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Building Functional Prototypes using Node.js (edX)

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Building Functional Prototypes using Node.js (edX)

Learn the basics of back-end web development as you create a simple web application server using Node.js. In this course, you'll learn all about back-end web development so that you can turn a basic web app prototype into something that can store live data.

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We'll cover the basics of Node.js so that you can write JavaScript code to build the back-end of your app, as well as the basics of SQL and SQLite to write queries to work with a database. By the end of this course, you'll have a functional web app prototype that can be accessed on the Web.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish between front-end and back-end within the context of web app development
  • Create a back-end web server using Node.js
  • Understand the uses and types of databases and DBMSs
  • Construct SQL queries to perform CRUD operations on a database
  • Deploy a web app on Azure

What you'll learn

  • Web server basics
  • HTTP and web routing
  • SQL basics
  • Database querying with SQLite
  • Azure deployment

Syllabus

Module 1 – Intro to Back-End Web Development
Module 2 – Building a Web App Server using Node.js
Module 3 – Working with a Database
Module 4 – Deploying a Web App on Azure

Prerequisites
DEV284x or basic knowledge of HTML and CSS DEV279x or an understanding of programming basics, preferably in JavaScript

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