Learn how to use Node as a web server and an API server, how to consume data and build user interfaces with React, and how to read and write data with a MongoDB database. React allows you to build full-featured, data-driven applications faster and more efficiently than what is possible with javascript alone.

Samer Buna introduces modern javascript programming concepts, with an emphasis on functional methods and open-source tools. The lessons are almost completely hands-on, with live coding demonstrations that bring the concepts home.

Topics include:
Using modern javascript features
Configuring webpack and Babel
Working with native Node modules
Creating an Express server
Working with React components and JSX
Loading and working with test mock data
Fetching data from a remote API
Working with data in MongoDB
Isomorphic rendering on the server
Front-end routing and back-end routing