Node.js Development
Build backends that stay up. Services, APIs and workers on modern Node — typed, tested and observable, without the tooling pile you don't need any more. Most Node courses still have you install four tools that ship with the runtime now; this one teaches the modern baseline. Built for fresh IT graduates and working developers alike.
Almost every Node course online teaches a stack the runtime has
moved past: CommonJS, ts-node, Jest, and Express as
the only option.
Most Node courses still have you install four tools that
ship with the runtime now. The modern baseline is
materially different, and this course teaches it:
native TypeScript execution — Node runs
.ts files directly by stripping type annotations,
with the crucial caveat that it strips types, it does not check
them, so tsc still belongs in CI; the
built-in test runner, taught as the default with
the ecosystem alternatives covered honestly;
ESM as the default, with the interop issues that
still bite codebases carrying CommonJS dependencies; and the
permission model, restricting what a process —
and its third-party dependencies — can reach, taught alongside
supply-chain security because that is a genuine, current npm
concern.
The judgment comes with the caveats: the erasable-syntax
constraint means features that emit runtime code — enums,
namespaces, parameter properties, decorators — don't work under
stripping alone, which pushes real design choices like
as const objects over enums; and a production build
step still earns its place for cold starts and single-artifact
deploys. We also answer the release-line question directly —
even-numbered lines get long-term support, and we teach how to
choose a target for new work and plan upgrades — and we treat
Bun and Deno honestly: what they do better, why
Node still holds the ecosystem, and how to reason about the
choice.
It is designed for two audiences at once. If you are a fresh IT graduate targeting backend or full-stack roles, Node's biggest practical advantage is that one language covers both sides of a product. If you are a working developer — a frontend developer moving backend, a Node developer trained on CommonJS, ts-node and Jest who wants the modern baseline, or an engineer from another stack — this course is the modernisation and depth path. The program runs 10 weeks (~75 hours), live and build-along, closing with a containerised, monitored backend capstone defended on architecture.
Node.js or Next.js? Different Jobs
- Next.js Development — the web application: backend logic living inside the framework that serves the UI.
- Node.js Development (this course) — standalone backend engineering: services and APIs that many clients consume, background and queue workers, streaming and file processing, real-time servers, microservices, and the operational concerns of running them.
- This course is for people who need a backend that exists independently of any frontend. New to the ecosystem entirely? Start with React.js Development for the UI side.
Why Learn Node When AI Writes Endpoints?
Same honest answer as our React and Next.js courses: AI writes Node endpoints quickly and gets the things that matter wrong — error handling, backpressure, connection lifecycles, security boundaries, failure modes under concurrency. Those only surface in production. The value is architecture, review, debugging and operational judgment. You'll use AI tooling as an accelerator you review, and you'll learn the failure patterns generated backend code repeats — so you ship its speed without shipping its mistakes.
Course at a Glance
- Duration: 10 weeks | ~75 hours | live + hands-on
- Format: Live online · build-along · deployed services
- Prerequisite: Solid JavaScript. TypeScript taught from first principles. No backend experience required.
- Curriculum: 10 modules, from the event loop to production operations and capstone
- Portfolio: 7 deployed, production-style services plus a defended capstone
- Curriculum reviewed: July 2026 — the Node runtime moves fast; this syllabus tracks the current baseline
Course Highlights
- Every module leads with what you build and ship, not what you "learn about"
- The runtime, properly understood: event loop, streams, backpressure, worker threads
- The modern baseline: native TypeScript execution, built-in test runner, ESM, permission model
- Types stripped is not types checked — tsc in CI, and the erasable-syntax design choices
- Framework choice taught, not defaulted: Express, Fastify and Hono compared honestly
- Distributed-work reality: queues, retries, idempotency, dead letters, graceful shutdown
- Supply-chain security and the permission model as first-class material
- Observability from day one: structured logs, metrics, tracing with OpenTelemetry
Hands-on Projects & Portfolio
Validation, layered architecture, migrations and full test coverage.
Handles inputs larger than available memory without falling over.
Queue, retries, idempotency and dead letter handling.
WebSockets, presence and reconnection handling.
OAuth, refresh tokens, roles and rate limiting.
Find and fix an event-loop blockage and a memory leak, with profiling evidence.
Structured logs, metrics, tracing and load-test results.
Production backend, containerised, monitored and defended on architecture.
