Complete Full Stack Web Development Masterclass

📚 Topics Covered

• How computers work: CPU, Memory, Storage
• Binary, data representation, and encoding
• Operating systems basics (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Internet fundamentals: How the web works
• Client-server architecture explained
• IP addresses, DNS, and HTTP basics
• Development environment setup
• VS Code installation and configuration
• Terminal/Command Line basics
• Git installation and first commands

• Creating your first GitHub account
• Introduction to HTML: What is markup?

📚 Topics Covered

• HTML document structure and anatomy
• Semantic HTML5 elements (header, nav, main, section, article, aside, footer)
• Text elements: headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes
• Links and navigation (absolute vs relative URLs)
• Images: img tag, srcset, responsive images
• Tables: structure, accessibility, styling
• Forms: input types, labels, validation
• Form elements: textarea, select, radio, checkbox
• HTML5 APIs: audio, video, canvas basics
• Meta tags and SEO fundamentals

• Accessibility basics: ARIA labels, semantic structure
• HTML best practices and code organization

📚 Topics Covered

• CSS syntax: selectors, properties, values
• Three ways to add CSS: inline, internal, external
• CSS selectors: element, class, ID, descendant, child
• CSS specificity and cascade rules
• Color systems: hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla
• Typography: font-family, size, weight, line-height, letter-spacing
• Text styling: alignment, decoration, transformation
• The Box Model: content, padding, border, margin
• Width, height, and box-sizing
• Display property: block, inline, inline-block, none

• Background properties: color, image, position, repeat, size
• CSS units: px, em, rem, %, vh, vw

📚 Topics Covered

• CSS positioning: static, relative, absolute, fixed, sticky
• Z-index and stacking contexts
• Float and clear (legacy layout)
• Flexbox: flex container and flex items
• Flexbox properties: justify-content, align-items, flex-direction, flex-wrap
• Flex grow, shrink, and basis
• CSS Grid: rows, columns, and grid template
• Grid areas and named grid lines
• Grid gap, auto-fit, auto-fill, minmax
• Responsive design principles

• Media queries: breakpoints and mobile-first approach
• Viewport meta tag and mobile optimization

📚 Topics Covered

• What is JavaScript? History and ecosystem
• Adding JavaScript to HTML: script tags, external files
• Console and debugging basics
• Variables: var, let, const (differences and scope)
• Data types: string, number, boolean, null, undefined, symbol
• Type conversion and coercion
• Operators: arithmetic, comparison, logical, assignment
• String methods: length, charAt, slice, indexOf, replace
• Template literals and string interpolation
• Comments and code documentation

• Naming conventions and code style
• First program: interactive calculator

📚 Topics Covered

• If-else statements and conditions
• Switch statements
• Ternary operator
• Truthy and falsy values
• Logical operators: &&, ||, !
• Loops: for, while, do-while
• Break and continue statements
• Nested loops and patterns
• Arrays: creation, indexing, length
• Array methods: push, pop, shift, unshift

• Iterating arrays with loops
• Multi-dimensional arrays

📚 Topics Covered

• Function declaration vs expression
• Parameters and arguments
• Return statements
• Default parameters
• Rest parameters and spread operator
• Arrow functions (ES6)
• Function scope and hoisting
• Lexical scope and closure
• IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expressions)
• Callback functions introduction

• Higher-order functions basics
• Pure functions and side effects

📚 Topics Covered

• Object literals and properties
• Accessing properties: dot vs bracket notation
• Adding and deleting properties
• Methods and 'this' keyword
• Object destructuring
• Object.keys, values, entries
• JSON: parsing and stringifying
• Nested objects and arrays
• Iterating over objects
• Object spread operator

• Sets and Maps introduction
• Comparing objects vs primitives

📚 Topics Covered

• JavaScript fundamentals review
• Problem-solving strategies
• Code refactoring techniques
• Debugging common errors
• Best practices recap

📚 Topics Covered

• What is the DOM? Tree structure
• Window and document objects
• Selecting elements: getElementById, getElementsByClassName, querySelector
• querySelectorAll and NodeList vs HTMLCollection
• Traversing the DOM: parent, children, siblings
• Creating elements: createElement, createTextNode
• Modifying content: innerHTML, textContent, innerText
• Modifying attributes: getAttribute, setAttribute
• Modifying styles: style property, classList
• Adding and removing classes

