MERN Essential Training

Learn how to build full-stack applications with MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js—collectively known as the MERN stack.

Curious about how MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js, or MERN, work together, and how to build a full-stack application with the MERN stack? In this course, instructor Emmanuel Henri shows you how. Using practical examples, he shines a spotlight on each step of the process. Learn how to set up your initial Node.js and Express server; set up your Mongo database; define the needed endpoints; create a React front end; and add a form to present data to users.

Introduction

• Learn all about MERN
• Base knowledge checklist

1. Setting Up

• Introduction to MERN
• Install MongoDB
• Install the developer tools
• Install Node and React

2. MERN: Node and Express

• Babel setup in the server
• Initial server setup
• Server files and folders

3. MERN: Mongo and Routing

• Set up your database
• Set up your schema
• Create the POST endpoint
• Create all items GET endpoint
• Create specific ID GET endpoint
• Create a PUT endpoint
• Create a DELETE endpoint

4. MERN: React Front End

• Add a styling library and folder structure
• Add the main page structure
• Add the state and Axios
• Create the listing component
• Create the single item component
• Add the form base structure
• Finalize the form
• Extend the application

Conclusion

• Going further with MERN