MERN Stack Web Development with Ultimate Authentication (Udemy.com)
Build Ultimate Authentication Boilerplate Project with MERN Stack from Scratch to Digital Ocean Cloud Servers
Created by: Ryan Dhungel
Last updated February 2024
What you will learn
- Building Ultimate MERN (Mongo Express React Node) Stack Boilerplate Project
- Building Production Ready Authentication System
- Building Login Register System using Email Password
- Implementing Social Login System with Google and Facebook
- ACL - Access Control
- MERN Stack Web Development
- API Development with Node Js
- Frontend Web Development with React
- Create your own base project for all your future React Node FullStack Projects
- Learn FullStack Deployment to Digital Ocean Cloud Servers including MongoDB Setup
- Account Activation before saving user to database
- Login with Google
- Login with Facebook
- Private Routing
- Admin Routing
- Page Layout with React
- Working with LocalStorage
- Working with Cookies
- Working with JWT (json web token)
- Role based redirects
- Profile Update
- Auth Middleware
- Admin Middlewares
How it compares
Against the other 173 rated Udemy courses in React on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 53% of them
- Reviews339#104 of 174 by number of reviews
- Length9.7 hoursshorter than 60% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2024more recently than 50% of them
Course Description
MERN Stack (MongoDB Express React Node) FullStack Project from Scratch to Live Server with production ready Authentication
MERN STACK
Learn MERN stack web development by building production ready login register system with account activation, forgot password, reset password, login with facebook, login with google as well as ACL by implementing private and protected routes for authenticated user and users with the role of admin.
As a bonus, I have also included profile update and deployment to digital ocean cloud servers.
If you are looking to go FullStack with React Node Express and MongoDB or better known as MERN Stack then this should be your first go to course. Because here you will learn to build an Ultimate boilerplate project which can also be used for any future MERN Stack projects you will build for yourself, for your clients or at your job.
New Lectures Added
Adding a domain name
Cloudflare CDN and Free SSL
Force HTTP to HTTPS
Redirect all www to non-www
Updating Google and Facebook login redirect to production domain
Redirect Digital Ocean IP to actual domain name
The key concepts covered in this course
Building Ultimate MERN (Mongo Express React Node) Stack Project
Building Production Ready Authentication System
Building Login Register System using Email Password
Implementing Social Login System with Google and Facebook
ACL - Access Control
MERN Stack Web Development
API Development with Node Js
Frontend Web Development with React
Create your own base project for all your future React Node FullStack Projects
Learn FullStack Deployment to Digital Ocean Cloud Servers including MongoDB Setup
Account Activation before saving user to database
Login with Google
Login with Facebook
Private Routing
Admin Routing
Page Layout with React
Working with LocalStorage
Working with Cookies
Working with JWT (JSON web token)
Role based redirects
Profile Update
Auth Middleware
Admin Middleware
Protecting Routes
Handling JWT expiry
Error handling
Toast Notifications
Forgot Password
Reset Password
Pushing projects to Github
Pulling projects from Github to Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean Server Configuration
Deploying both backend/frontend to single Digital Ocean Droplet
Committing changes after pushing project to live servers
By the end of this course, you will have your own Production Ready MERN Stack Project running live in Digital Ocean Cloud Servers.
Have a look at the promo video to get a better understanding of what this course is all about and how it can change your life for good :)
Web Development is not only about coding, It's also about deploying, dealing with domains, hosting, CDN, www/non-www, http/https, redirects, SEO, pushing new features and more. Get all that knowledge plus the production ready Authentication system, admin routes, page layouts with solid project architecture. This course's project is the beginning of something big :)
Let's go Full Stack. Let's go MERN Stack.
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Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
339 Reviews
Ryan Dhungel
Ryan Dhungel is a Sydney-based full stack developer with 10+ years of coding and 8+ years of teaching. Over 416,000 students have taken his 40+ courses on Udemy, leaving 25,000+ reviews. He teaches modern full stack JavaScript, Next.js, and AI-assisted development with Claude Code — project-based, practical, no fluff.
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Reviews
By Ankur Jhavery on 2/24/2022
The overall flow of the course is not streamlined. I could relate more to free youtube videos than this paid course. Further, all courses should now upgrade to React Router 6 instead of putting just a standard migration guide and leaving students to do the complex parts on their own. Further, the instructor has used bcrypt in most of his other courses, but used crypto in this course. Also, explanation of why virtual password is used is not there. Authentication course should also deal in detail with route protection - using Redux or Context API or both in detail, but that part is also left only sparsely explained. Authentication is a complex topic and instructor can spend more time to upgrade this course. Also explaining the security lapses that one should be aware of - e.g. setting cookies httpOnly
By Sarfaraz Hussain Sattar Chaudhary on 2/21/2021
Thanks a ton Ryan, You made a real developer, I got emotional when I see my things working, as I faced lot of pain while coding in real time, but you explained me so well that make my code work flawlessly, Just 1 feedback, Kindly provide diagrammatic description before lecture to get good picture, rest all is good, I am lucky to learn under your shadow.
By Tony Olas on 1/17/2021
Thanks so much for this course Ryan. The best MERN course in the planet hands down. The course structure and explanations we exceptionally meticulous ensuring every micro detail was explained. I had zero experience in backend web development, yet everything made clear sense to me. My best investment yet on my journey to becoming a web developer.
By Jason Duquain on 10/30/2020
This is a really great course to learn all aspects of MERN and how to implement authentication and authorization in an app. The topics are well explained. For any topics where I had questions, Ryan answered them very quickly and very thoroughly. I also like the fact there is completed code for each lesson is available at the end of most lectures. I will definitely look into his other advanced MERN courses once I continue to improve my understanding of the MERN stack.
By Izak Jackson on 10/26/2020
Ryaan's authentication course has helped me to finally get my head around auth in mern. I have done a few courses and come away not really understanding any of it, but Ryan is a great teacher. Also, he replies super fast to any queries you may have. Highly recommended.
By Muhammed Roshan M on 9/23/2020
The instructor has structured the course well and is easy to follow, be sure to have good amount expertise in react and node working before taking this. This course is more focused on user authentication and autherization, and he explains the concept very well.
By Janelle Tamayo on 9/17/2020
This is the 3rd course I bought from Mr. Ryan Dhungel! This is actually a great course full of wisdom and applicable for building realistic projects! This course was well put together and easy to follow because videos matched my attention span. Most of the errors I have were because of some typos that I missed. I really appreciate all the guidance. I could see that this course was a big improvement from the others.
By Shreya Namdev on 6/20/2020
Believe me or not But This is something Iam looking for days. Perfect Course for Having Ultimate Authentication in your Website . Awesome Explaination plus I have taken three courses of same trainer Ryan Sir as followed and all are top level - Ecommerce , Ultimate Authentication and social media website. I believe that all other courses of Ryan Sir are as great as this Course. P.S. Ryan sir solves queries Fast so that is also a plus point. At Last I want to say (in Hindi ) - "Ek hi to dil hai Ryan Sir , Kitni Baar jeetoge"
By Juan C. Marin on 6/1/2020
There is nothing quite like this course in Udemy. I own over 300 development courses and there are very few that are this good. The course is very well planned-out, well explained and everything is explained. If you want to learn the MERN stack, this is the course for you.
By Isaac Lucas on 1/29/2020
After reading Shama Hoque's book. This course gave me a clear and comprehensive way to implement sign-in and sign-up password recovery and social sign in. into my projects. this guy knows what he talks about and he answers questions fast. I surely recommend this course
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