• Inserting elements: appendChild, insertBefore, append, prepend
• Removing elements: removeChild, remove

📚 Topics Covered

• Event listeners: addEventListener, removeEventListener
• Common events: click, dblclick, mouseenter, mouseleave
• Keyboard events: keydown, keyup, keypress
• Form events: submit, focus, blur, input, change
• Event object and properties
• Event bubbling and capturing
• Event delegation pattern
• preventDefault and stopPropagation
• Creating custom events
• DOMContentLoaded vs load event

• Mouse position and coordinates
• Touch events for mobile

📚 Topics Covered

• Array methods: map, filter, reduce, find, findIndex
• forEach, some, every
• Sort and reverse
• Method chaining
• String methods: split, join, trim, includes
• Regular expressions basics
• Date and time in JavaScript
• Math object and methods
• Error handling: try-catch-finally
• Throwing custom errors

• Strict mode
• localStorage and sessionStorage

📚 Topics Covered

• Synchronous vs asynchronous code
• setTimeout and setInterval
• Callbacks and callback hell
• Promises: creating and consuming
• Promise chaining
• Promise.all, Promise.race, Promise.allSettled
• Async/await syntax
• Error handling with async/await
• Fetch API basics
• Making HTTP requests

• Working with APIs and JSON
• CORS and API authentication basics

📚 Topics Covered

• Project planning and wireframing
• Code organization and structure
• Git workflow and version control
• Responsive design implementation
• Deployment to GitHub Pages

📚 Topics Covered

• Destructuring: arrays and objects (deep)
• Spread and rest operators (advanced usage)
• Enhanced object literals
• Computed property names
• For...of and for...in loops
• Iterators and generators
• Symbols and their use cases
• WeakMap and WeakSet
• Proxy and Reflect
• Optional chaining (?.)

• Nullish coalescing operator (??)
• Private class fields

📚 Topics Covered

• Constructor functions
• Prototypes and prototype chain
• ES6 Classes syntax
• Class inheritance and extends
• Super keyword
• Static methods and properties
• Getters and setters
• Public, private, and protected fields
• Encapsulation principles
• Polymorphism in JavaScript

• Composition over inheritance
• Design patterns: Factory, Singleton, Module

📚 Topics Covered

• First-class functions
• Higher-order functions
• Pure functions and immutability
• Function composition
• Currying and partial application
• Closures (advanced)
• Recursion and recursive patterns
• Memoization and optimization
• Functional array methods (advanced)
• Ramda or Lodash/FP

• Immutable data structures
• Functional vs OOP: when to use what

📚 Topics Covered

• ES6 modules: import/export
• Named vs default exports
• CommonJS vs ES modules
• NPM and package management
• Package.json explained
• Semantic versioning
• Installing and managing dependencies
• Webpack basics: entry, output, loaders
• Webpack dev server
• Babel for transpiling

• Bundling and code splitting
• Environment variables

📚 Topics Covered

• Why TypeScript? Benefits and ecosystem
• TypeScript setup and tsconfig.json
• Basic types: string, number, boolean, any, unknown
• Arrays and tuples
• Enums and literal types
• Functions and optional parameters
• Type inference vs explicit typing
• Union and intersection types
• Type aliases and interfaces
• Compiling TypeScript

• TypeScript with vanilla JS projects

📚 Topics Covered

• What is React? Virtual DOM explained
• Create React App setup
• JSX syntax and rules
• Components: functional vs class
• Props and prop drilling
• Props validation with PropTypes
• Rendering lists with map
• Conditional rendering techniques
• React fragments
• Component composition

• Children prop pattern
• Event handling in React

📚 Topics Covered

• useState hook: primitive and object state
• State updates and batching
• useEffect hook: lifecycle equivalent
• useEffect dependencies array
• Cleanup functions in useEffect
• useContext for prop drilling solution
• useReducer for complex state
• Custom hooks creation
• useRef for DOM access and mutable values
• useMemo for expensive calculations

