Welcome to the course

- Hi everyone. My name's Sam Mixon, and this is Introduction to Full Stack JavaScript. Throughout this course, we're gonna be touching upon a great many of the parts of the React ecosystem and wider JavaScript ecosystem to build full stack web applications. We're gonna be building three projects. The first, brut a minimalistic brutalistic music player, built around the Spotify API. Through brut, we're gonna look at Vite as a way of scaffolding our application, TypeScript as a way of writing JavaScript style components, as a way of writing CSS, and Axios as a way of writing API requests.

We'll also take a look at testing our application to understand whether it's functioning in the way we expect. In chapter two, we're gonna build a wallet style notes app together, which has both a front end and a backend and the database. In order to do that, we're gonna take a look at forms, at how to structure our front end to make it as extensible and flexible as possible. We'll also take a look at MongoDB and how to build an API and backend using Node and Express.

Then in chapter three, we're gonna build a healthcare app together called Careful, which will display healthcare information from visits between carers and people being cared for. That will expose us to Amazon Web Services, AWS, as well as how to build a backend that can serve data to a front end which we have not written. Then we'll refactor that front end with authentication and a new state management approach that up to that point of the course we will not use, but you might go back and apply elsewhere.

That's a lot to get in, and so this course is fairly long. Hopefully, you enjoy it. Throughout the course I take the approach of bouncing between presentations and examples, some challenges thrown in there just to keep you on your toes and a lot of effectively live coding sessions where I'll work through the problem, the file that we're trying to change, the sort of element that we're trying to add to the application.

I'll do that live and so you get a sense of all the mistakes that someone makes when they're writing this thing, even when they know exactly what they should be doing. So let's get started.