Microservices with Node JS and React (Udemy.com)

Build, deploy, and scale an E-Commerce app using Microservices built with Node, React, Docker and Kubernetes

Created by: Stephen Grider

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Architect large, scalable apps using a collection of microservices
  • Deploy a multi-service app to the cloud with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Solve concurrency issues in a distributed systems environment
  • Leverage your Javascript skills to build a complex web app
  • Build a Server-Side Rendered React App to render data from your microservices
  • Understand how enterprise companies design their infrastructure
  • Share reusable code between multiple Express servers using custom NPM packages
  • Write comprehensive tests to ensure each service works as designed
  • Communicate data between services using a lightning-fast event bus
  • Write nothing but production-level code. No cutting corners!

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Overall Score : 96 / 100

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Course Description

Event-Based Architecture? Covered! Server side rendering with React? Yep. Scalable, production-ready code? Its here!
Microservices are the number one solution for building and scaling out apps that are intended to grow. Just one little issue: there are few resources online that delve into the most complex and nasty issues around them! Ibuilt this course to fix that. This course tackles every major issues around microservices head on. From challenges with data replication to confusing unordered event streams, every major challenge of building microservices is covered. Beyond focusing on the basics of microservices, this course is a perfect introduction to the world of full-stack development. You will work all the way from the frontend, assembling a React app using Hooks, to the backend, including database design and deployment strategies. Every step along the way is covered in tremendous detail, with ample diagrams to ensure every step is crystal clear.
Many other resources show only the easiest, simplest apps written with microservices. This course does the opposite:
we focus on the most challenging aspects of microservices, challenges that you will likely encounter every single day. You will see these difficulties first hand, then solve them with easy-to-understand strategies.-------------------How This Course WorksThis course doesn't focus on using an off-the-shelf microservices framework. Many exist, but they hide the inner workings and challenges of microservices away from you. Instead, we will be using a minimal number of libraries, and write as much custom code as possible. This will expose you to challenging problems and clever solutions when handling subjects like async events!
What Technology You'll UseBecause we are building a full stack application, we will use a variety of technologies. On the frontend, we'll use React and Next JS to present content to users. Each service is created using Node and Express. Data for each service is held in either a Mongo database or Redis. The entire app is deployed and runs in Docker containers executed in a Kubernetes cluster. Finally, almost all of the code in this course is written with Typescript.
This is a scary list of technologies! Not familiar with some of these? No problem! The course is built assuming that you only know the basics of Javascript and Express. No other knowledge is needed - you will learn everything you need to know.
What You'll Be Able to DoBy the time you complete this course, you will be able to:
Architect a multi-service applicationDetermine whether your app is a good fit for a microservices approachUnderstand and solve the challenges in async, event-based communication between servicesUse Docker and Kubernetes to deploy a multi-service app to any cloud providerOrganize and enhance the reusability of code in large projectsWhat You'll LearnAn absolute incredible number of topics are covered in this course. Here is a partial list of what you'll do:
Practice patterns to create scalable microservices for a variety of app domainsBuild a Server-Side-Rendered React app using Hooks and Next JSWrite a custom implementation of an event busOptionally, run a development environment through a cloud providerGuarantee consistently structured responses from your different API'sSee best practices in communication between different servicesConfigure and scale your services using Kubernetes DeploymentsDocument and enforce structure constraints on events shared across microservicesLimit access to your APIs using JWT-based authenticationAnd much more!
This is the course Iwish Ihad when Iwas learning microservices. A course that focuses on the hardest parts, gives clear explanations, and discusses the pros and cons of different design options. Sign up today and join me in mastering microservices!
Who this course is for:
Javascript engineers looking to build large, scalable applicationsThis course is *not* designed for sysadmins focused on infrastructure deployment

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Instructor Details

Stephen Grider

Stephen Grider has been building complex Javascript front ends for top corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area. With an innate ability to simplify complex topics, Stephen has been mentoring engineers beginning their careers in software development for years, and has now expanded that experience onto Udemy, authoring the highest rated React course. Heteaches on Udemy to share the knowledge hehasgained with other software engineers. Invest in yourself by learning from Stephen's published courses.

