Full-Stack Engineering

Full Stack Engineer

Nine phases from product thinking and design through frontend, backend, integration, engineering concerns, version control, deployment and finally a portfolio case study.

The course project

The Full Stack Capstone

A live application, a repository, an architecture diagram, a technical explanation, a demo, and a written case study.

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9 modules · 18 lessons

Each module ends with a practice test, a graded build, and a step of the course project.

Phase 1: Deciding

01

Product Thinking

The hardest part is choosing what not to build.

Phase 2: Deciding

02

Design and Interface

Screens, states and words, before any of it is code.

Phase 3: Building

03

Data and Schema

The decision that is hardest to change later.

Section project · coming soon

Walking Skeleton

The thinnest end-to-end slice of your own application, live.

Phase 4: Building

04

The Backend

An API you would be glad to receive.

Phase 5: Building

05

The Frontend

Every state you designed, actually built.

Phase 6: Joining

06

Integration

Where two working halves meet and stop working.

Phase 7: Hardening

07

Engineering Concerns

Security, tests, performance and accessibility, done deliberately.

Phase 8: Shipping

08

Version Control and Deployment

A repository somebody can read, and an address somebody can visit.

Section project · coming soon

Launch Day

Deploy, monitor and write the runbook for your application.

Phase 9: Presenting

09

The Case Study

Being able to explain it is part of having built it.

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