Complete Backend Course | Build and Deploy Your First Production-Ready API

Introduction to the importance of backend development in handling data security, performance, and overall functionality of applications like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon.

Skipping basic tutorials to dive into building a real-world subscription management system with authentication, database integration, and business logic.

Exploring how servers work, user authentication using JWTs, database integration, and structuring with ORMs like Mongoose.

Developing a secure API with advanced rate limiting, bot protection, MongoDB, Mongoose, user CRUD operations, and logging mechanisms.

Implementing automated email reminders, workflows, debugging, and monitoring features in the backend system.

Deploying the developed backend system to a dedicated VPS for full control and real-world deployment experience.

Preparing for a career as a backend developer by understanding the complexities of backend systems and the process of building and deploying them.

Explaining the interaction between front-end (user interface) and back-end (server, database) components of web applications.

Detailing how servers process requests, utilize protocols like HTTP, resolve DNS to IP addresses, and facilitate communication between clients and servers.

Explaining APIs, HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), endpoints, request/response structure, authentication tokens, and request bodies.

Differentiating between REST and GraphQL APIs, comparing their structures, flexibility, and use cases in web development.

Introducing backend frameworks like Node.js, Express, Django, and outlining their significance in structuring server-side logic and applications.

Highlighting the role of databases in backend systems, including relational and NoSQL databases, SQL vs. NoSQL comparisons, and use cases.

Exploring relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB) in terms of data structure, relationships, and scalability in backend applications.

Discussing Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tools like Prisma and Mongoose to simplify database interactions, queries, and data modeling in backend development.

Outlining API best practices, including HTTP methods, endpoints, response structures, validation, and naming conventions for efficient API design.

Guiding on setting up environment variables for different environments, handling configurations, database connections, and application settings.

Creating organized API routes and endpoints for user management, subscriptions, and CRUD operations with proper naming conventions and structure.

Setting up a MongoDB database using MongoDB Atlas, including creating a project, database cluster, user credentials, and connecting to Node.js.

Explained how to create models in Mongoose, including defining schemas, validating data, and setting timestamps.

Demonstrated how to create MongoDB models for subscriptions, including defining fields like subscription name, price, currency, frequency, and status.

Showed how to create controllers and routes for sign-up, sign-in, and sign-out functionalities in the application.

Implemented error handling middleware to catch and handle different types of errors like bad object IDs, casting errors, and validation errors in the application.

Implemented authorization middleware to protect routes and allow access based on user authentication using tokens, demonstrating user authorization and user details retrieval.

Explained the importance of rate limiting and bot protection in preventing abuse and spam, demonstrated setting up rate limiting using the ArcJet middleware, and showcased how it blocks excessive requests.

Focuses on creating subscriptions, tracking them, and canceling them using the Subscription Controller in the API.

Explains how to populate user information in the subscription routes to validate requests and ensure authorization procedures before creating documents in the application.

Discusses the importance of writing type-safe and secure API endpoints to enhance application security and reliability.

Provides a demonstration of testing the subscription creation by making a post request and filling in the necessary information like currency, frequency, and date.

Describes the process of retrieving user subscriptions and displaying them using an asynchronous function in the controller.

Explains the workflow algorithm for managing subscription reminders and deadlines to enhance user experience and engagement.

Guides through configuring workflow routes by setting up a base URL and token in the workflow file to manage different workflows efficiently.

Details the process of sending reminder emails using Node Mailer and setting up Gmail account authentication for email transport.

Covers the deployment process on a VPS, including updating the system, installing necessary packages like Node.js and Git, and setting up APIs for deployment.