• useCallback for function memoization
• Rules of hooks

📚 Topics Covered

• Controlled vs uncontrolled components
• Form handling and validation
• React Router: routes, navigation, params
• Nested routes and layouts
• Protected routes and authentication
• Lazy loading and code splitting
• React.memo for performance
• Error boundaries
• Portals for modals and tooltips
• Higher-Order Components (HOC)

• Render props pattern
• Compound components pattern

📚 Topics Covered

• Why external state management?
• Redux fundamentals: store, actions, reducers
• Redux Toolkit (modern Redux)
• createSlice and configureStore
• Redux DevTools
• Async logic with Redux Thunk
• Redux Saga basics
• Zustand (lightweight alternative)
• Recoil basics
• When to use Context vs Redux

• State management best practices

📚 Topics Covered

• Setting up React with TypeScript
• Typing props and state
• Event handlers type
• Children and generic components
• Hooks with TypeScript
• Context API with TypeScript
• Redux with TypeScript
• Type-safe API calls
• Utility types for React

📚 Topics Covered

• CSS Modules in React
• Styled Components library
• Emotion CSS-in-JS
• Tailwind CSS with React
• Tailwind configuration and customization
• Component libraries: Material-UI (MUI)
• Chakra UI basics
• Ant Design integration
• Theme management
• Responsive design in React

• CSS animations in React
• Framer Motion for animations

📚 Topics Covered

• React DevTools Profiler
• Identifying performance bottlenecks
• Virtual scrolling for large lists
• Windowing with react-window
• Image optimization techniques
• Lazy loading images
• Code splitting strategies
• Bundle size optimization
• Lighthouse audits
• Core Web Vitals

• Performance monitoring tools
• Memoization best practices

📚 Topics Covered

• Introduction to testing: why test?
• Jest testing framework
• React Testing Library
• Writing unit tests
• Testing components and hooks
• Mocking API calls and modules
• Integration testing
• End-to-end testing with Cypress
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Testing best practices

• Code coverage reports
• Continuous testing

📚 Topics Covered

• Next.js introduction and setup
• File-based routing
• Pages and layouts
• Server-side rendering (SSR)
• Static site generation (SSG)
• Incremental static regeneration (ISR)
• API routes in Next.js
• Data fetching strategies
• Image optimization with next/image
• Next.js deployment

• SEO optimization

📚 Topics Covered

• Full-stack frontend application
• Professional UI/UX design
• State management implementation
• Performance optimization
• Testing coverage
• Production deployment

📚 Topics Covered

• What is Node.js? V8 engine explained
• Node.js architecture and event loop
• Blocking vs non-blocking code
• Global objects: process, __dirname, __filename
• Modules system: require and module.exports
• Core modules: fs, path, os, http
• File system operations: read, write, append, delete
• Asynchronous file operations
• Buffer and streams
• Event emitters

• Creating HTTP server with Node.js
• Handling requests and responses

📚 Topics Covered

• Express.js introduction and setup
• Routing: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
• Route parameters and query strings
• Middleware concept and usage
• Built-in middleware: express.json, express.static
• Custom middleware creation
• Error handling middleware
• Request and response objects
• Sending responses: JSON, HTML, files
• Template engines: EJS, Pug

• Serving static files
• Express Router for modular routes

📚 Topics Covered

• REST principles and constraints
• HTTP methods semantics
• Status codes: 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx
• API versioning strategies
• Resource naming conventions
• Query parameters for filtering, sorting, pagination
• Request/response body structure
• Error response format
• API documentation with Swagger/OpenAPI
• Postman for API testing

• HATEOAS principle
• API best practices

📚 Topics Covered

• Deep dive into event loop phases
• Promises in Node.js
• Async/await patterns
• Error handling in async code
• Worker threads for CPU-intensive tasks
• Child processes and clustering
• Stream processing: readable, writable, transform
• Piping streams
• Memory management in Node.js
• Performance monitoring

• Debugging Node.js applications
• PM2 process manager

📚 Topics Covered

• Application-level vs router-level middleware
• Third-party middleware: helmet, cors, morgan
• Rate limiting and throttling
• Request validation with Joi/Yup
• File upload with Multer
• Cookie and session management
• CSRF protection
• Compression middleware
• Graceful shutdown
• Environment-based configuration