Tools & Stack
Node.js TypeScript Express Fastify Hono PostgreSQL Prisma or Drizzle Redis BullMQ Zod node:test Vitest Supertest Testcontainers Docker Kubernetes OpenTelemetry Pino nginx AWS GitHub Actions Git
Career Outcomes
Node remains one of the most widely deployed backend runtimes, and its biggest practical advantage is that a JavaScript or TypeScript developer can own both sides of a product without switching languages. The differentiator at hire time is not writing endpoints — it is understanding the event loop, streams, failure modes and observability well enough to keep a service alive under load. This course targets:
- Backend Developer
- Node.js Developer
- Full-Stack Developer
- API Engineer
- Platform Engineer
- Microservices Developer
- DevOps-adjacent backend engineer
- Technical founder shipping independent services
Who This Course Is For
- Final-year students and fresh IT graduates targeting backend or full-stack roles
- Frontend and React developers moving into backend work
-
Node developers trained on CommonJS,
ts-nodeand Jest who want the modern baseline - Python, PHP, Java and .NET developers adding Node to their stack
- Full-stack developers who can build features but not diagnose production incidents
- Freelancers and founders shipping services alone
Material Includes
- Class recordings
- Service starter repos & architecture templates
- Incident runbooks & observability checklists
- Certificate
Prerequisites
- Solid JavaScript
- TypeScript taught from first principles
- No backend experience required
Estimated Time: 9 Hours
You ship:- A diagnosed event-loop blockage: reproduce it, read the flame graph, fix it with worker threads — the module that separates people who can debug Node from people who can only write it
- The event loop, phases and the microtask queue; what blocks it and how to tell; non-blocking I/O
- Single-threaded concurrency versus parallelism; worker threads and child processes; clustering
- Memory and garbage collection basics; reading a flame graph
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A modern project skeleton: ESM, native TypeScript execution for scripts, tsc as the CI type-check gate, a workspace layout, and a deliberate decision on where a build step still earns its place
- ESM and module resolution; package configuration; native TypeScript execution and its erasable-syntax constraints
- tsc as a CI type-check gate; when a build step still earns its place
- Dependency management; lockfiles; workspaces and monorepos; supply-chain hygiene
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A streaming file-processing service that transforms, compresses and hashes inputs larger than available memory — with backpressure handled correctly, not by accident
- The standard library that removes dependencies: filesystem and paths, buffers, built-in fetch and HTTP clients, events and the emitter pattern
- Streams and backpressure; pipelines; compression; crypto
- Processing files larger than memory without falling over
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A typed REST API with validation, first-class error handling, pagination, versioning, uploads and OpenAPI docs — plus a written framework choice: Express vs Fastify vs Hono for this workload
- Routing, middleware and request lifecycle; REST design that survives contact with real clients
- Validation and typed contracts; error handling as a first-class concern; pagination; versioning; file uploads; OpenAPI documentation
- Express as the incumbent alongside Fastify and Hono — how to choose rather than default
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A production data layer: typed ORM schema and migrations, transactions, tuned connection pooling, an N+1 hunt with fixes, and Redis caching — behind a repository pattern that stays testable
- Relational databases with a typed ORM or query builder; schema design; migrations; transactions
- Connection pooling and lifecycle; N+1 problems; Redis for caching and sessions; document stores where they fit
- Repository patterns that keep data access testable
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- An authentication service with OAuth, refresh tokens, role and permission models and rate limiting — hardened against the OWASP API risks and run under the runtime permission model
- Sessions versus tokens; JWT handling and its pitfalls; OAuth and third-party identity; password storage
- Role and permission models; rate limiting; input sanitisation; the OWASP API risks; secrets management
- The runtime permission model; dependency auditing and supply-chain security
Estimated Time: 8 Hours
You ship:- A background job system with a queue, retries, idempotency and dead letter handling — plus a real-time WebSocket service with presence, reconnection and graceful shutdown
- Job queues and background processing; retries, idempotency and dead letter handling; scheduled work; long-running tasks
- Webhooks in both directions; real-time with WebSockets and server-sent events
- Event-driven service communication; graceful shutdown
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A fully tested service — unit and integration tests on the built-in runner, database tests in containers, contract and end-to-end API tests — with coverage and lint gates in CI
- The built-in test runner as the default — ecosystem alternatives covered honestly; unit versus integration testing
- Test doubles and dependency injection for testability; database testing with containers; contract testing; end-to-end API tests
- Coverage that means something; linting and CI gates
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- A refactor of a codebase that outgrew its structure — layered, injected, configurable — plus a written monolith-vs-microservices decision with service boundaries drawn and defended
- Layering and separation of concerns; dependency injection; configuration and environment management
- The monolith-versus-microservices decision made honestly; service boundaries; inter-service communication; shared libraries
- Refactoring a codebase that outgrew its structure
Estimated Time: 7 Hours
You ship:- Your capstone: one production-grade backend — containerised, health-checked, observable with logs, metrics and traces, load-tested — deployed and defended on architecture
- Containerising Node properly; process management; health checks and graceful restarts
- Structured logging; metrics and distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry; error tracking; performance profiling and memory-leak hunting; load testing
- Deployment targets including serverless and cold-start trade-offs; CI/CD; on-call reality; capstone design, build, deploy and defense
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