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By Xiaoqi Pan on 11/14/2020

Halfway through the course so far and had a glance at what is going to come, taking this course is the best decision I've ever made. This course covers all kinds of topics that are super useful and relevant to real world/workplace projects. I actually applied kubernetes and docker already at work. And most importantly, one of the best instructors on Udemy! I've greatly benefited from taking this course and I am sure whoever follows along will surely do too.

By Gourav Chatterjee on 11/7/2020

Till now proper explanation helps me understand the core concepts.

By Salvador Carbajal on 11/7/2020

Excellent one of the best Udemy Courses I have taken

By Omer Faruk Karacaoglan on 11/7/2020

Simply amazing

By Adam Jacob on 11/7/2020

Excellent attention to detail with the explanation of everything. I am very impressed with how thorough this course has been in explaining different concepts. The value for money on this course is extremely high in my opinion. Thanks!

By Teerapong Intoom on 11/7/2020

I have been studying and reading about these for months. Honestly, you are a really wonderful person making these kinds of things very very easier to understand. All of your Udemy courses broaden my horizon both in terms of technical skills and how I code. I cannot find a word to say thank you. I really appreciate this. I will keep suggesting the courses to people. Please keep doing this.

By Anthony C on 11/7/2020

The course content is good, but the support is quite bad. I'm calling out both Bobby the TA and Stephan the instructor.
As expected, students will run into technical issues in these courses. One such issue had people struggling as long as 6 months. Apparently some threads deep in the Q&A had some solutions, but they were far from discoverable (I had searched very hard).
After spending hours on the issue, I wrote a detailed write up so that all the students can benefit and move forward. Getting stuck on these things is quite stressful when attempting to learn a new topic.
Soon after my write up, the instructor/TA swiftly put out a new slide in the course detailing what to do without so much as thanking supporting students like myself for writing a detailed reply to help people out.
Then, when calling them out on it, Bobby the QA pushed the narrative that the solutions were out there (trust me, if there's a 2 month old question on StackOverflow without a solution then they are not visible answers) and was virtue signaling me for looking for some sort of thanks for helping out the community.
After this exchange, they then delete my support note. ** New ** They are now actively deleting all question I post on the course Q&A, actively targeting me. I am currently on a case with support about this. It's actually pretty sad that an instructor/TA would go this far.
If you're an experienced dev, this is the course for you. If you're new to dev and need some hand holding? Look elsewhere. If you check other 1 star reviews, they all complain about the same thing. The support.

By Jason Ransom on 11/7/2020

Stephen's courses are always top-notch, to the point, and sincerely can lead to a career (or advancement) in software development! I greatly enjoyed this course and will continue to take further courses from him.

By Joud Awad on 11/7/2020

Great course !!
I have not imagined that I was able to get all this new information and skills in one course.
Stephen is a great teacher and he made the course very easy to follow.
would give him 10 stars if it was available

By Jenny Lou Atico on 11/1/2020

awesome course! stephen is a great instructor, he could explain the hard concepts really well! he also uses visual flowcharts/diagrams to clearly explain the lectures which i think is very effective to convey the way he thinks and how he solves problem.

By Eugene on 10/26/2020

It has really good content, the first 5 sections are just super. But, it's painfully slow - 50 hours and most of them are repeated information or topics that are not about microservices. I wish there was a short version of the course 10-15 hours with a focus on microservices where you don't need to scroll 50 mins of the video how to use enums in order make listener class strongly typed... OMG that could be shown in 5 mins, imho.
upd. Basically, after some point, it's not watchable. For example, "Cross-Service Data Replication In Action" chapter duration is almost 3h long, most of it is 101 how to do CRUD with express and mongo (that was already covered in prev. chapters more than once).
I recommend the first 5 chapters if you are a beginner on the topic. They are really great. Everything else is like looking for a needle in the haystack - it just isn't worth the time.

By Peter Larsson on 10/24/2020

Yes it's more thorough than I thought it would be