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Node and Express

The other half of the app — write the server your React front end has been pretending to talk to.

Everything you have built so far lives in a browser tab. Refresh it on someone else's laptop and the notes are gone, because localStorage belongs to one machine. A back end is what turns your project into something two p…

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Venkat Kurela
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🌐 English⏱ 12h 50m content📚 16 lessons🏆 Certificate♾ Lifetime📱 All devicesBeginner
Node and Express
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12h 50m of written lessons
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16 lessons across sections
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2 free preview lessons
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NASSCOM-aligned certificate
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Quizzes & assessments
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What you'll learn

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Explain what Node is, and what it gives JavaScript that a browser does not
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Read package.json, and know what npm install actually did to your project
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Build an HTTP server with Express, with routes that read params, query and body
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Choose status codes deliberately instead of returning 200 for everything
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Write middleware, and predict the order it runs in
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Handle errors so a user gets a useful message and an attacker gets nothing
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Validate every input, on the server, regardless of what the form already checked
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Explain what CORS is protecting against, and configure it correctly
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Keep secrets in the environment rather than in code, and know why it matters

Course Curriculum

5 sections · 16 lessons · 12h 50m total

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1. JavaScript Outside the Browser
3 lessons
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What Node Actually Is34m
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Modules, npm and package.json43m
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Reading and Writing Files, Without Blocking38m
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2. Your First Server
3 lessons
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3. Building an API Worth Using
3 lessons
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4. Data You Can Trust
3 lessons
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5. Connecting It Up
4 lessons
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Quizzes & Exams
5 checkpoint quizzes as you go, plus a final exam of 25 questions. 50 questions in total, included with the course.
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Requirements

JavaScript Essentials, or equivalent comfort with functions, objects, promises and async/await
React Fundamentals if you want to connect the final build to a front end
Node.js installed, and a terminal you are comfortable in
This is a WRITTEN course: lessons are text and code you run, not video
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Venkat Kurela
Course Instructor · KCA Expert Trainer
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Course Details
🏷 CategorySOFTWARE_DEVELOPMENT
📊 LevelBeginner
🌐 LanguageEnglish
⚡ AccessOne-time purchase
📅 UpdatedAugust 2026
⏱ Duration12h 50m total
📜 Certificate✓ Included
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Node.jsExpressBackendAPIsBeginnerWritten Course
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