I am interested in learning more about backend development and full stack development. With the recent release of the backend development courses, I am wondering where to being?
Hey @wayne_j, excited to hear you’re keen to dive into backend! Personally, I recommend starting with Command Line Basics to get the basics of the CLI/terminal process as you’ll be using it a lot through the lessons and definitely when you’re coding outside on your editor like VS code. It might be daunting at first but it’s quite straight forward and the more you use it (you definitely will) you’ll get use to it.
I would then recommend going Learn Node.js → Learn Express.js → Learn Next.js
Node is a solid basis for web dev backend, Express is building web servers in Node.js, and Next.js is like an extension of Node.js using React as your frontend language. You don’t have to learn Next if you’re using another frontend langauge but with React being so popular it’s recommended.
I started my backend with this path (never did Next.js though) and I recommend it. Our other fullstack courses we have, and will release in the future, will require this base knowledge.