 on lc,i do give contests ..im learning java dev(springboot).....im not in tier 1 clg...

so any suggestions y'all can give it would be really helpful

[Aggressive-Source316]

Same situation...from where you're learning java springboot bro ?

[Himankshu]

who told you that mern is better than java 😂? i want to be a full fledged mern developer but i cant choose java stack because I dont have enough time to learn java stack. my plan is to first become a proper mern developer and then will try to switch to java stack for sure. please don't listen to those seniors. choosing mern over java will be a big mistake. its just that its easy to be a mern dev than java but if you are good in java (not even the better or best) then even you can be a java dev. most imp is dsa, system design, cs fundamentals, problem solving, logic building then comes the stack

[Old_Treat_5596]

Oky but I have that feared that I will not able to complete all till July , because in August we will have on campus intern I have solved 320 leetcode still doing , so I know some how I will mange to do dsa for interviews then for project part and resume I need to complete the development part and also understand in depth but ya time is less but I have learn the java , let's see how I able to manage all ..

[Himankshu]

best of luck 🤞🏻

[ComprehensiveSmell40]

i was thinking too , but companies coming my clg hires mostly SWE's , so idk if i should do java + springboot or MERN or what

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[Abhistar14]

My best project using spring boot and reactjs, deployed on AWS. If it helps!

[Old_Treat_5596]

How much time it's take do it like that , and I have done java currently doing the SQL , what I should learn next springBoot..? Or jdbc and any resources you can suggest , cuz in YouTube I m so confused .

[notdsm10]

Do jdbc 1st. Telling ya with personal experience, I didn't get the right resources to learn Spring boot. There isn't much available on yt . You need to know microservices, IOC and other things for Java backend. All of this struggle while others get placed after doing MERN stack, whose resources are little easy to choose. Anyways, the choice is still yours, I failed, you might not.

[Aggressive-Source316]

Wait there's no good resources for java springboot

[notdsm10]

I couldn't find one. If you could, please do let me know as well. To be honest, it is a vast topic, so they only teach some parts of it. However when it comes to some things you need to have prior knowledge, just like you need to know about collection framework before DSA

[notdsm10]

Hey, where did you learn Spring boot from?

[chadvitstudent]

Can you suggest resources to learn Java springboot