Enterprise Grade Back-End Development with NodeJS

Build & release scalable NodeJS applications

Truly understand how to create and ship back-end applications built on top of NodeJS, up to the highest industry standards

Frequently Asked Questions

Become Invaluable

Learn the right skills, in order to increase productivity and performance, cut time spent on maintenance, and avoid production breaking.

Most courses and classes don't teach the skills required in a professional environment, but only the basics. In the end, you're not able to work on a real-world project. To stand out as a skilled developer implies increasing your rate and greater job security. It also gives you more opportunities to pick from, and the ability to choose your favorite among them

Grow you career by a few years, in a few days

You could spend months, or even years, looking for the right technical choices, processes, and practices.

Instead, I provide you with every piece of knowledge you need, in a single place. In this training, you will find a lot of opinionated choices, which make it both practical and concise. You will follow a structured curriculum with the right choices made and explained.

About the instructor

Teddy Morin

Software Engineer

[email protected]

Teddy is a full-stack Software Engineer. He has experience as a Developer, Lead Developer, teacher, and technical writer. Previously, he had the opportunity to work on projects at scale, in industries like pharmaceutical or e-commerce. His mission here is to provide you with courses he didn't have so you don't waste time in your software journey.

What are you going to learn?

1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Potential frameworks and why we use NestJS
3. How to make the most out of this course
4. What are we going to build
5. Questions
1. Bootstrap a NestJS application
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Module & Decorators
3. Controller & Service
4. Middleware
5. Exceptions
6. Pipes
7. Guards & Interceptors
1. Core architecture
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Linters & related configurations
  FREE PREVIEW
3. How do professionals commit?
4. How to set up authentication?
1. Which database and client to use
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Why you shouldn't use TypeORM
3. Getting started with Prisma
4. Migrations
5. Querying
1. Controller and dependencies
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Service
3. Hashing with bcrypt
4. Wrapping up
1. Setting up Swagger
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Documenting endpoints
3. Improving setup
1. Getting started with tests
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Creating our first test file
3. Completing our first test
4. Unit testing with Prisma
5. Fixing validation
6. A word on coverage
7. Complete test suite
8. Wrapping up tests
1. Authentication flow with JWT
2. Start login & environment setup
3. Login endpoint & strategies
4. Access token
5. Testing cookies
6. Generate refresh token
7. Create refresh token endpoint (part 1)
8. Create refresh token endpoint (part 2)
1. Article module setup
2. First article endpoint
3. Creating article endpoint (Part 1)
4. Creating article endpoint (Part 2)
5. Adding role-based access control
6. Delete an article
7. Find articles by page
8. Wrapping up
1. Introduction to E2E
2. Seeding
3. Configuration
4. Your very first E2E test
5. Finish E2E tests for articles
6. E2E tests for auth
1. Introduction to CI
2. CircleCI configuration (Workflows)
3. CircleCI configuration (Jobs)
4. Wrapping up configuration
5. Fixing our CI
1. Database setup with Amazon RDS
2. Manual deployment with Elastic Beanstalk
3. Automatically deploy to EB from CircleCI
1. What should you do now?
2. Final project
3. Exercise: Update user
4. Exercise: Delete user
1. (Scheduled) E-mail service
2. (Scheduled) Database error formating
3. (Scheduled) CI performance improvement
4. (Scheduled) Dependency management & update
5. (Scheduled) Replace custom authentication with oAuth

About this course

75 lessons
6.5 hours of video content

Introduction

Student reviews

Satisfying for front-end developers

Bohdan Merton

Very straightforward course, which taught me how to create my own back-end apps without making it complex. As a primary front-end developer, it was pretty enjoyable.

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Amazing start

Patrik Manley

I still need more time to complete my review, but so far it exceeded my expectations

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A lot to learn

Hervé Matthijs

There was a lot to learn, but the concepts explanations were quite smooth

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What's included?

Lifetime Access

Once registered, you will be able to access 75+ lessons, with 6+ hours of high-quality content, without any limit. Progress at your own pace, and learn what we actually do in the professional world.
Direct Messages

In the introduction section, you will find a link that will give you a privileged access to the author's WhatsApp Business page. There, you will be able to ask anything about the course and make request for additional content.
Deep Dive into Testing

Most learning materials treat tests as optional whereas they're the cornerstone of any enterprise-level application. You will learn how we write tests the right way and be confident before deployment while keeping amazing productivity.

Versatile skillset

Obviously, we will discuss development (and testing) in-depth, but they're not the only skills required to work on enterprise-grade applications. As we go with the course, you will dive into software architecture, automation, and more generally quality.
Free bonus

You will be able to access all the future content. I will personally add content if I feel like it provide you with more value. Also, requests for content that I deem pertinent will be added.

What's going to change after taking this course?

Through this course, you will learn all the technologies, practice, and processes that will make you an invaluable developer. It's not simply about learning how to use a library or technology.

You will learn how to create clean back-end applications, alone or with multiple teams, with the ability to last over time, low debt, and high performance.

You will be able to get ahead of the competition: you will improve your skills but also make your profile more attractive as a professional, no matter if you work as a contractor or employee.

What's the difference with other learning materials?

I sometimes criticise online courses for teaching only the theory or how to use a technology. Instead, on ScalableBackend, you will learn how we build commercial projects from beginning to end.

We will build everything around NestJS & TypeScript, because they're great choices, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. In order to avoid accumulating technical debt, we will focus on structuring our application well, using the right tools, and writing high-quality implementations.

We will discover how to manage data, talk about security, performance, or the importance of documentation. One of the biggest causes of failure is a lack of test in quality or quantity. Here, you will discover how to make use of tests in the real world, to ensure behaviours are the ones you expect, and improve productivity.

In the end, there is a single skill you will lack to keep a healthy application over time: setting up the development process, with the CI/CD and deployment. That's why you're going to do it along with me.