Web Development Essentials: Frontend Backend Database in LDE

🌟 Web Development Essentials: Frontend, Backend & Database Mastery 🌟

Course Headline:

Master the art of web development with this comprehensive course that guides you through setting up a full-stack application using Postman, Postbird, and Chrome Developer Tools within a Docker Virtual Environment powered by a Postgres Database. Get ready to transform your local setup into a robust development environment! 🔧✨

Course Description:

Setting Up Your Development Environment: We begin this journey with the assumption that you're starting with a fresh, new laptop. From there, we'll embark on installing essential tools such as Google Chrome, Docker Desktop, Vagrant, Postman, Postbird, and Visual Studio Code (VSCode) step by step. This foundation is crucial for the upcoming tasks.

Creating Your Development Account: I'll guide you through creating a Gitlab account, which will be your digital vault for the source code of our projects, ensuring that your work is backed up and version-controlled.

Essential Tools Overview: Understanding the role of tools like Google Chrome, Postman, and Postbird is fundamental in verifying that your code functions as intended. I'll walk you through these tools and show you how to use them effectively while working on your local setup. 🛠️💻

The Project - An Open Source Template: Our practical project for this course is an open source template that includes a frontend, a backend, and a PostgreSQL database. This template is designed to be deployed on a Docker Virtual Environment and, by extension, can be scaled up with Kubernetes. It's a real-world application that encapsulates the complexity of full-stack development in a manageable package for learning.

Technology Stack Breakdown:

• Frontend: Crafted using React, React Router, Recoil, and Apollo GraphQL.
• Backend: Built with NodeJs, Apollo GraphQL, and Prisma.
• Database: A robust PostgreSQL database.

Why This Template? The template project we'll be using is a distilled version of larger, more complex systems. It's fully featured and includes Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication, which means you can leverage it as a solid foundation for any future projects you undertake. 🎯🚀

Leveraging the Open Source Community: The template code comes from the public gitlab account of fullstackunicorn, making it an ideal starting point for your development journey. You'll learn how to modify and extend this project as you grow more comfortable with the tools and technologies covered in the course.

With this comprehensive guide, you'll not only understand how to set up a full-stack development environment but also gain practical experience by working on a real project. By the end of this course, you'll be well-equipped to tackle complex web applications with confidence. 🎓🎉