NodeJS - The Complete Guide (MVC, REST APIs, GraphQL, Deno) (Udemy.com)

It's actually pretty good and heavy, it's filled with knowledge not just about how to become a node.js developer, but how to become a great node.js developer, it needs a heavy background of JavaScript knowledge if you want to never stumble in this course, but there is no point in thinking that you are still not ready, we are The Software Engineers, we figure things, we search, we tinker, we break things and fix them, we learn from our mistakes. I really would love to thank Maximilian Schwarzmüller, he is the best instructor I ever studied with, he can teach you a framework or a programming language or a programming concept, or even a full track like Front-end or Back-end, even if you are a total beginner, also his courses are heavy on the practicing part, but as we all know, coding is a skill that needs practicing just like a sword needs a whetstone, and in that part the instructor wasn't short.

I thought this was a pretty good course, and I did learn a lot from it. In this course, he builds two websites over the course and adds features from Node to the sites. I do like this because we can see how these actually work in a project and how they form a coherent project. However, this actually does lead to some issues. Because this course is somewhat outdated, anything he does after an outdated section ruins your ability to simply download the projects and run them. Likewise, he uses a lot of programs that require some sort of registration or login, and these are in the middle of the course, so these also have that issue if you do not want to use these programs. I also wish there were just some small-scale projects that only lasted for a section or two. Like, a small, toy script on Sessions and Cookies and then adding it to the larger website we are making. This way, we see an isolated form of how they work by themselves, and then how they can work in a larger application. Jumping right into the larger application kind of feels overwhelming, and it gets difficult to see where one part of code ends and the next one begins because he also does not comment in his code for which part the code responds with. I also wished he would have waited until the end to add the third-party apps. I also felt like some of the lessons were disorganized and felt like we were constantly jumping around in the videos. Overall, it is a decent course, but it does have some issues.

I have tried learning node,js by myself with YouTube videos and it was always short and did not give me all the turns. and not even have way with the course and i have learned more form 3 to 4 hours on this course, then trying to do it myself. The instructor is awesome, I really enjoy learning from him. I am so going to take the rest of his courses, if it aligns with what I still need to learn.

As always, Max is a great teacher, his speech is clear, precise and complete, and examples are explained to the very bottom of each instruction behavior. Thank you a lot.

Majority of the course is outdated, like content of 2018 it's already 8 years now, though still provides good value but keeping in mind the speed at which things are moving in web development these days and also AI being used everywhere this course needs a complete redo seriously.

I like Max a lot. I watch a lot of his stuff on Angular, React, etc. He's a great teacher and I completely recommend him to everyone. But I did feel like this Node course was a little unpolished. There's a lot of backtracking to fix mistakes and i have to redo my notes a lot which ends up kind of frustrating/ Sometimes its useful, sometimes it just feels sloppy and like it shouldve been recorded correctly the first time. I kind of wish the course had gone over relational databases a little bit more. I think most job postings at the moment are for Postgres but it was interesting to see Mongo. Also, I felt like we spent a very long time looking at EJS even though its a skill we'll probably never need due to decoupled apps being very prevalent.

actually i took a flutter course from this tutor and i liked that and decided to learn backend from him

It was truly a great journey. There were moments filled with errors and version mismatches, but looking back, I’m glad I experienced them. Thanks to troubleshooting these issues, the concepts really stuck with me. It’s obvious that Maximilian put a lot of effort into this course, and I want to thank him for his hard work and this useful content. The content was more than sufficient; the only downside was the trouble caused by version mismatches. I also have one suggestion: The Deno section felt insufficient and quite outdated. I constantly had to research current demos and write code based on new documentation, which was incredibly confusing. It would be much better if the Deno section were updated. Apart from that, it’s a course I can wholeheartedly recommend to everyone.

Course is well designed, well structured. Max explains everything in detail with clear explanation of core concepts.

Max is a great teacher, and you can really see how much he has grown from course to course. I’ve bought several of his programs, including his React book, and they've been helpful. This Node course might be older, but I don’t think code becomes outdated that quickly. A huge part of the internet still runs on older techniques and frameworks, and understanding them makes you a stronger developer. And today, it’s pretty easy to modernize code with a bit of research. The only thing that bothers me is that the course is advertised as updated for 2025, which feels a bit misleading since most of it was recorded 5–6 years ago (or longer). It could affect how people see it. Still, I’ll keep following Max’s work, and I’m happy he upgraded to a better studio over the years! :D