Andrew Mead - Nodejs course review

Just finished Andrew Mead's node course on Udemy.

This was one of the finest courses I have done on Udemy.

Here is my rating on Udemy for this one:

https://lnkd.in/dDcx6gk

and that includes a rather lengthy review if you're interested.

Some points that may help you if you're contemplating building something with node or learning node and consider taking Andrew's course:

1. The course content keeps you engaged through consistent challenges to complete stuff on your own.

2. Expectations are set very well. There is no rushing through the course. Your timing may vary - it could taken you 1 month or 6 months to get through this. The key is to be able to absord the material.

3. He does not gloss over the fundamentals and that really helps. callbacks, promises, async await, non blocking I/O are very well explained. I had not written any async code before this and it was a new paradigm to code in a run time that is completely non blocking.

Here are some of the projects that I built along the way:

1. This was a command line note taking app built with yargs. The notes are stored in JSON format in the file system. I loved this one. May have been my favorite.
2. Weather app - https://tjkhara-weather-app.herokuapp.com/

This used two APIs and gives you the weather for any location you want to check out.

3. Task Manager API - https://tjkhara-task-manager-api.herokuapp.com/

Backend for a task manager app.

This was a lot of fun as well. There is a whole section on testing this app with jest. I found that section to be very valuable. I think this could be more valuable than a lot of the testing courses out there. You first build the whole API yourself and then you test it.

4. Real time chat app with socket.io - https://tjkhara-chatapp.herokuapp.com/

This was very interesting because I learned about a different protocol compared to http. And the end result is a lot of fun to use.

His style is I think whats sets his course apart from most other ones.

He has a lot of challenges that keeps the course very interesting.

I tried doing this in a linked in post, but the character limit cut me off there :)

But here you have it.

Enjoy coding and building stuff in 2021...

Best,

TJ.