• Logging with Winston
• Security best practices

📚 Topics Covered

• SQL vs NoSQL databases
• MongoDB introduction and architecture
• MongoDB installation and setup
• MongoDB shell commands
• Collections and documents
• CRUD operations in MongoDB
• Query operators: comparison, logical, element
• Update operators: $set, $inc, $push, $pull
• Aggregation pipeline basics
• Indexing for performance

• Data modeling in MongoDB
• Embedded documents vs references

📚 Topics Covered

• Mongoose introduction and setup
• Schema definition and types
• Schema validation rules
• Custom validators
• Default values and required fields
• Virtuals and getters/setters
• Instance methods and static methods
• Query helpers
• Middleware (pre/post hooks)
• Population for references

• Discriminators for inheritance
• Schema design patterns

📚 Topics Covered

• Relational database concepts
• PostgreSQL installation and setup
• SQL basics: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
• WHERE clause and filtering
• ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET
• Aggregate functions: COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX
• GROUP BY and HAVING
• JOINs: INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL
• Subqueries and nested queries
• Data types in PostgreSQL

• Constraints: PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, UNIQUE, CHECK
• Normalization (1NF, 2NF, 3NF)

📚 Topics Covered

• Indexes: B-tree, Hash, GiST
• Query optimization techniques
• EXPLAIN and query plans
• Views and materialized views
• Stored procedures and functions
• Triggers
• Transactions and ACID properties
• Isolation levels
• Database backup and restore
• Replication basics

• Partitioning large tables
• Database migrations

📚 Topics Covered

• Sequelize ORM for Node.js
• Model definition and associations
• Migrations with Sequelize
• Seeders for test data
• Prisma ORM introduction
• Prisma schema and migrations
• Type-safe database queries
• Knex.js query builder
• Connection pooling
• Database transactions in Node.js

• Choosing the right database
• Polyglot persistence

📚 Topics Covered

• Authentication vs authorization
• Password hashing with bcrypt
• Salt and rainbow table attacks
• Session-based authentication
• Token-based authentication
• JWT (JSON Web Tokens) structure
• Creating and verifying JWTs
• Access tokens and refresh tokens
• OAuth 2.0 protocol
• Social login: Google, Facebook, GitHub

• Passport.js middleware
• Role-based access control (RBAC)

📚 Topics Covered

• OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
• SQL injection prevention
• NoSQL injection attacks
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
• Security headers: helmet.js
• CORS configuration and security
• Rate limiting strategies
• API keys and secrets management
• Environment variables and .env

• Input validation and sanitization
• HTTPS and SSL/TLS

📚 Topics Covered

• WebSockets protocol
• Socket.io library
• Real-time events: emit, on, broadcast
• Rooms and namespaces
• Private messaging
• Real-time notifications
• Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• WebRTC basics
• Scaling WebSocket servers
• Redis adapter for Socket.io

• Real-time database sync
• Building chat applications

📚 Topics Covered

• MVC architecture pattern
• Repository pattern
• Service layer pattern
• Dependency injection
• SOLID principles
• Caching strategies: Redis
• Cache invalidation patterns
• Background jobs: Bull queue
• Task scheduling with cron
• Email sending: Nodemailer

• SMS integration
• Payment gateway integration: Stripe

📚 Topics Covered

• Complete backend system design
• Database architecture
• Authentication and authorization
• Real-time features
• Security implementation
• API documentation

📚 Topics Covered

• What is system design?
• Scalability: vertical vs horizontal
• Load balancing concepts
• Load balancer types: Layer 4 vs Layer 7
• Caching strategies and levels
• Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Database sharding and partitioning
• Database replication: master-slave
• CAP theorem explained
• Consistency models

• Latency vs throughput
• Back-of-envelope calculations

📚 Topics Covered

• Monolith vs microservices
• When to use microservices
• Service decomposition strategies
• Inter-service communication: REST, gRPC
• Message queues: RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Event-driven architecture
• Saga pattern for distributed transactions
• API Gateway pattern
• Service discovery
• Circuit breaker pattern

• Distributed tracing
• Microservices challenges

📚 Topics Covered

• GraphQL vs REST
• GraphQL schema and types
• Queries, mutations, subscriptions
• Resolvers and data sources
• Apollo Server setup
• GraphQL with databases
• Authentication in GraphQL
• DataLoader for batching
• GraphQL best practices
• Error handling in GraphQL

