Certified MERN Stack Developer

Course details

Do you want to build your own e-commerce applications, such as eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, but not sure where to start? Do not worry, this course will help you to get started and teach you how to build a fully functional e-commerce application with the MERN ;

What You Will Learn

• Find out how to structure React components
• Create an extensive back-end with Express
• Discover how to fetch data from the database
• Create an admin area to manage customers, products, and orders
• Use JSON web tokens to authenticate the users
• Build a shopping cart with PayPal and credit and debit payments

Note: Please note that the course comes with online e-learning (videos) only. No hard copy will be provided.

Why should one take MERN Stack certification?
The course starts by highlighting the learning objectives and explaining the setup process of React. Next, you will become familiar with the concepts such as functional components, hooks, and routers that will help you to build the application’s user interface. Once the front-end is ready, you will learn how to serve and fetch data from the Express and connect your application to a MongoDB database and implement Redux for state management.

Moving along, you will learn to add a shopping cart to the application by integrating PayPal API and create a custom authentication middleware to authenticate the users. Next, you will learn to build a system for rating and searching the products and learn how to create a carousel for displaying the products. Toward the end, you will learn how to deploy the application to Heroku.

Who will benefit from taking MERN Stack certification?
This course will help jobseekers, professionals and developer to learn the key skills needed to build a real-world e-commerce platform using React, Redux, Express, and MongoDB.
 
Benefits of Certification

• Government certification
• Certification valid for life
• Lifelong e-learning access
• Learning Hours: 15+ hrs

 
How It Works

1. Select Certification & Register
2. Receive Online e-Learning Access (LMS)
3. Take exam online anywhere, anytime
4. Get certified & Increase Employability

Test Details

• Duration: 60 minutes
• No. of questions: 50
• Maximum marks: 50, Passing marks: 25 (50%).
• There is NO negative marking in this module.
• Online exam.

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

• Welcome to the Course
• ProShop Project Demo
• Resources and Environment

2. Starting the Front-end

• Setting up React and Initializing Git
• React-Bootstrap Setup, Header and Footer Components
• HomeScreen Product Listing
• Rating Component
• Implementing React Router
• Product Details Screen

3. Serving and Fetching Data from an Express

• Front-end/Back-end Workflow and Explanation
• Serving Products – Back-end Routes
• Fetching Products from React (useEffect)
• Nodemon and Concurrently Setup
• Environment Variables
• ECMAScript (ES) Modules in

4. Getting Started with MongoDB

• MongoDB Atlas and Compass Setup
• Connecting to the Database
• Adding Colors to the Console (Optional)
• Modeling our Data
• Preparing Sample Data
• Data Seed Script
• Fetching Products from the Database
• Getting Started with Postman
• Custom Error Handling

5. Implementing Redux for State Management

• An Overview of Redux
• Creating a Redux Store
• Product List Reducer and Action
• Bringing Redux State into HomeScreen - useDispatch and useSelector
• Message and Loader Components
• Product Details Reducer and Action

6. Adding the Shopping Cart

• Quantity Select and Add to Cart Button
• Cart Reducer and Add to Cart Action
• Add to Cart Functionality
• Cart Screen
• Remove Items from the Cart

7. Back-end User Authentication

• Clean up using Controllers
• User Authentication Endpoint
• JASON Web Token (JWT)
• Generate a JSON Web Token (JWT)
• Custom Authentication Middleware
• Saving the Token in Postman
• User Registration and Password Encryption

8. Front-end User Authentication and Profile

• User Login Reducer and Action
• User Login Screen and Functionality
• Show the User in Navbar and Logout
• User Register Reducer, Action, and Screen
• Update Profile Endpoint
• Profile Screen and Getting User Details
• Updating User Profile

9. Checkout Process – Part 1

• Shipping Screen and Save Address
• Checkout Steps Component
• Payment Screen and Save Payment Method
• Place Order Screen
• Order Controller and Route
• Creating an Order

10. Checkout Process – Part 2

• Getting an Order by ID Endpoint
• Order Details Reducer and Action
• Order Screen
• Updating the Paid Endpoint
• Order Pay Reducer and Action
• Adding PayPal Payments
• Showing Orders on the Profile
• User Details and Orders Reset

11. Admin Screens – Part 1

• Admin Middleware and Getting Users Endpoint
• Admin User List
• Admin Screen Access Security
• Deleting the Admin User
• Getting a User by ID and Updating User Endpoints
• User Edit Screen and Getting User Details
• Updating the User Functionality

12. Date Admin Screens – Part 2

• Admin Product List
• Deleting Admin Products
• Creating and Updating Product Endpoints
• Creating an Admin Product
• Editing the Product Screen
• Updating an Admin Product
• Image Upload Config and Endpoint
• Front-end Image Upload
• Admin Order List
• Marking an Order as Delivered

13. Product Reviews, Search, and More

• Morgan and Creating Review Endpoint
• Front-end Product Reviews
• Product Search
• Product Pagination
• Creating a Products Carousel
• Custom Page Titles and Meta

14. Application Deployment

• Preparing for Deployment
• Deploying to Heroku

15. Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: Updating the Navbar Name

Updated on 27 December, 2023