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The Complete Developer: Master the Full Stack with TypeScript, React, Next.js, MongoDB, and Docker
A hands-on, beginner-friendly approach to developing complete web applications from the ground up, using JavaScript and its most popular frameworks, including Node.js and React.js.
Whether you’ve been in the developer kitchen for decades or are just taking the plunge to do it yourself, The Complete Developer will show you how to build and implement every component of a modern stack—from scratch.
You’ll go from a React-driven frontend to a fully fleshed-out backend with Mongoose, MongoDB, and a complete set of REST and GraphQL APIs, and back again through the whole Next.js stack.
The book’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes will teach you how to build a web server with Express.js, create custom API routes, deploy applications via self-contained microservices, and add a reactive, component-based UI. You’ll leverage command line tools and full-stack frameworks to build an application whose no-effort user management rides on GitHub logins.
You’ll also learn how
Work with modern JavaScript syntax, TypeScript, and the Next.js frameworkSimplify UI development with the React library Extend your application with REST and GraphQL APIsManage your data with the MongoDB NoSQL databaseUse OAuth to simplify user management, authentication, and authorizationAutomate testing with Jest, test-driven development, stubs, mocks, and fakes
Whether you’re an experienced software engineer or new to DIY web development, The Complete Developer will teach you to succeed with the modern full stack. After all, control matters.
Docker, Express.js, JavaScript, Jest, MongoDB, Mongoose, Next.js, Node.js, OAuth, React, REST and GraphQL APIs, and TypeScript
Whether you’ve been in the developer kitchen for decades or are just taking the plunge to do it yourself, The Complete Developer will show you how to build and implement every component of a modern stack—from scratch.
You’ll go from a React-driven frontend to a fully fleshed-out backend with Mongoose, MongoDB, and a complete set of REST and GraphQL APIs, and back again through the whole Next.js stack.
The book’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes will teach you how to build a web server with Express.js, create custom API routes, deploy applications via self-contained microservices, and add a reactive, component-based UI. You’ll leverage command line tools and full-stack frameworks to build an application whose no-effort user management rides on GitHub logins.
You’ll also learn how
Work with modern JavaScript syntax, TypeScript, and the Next.js frameworkSimplify UI development with the React library Extend your application with REST and GraphQL APIsManage your data with the MongoDB NoSQL databaseUse OAuth to simplify user management, authentication, and authorizationAutomate testing with Jest, test-driven development, stubs, mocks, and fakes
Whether you’re an experienced software engineer or new to DIY web development, The Complete Developer will teach you to succeed with the modern full stack. After all, control matters.
Docker, Express.js, JavaScript, Jest, MongoDB, Mongoose, Next.js, Node.js, OAuth, React, REST and GraphQL APIs, and TypeScript
305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2024
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March 11, 2024
This one's quite good.
The material it covers is very temporaly sensitive, as in, like many other "work with X" books it may probably go out of date soon, but it worked great for me in comparison to other books that required extensive debugging of the config mess required to bring them up to date and be able to run them.
For the book itself, I really enjoyed the approach of the book being split in two halves:
- One for demoing parts of the stack like React, Next.js and Docker, and
- One for actually writing the final application and connecting the stack parts in a cohesive whole.
The code works (aside from one minor snuggle at some point that was easily fixed) and when it doesn't, you can just download the code from the book’s website and it works. I also enjoyed the use of the book's website in concert with the book at some points (the website offers some demo APIs).
Context: Senior Systems Developer moving to Web (some experience in the field), needed something quick to get up to speed in Node/JS/TS.
The material it covers is very temporaly sensitive, as in, like many other "work with X" books it may probably go out of date soon, but it worked great for me in comparison to other books that required extensive debugging of the config mess required to bring them up to date and be able to run them.
For the book itself, I really enjoyed the approach of the book being split in two halves:
- One for demoing parts of the stack like React, Next.js and Docker, and
- One for actually writing the final application and connecting the stack parts in a cohesive whole.
The code works (aside from one minor snuggle at some point that was easily fixed) and when it doesn't, you can just download the code from the book’s website and it works. I also enjoyed the use of the book's website in concert with the book at some points (the website offers some demo APIs).
Context: Senior Systems Developer moving to Web (some experience in the field), needed something quick to get up to speed in Node/JS/TS.
May 7, 2024
Fully Stacked
This is a fantastic book for learning everything you need to know with all the hot coding technologies of today.
I enjoyed it a lot, and it gave me some great examples and insights.
I, myself, am a full-stack developer, and I use TypeScript all the time - although I mostly code in C#.
That being said, React, Next.js, MongoDB, and even Docker are less-known to me, and I have only touched on them here-and-there.
This book gave me a great knowledge of these platforms and I feel I am much better now at picking up future projects. I feel especially knowledgable in React and Next.js for frontend work too, as most of my own work is backend.
Highly recommend checking this one out - Krause is a great writer!
4.8/5
This is a fantastic book for learning everything you need to know with all the hot coding technologies of today.
I enjoyed it a lot, and it gave me some great examples and insights.
I, myself, am a full-stack developer, and I use TypeScript all the time - although I mostly code in C#.
That being said, React, Next.js, MongoDB, and even Docker are less-known to me, and I have only touched on them here-and-there.
This book gave me a great knowledge of these platforms and I feel I am much better now at picking up future projects. I feel especially knowledgable in React and Next.js for frontend work too, as most of my own work is backend.
Highly recommend checking this one out - Krause is a great writer!
4.8/5
August 5, 2025
It was an ok place to start, gave me an initial foundation to know which tools I'm going to need. However, I found doing real world projects and the vercel next js tutorial to be more helpful and up to date.
The strong point of this book is calling out most of the skills you'd need as a full stack developer.
The strong point of this book is calling out most of the skills you'd need as a full stack developer.
January 18, 2025
This book is really hard to understand and hence, not apt for beginners, although that's what the author does promise. I am disappointed.
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