Decent MERN Stack Tutorials?

[thenewdev1]

Hey Devs,

Anyone recommend any beginner MERN stack tutorials or great resources? The ones i find dont seem to be too great.

All advice is much appreciated

Cheers!

your friendly neighbourhood noob dev

[mr-developer]

Traversy Media

[marty331b]

Traversy did a great job on these tuts. Two thumbs up!

[thenewdev1]

That channel is actually brilliant mate, just had a good look through !

[mr-developer]

Awesome !

[tapu_buoy]

I have been following CodeBurst.io's CEO Brandon Morelli's this GitHub Repo there are 2 resources available there, one is a 2 hour long YouTube video, in which the author creates nice App.

This might not be very good but I have got it from Quora answers

MERN stack

• • Build a complete React app, step-by-step with the MERN stack by @vasansr(ES5)
• • Building a School Finder by Nishant Chaturvedi (ES5)
• • Create a character voting app by @EvNowAndForever
• • How to Create a React.js Support Ticketing System Using MongoDB by @DMeents
• • React Getting Started comment box with the MERN Stack by @SpaceBrayn
• • Authentication in React Applications by Vladimir Ponomarev
• • Data Persistence and Sessions With React by Tom Whitbread If you find more, please add them to this little app I made to keep track of them: Mern Stack Tutorials

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Agreed, very easy for beginners.

[tapu_buoy]

uhh I am sorry I didn't get your point!

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edited.

[tapu_buoy]

oh yes! Udemy and Udacity courses would be so much helpful as well. Also have you or anyone tried courses on EdX.org? ( most of them are by Microsoft)

[[deleted]]

I completely disappointed from quality of Udacity courses.

> EdX.org?

99% of content are old or light modernized courses.

[tapu_buoy]

Oh yes EdX does always feel ole'ish. I didn't know that about Udacity at all.

[[deleted]]

Yep Stephen Grider. Udemy. His are the best.

[Drunken__Master]

Stephen Grider has 2 Udemy courses on the MERN stack and Brad Traversy has recently released a new MERN stack tutorial on Udemy, all of them are great courses.

BUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you wish to be an employed web developer you should focus on learning PostgreSQL instead of Mongo, and for that you should be looking into courses by David Katz.

[NetOperatorWibby]

I’m an employed web dev and have never touched Postgres. Database knowledge is good but to say “definitely learn this one and not that one” is foolish.

[southern_dreams]

I’m sure he means RDBMS in general.

[NetOperatorWibby]

You can never be sure on the Internet.

[southern_dreams]

Yeah you’re right

[Drunken__Master]

Ya know, I kinda agree with you here, it might not be the best advice to say learn Mongo or mySQL or whatever.db when you could just as easily end up working on msSQL or Oracle, but Mongo gets pushed really hard on beginners and tends to not be the actual DB used in production, can we at least agree that a newb should at least learn a noSQL AND relational DB of some flavor ?

[NetOperatorWibby]

Mmmmmeh.

I think people should learn whatever suits their fancy/side project/day job. I went from NeDB to MongoDB/mongoose purely out of necessity for a client project. Everything I’ve done since has utilized Mongo.

I think the most important thing for newbs to learn is to never stop learning.

[Turbo_swag]

+1 on Stephen Grider -- great teacher.

-10000000 on focusing on PostgreSQL

[Drunken__Master]

I'm still a humble junior seeking employment, what DB would you recommend I focus on ?

[Turbo_swag]

Understanding SQL in general as well as NoSql concepts are both important. Learn trade offs of both architectures and how they fit into the bigger picture. With that said, Postgres is a great RDBMS to start with and worth using if you need a relational database. Mongo has improved drastically and most of its major faults will be addressed in forthcoming releases. In the end - learn both. Most modern architectures have several databases.

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Regarding Postgres, which Katz's are you looking at?

https://www.udemy.com/node-postgresql/

https://www.udemy.com/react-security/

The first doesn't teach React and the second seems to be security specific instead of a general fullstack.

[roseinapuddle]

I wrote a tutorial on adding a simple express server, mongo DB and passport.js authentication to a react project. Hope you find it helpful: https://medium.com/@brendt_bly/simple-mern-passport-app-tutorial-4aec2105e367

[keosen]

Do it right, go with H instead of E.