Complete Guide to Modern Web Development with React and Node.js

This comprehensive tutorial takes you through building a full-stack web application using React for the frontend and Node.js for the backend.

What You’ll Learn

In this step-by-step video tutorial, we cover:

1. Setting up a modern development environment
2. Creating a Node.js backend with Express
3. Building RESTful APIs with proper error handling
4. Implementing authentication using JWT
5. Developing a responsive React frontend with hooks
6. State management with Context API and Redux
7. Connecting the frontend and backend
8. Deployment to production

Prerequisites

To follow along with this tutorial, you should have:

• Basic knowledge of JavaScript
• Familiarity with HTML and CSS
• Node.js installed on your computer
• A code editor (VS Code recommended)

Code Resources

All code from this tutorial is available on GitHub: github.com/aaravpatel/react-node-tutorial

Additional Learning Resources

For those wanting to dive deeper into specific topics covered in this tutorial:

• React Official Documentation
• Node.js Documentation
• Express.js Guide
• MongoDB University

This tutorial is part of our Web Development Masterclass series. Check out the playlist for more advanced topics in modern web development.