• GraphQL subscriptions for real-time
• Apollo Client integration

📚 Topics Covered

• Database indexing strategies
• Full-text search: Elasticsearch
• Rate limiting algorithms
• Distributed caching with Redis
• Session management at scale
• File storage systems
• Video streaming architecture
• Real-time analytics systems
• Notification systems design
• Design patterns for scalability

• Monitoring and observability
• Disaster recovery planning

📚 Topics Covered

• Application profiling
• Database query optimization
• N+1 query problem
• Connection pooling
• Caching at multiple layers
• Compression techniques
• Lazy loading strategies
• CDN optimization
• API response optimization
• Memory leak detection

• CPU profiling
• Load testing with Artillery/k6

📚 Topics Covered

• What is Docker? Containers vs VMs
• Docker installation and setup
• Docker images and containers
• Dockerfile creation
• Docker commands: run, build, push, pull
• Docker volumes for persistence
• Docker networks
• Multi-container apps with Docker Compose
• Docker Compose YAML
• Environment variables in Docker

• Docker best practices
• Container security

📚 Topics Covered

• What is Kubernetes?
• Kubernetes architecture: master and nodes
• Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments
• Services: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer
• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Persistent Volumes
• Namespaces
• Ingress controllers
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
• Rolling updates and rollbacks

• Helm package manager
• Kubernetes dashboard

📚 Topics Covered

• AWS account setup and IAM
• EC2: virtual servers
• S3: object storage
• RDS: managed databases
• Lambda: serverless functions
• API Gateway
• CloudFront CDN
• Route 53 DNS
• VPC and networking
• Security groups and NACLs

• CloudWatch monitoring
• Cost optimization

📚 Topics Covered

• Continuous Integration explained
• Continuous Deployment explained
• Git workflow strategies
• GitHub Actions basics
• Writing workflow YAML files
• Automated testing in pipelines
• Build and deployment automation
• GitLab CI/CD
• Jenkins basics
• Environment management

• Blue-green deployments
• Canary releases

📚 Topics Covered

• Infrastructure as Code concept
• Terraform basics
• Terraform providers and resources
• Terraform state management
• CloudFormation for AWS
• Ansible for configuration
• Version control for infrastructure
• Environment provisioning
• Disaster recovery automation
• Cost tracking and management

📚 Topics Covered

• Time-series databases
• Graph databases: Neo4j
• Vector databases
• Database migrations at scale
• Multi-tenancy patterns
• Data warehousing basics
• ETL processes
• Database security hardening
• Backup strategies
• Disaster recovery testing

📚 Topics Covered

• Penetration testing basics
• Security auditing tools
• Zero-trust architecture
• API security testing
• Secrets management: Vault
• Compliance: GDPR, HIPAA basics
• Security monitoring
• Incident response planning
• Bug bounty programs
• Secure coding practices

📚 Topics Covered

• ML basics for developers
• TensorFlow.js
• Integrating ML models in apps
• Image recognition APIs
• Natural Language Processing
• Recommendation systems
• ML model deployment
• AI-powered features
• Ethical AI considerations

📚 Topics Covered

• Blockchain fundamentals
• Smart contracts introduction
• Web3.js basics
• Connecting to Ethereum
• NFT concepts
• Decentralized apps (dApps)
• Cryptocurrency integration
• Web3 authentication
• Future of web development

📚 Topics Covered

• Project ideation and planning
• System architecture design
• Technology stack selection
• Database design
• API design and documentation
• Frontend architecture
• Development workflow setup
• Team collaboration (if group project)

📚 Topics Covered

• Code review and refactoring
• Testing: unit, integration, E2E
• Performance optimization
• Security hardening
• Documentation: technical and user
• CI/CD pipeline setup
• Production deployment
• Monitoring and logging
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Project presentation preparation

📚 Topics Covered

• Portfolio website optimization
• Resume building for developers
• LinkedIn profile optimization
• GitHub profile enhancement
• Contributing to open source
• Interview preparation: technical
• System design interview prep
• Behavioral interview questions
• Salary negotiation tips
• Freelancing vs full-time

• Building personal brand
• Continuous learning strategies