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Full-Stack Developer Roadmap

Integrate responsive frontend interfaces with a selected backend specialization, databases, tests, and deployment.

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Full-Stack Developer Roadmap

  1. 1

    Programming Foundations

    Understand how programs process data, make decisions, repeat work, organize logic, and report errors, then build and debug a command-line application.

  2. 2

    Git and GitHub

    Track changes, create focused commits, work safely with branches, collaborate through pull requests, and recover from routine Git mistakes.

  3. 3

    HTML and CSS Foundations

    Build accessible, responsive, and maintainable web pages with semantic HTML, modern CSS layouts, reusable components, and reliable forms.

  4. 4

    JavaScript Fundamentals

    Write, organize, debug, and test JavaScript programs that process data, respond to browser events, update pages, and communicate with APIs.

  5. 5

    TypeScript Fundamentals

    Add reliable static types to JavaScript applications, model application data, narrow uncertain values, use generics, and configure maintainable projects.

  6. 6

    React Development

    Build accessible React applications with reusable components, predictable state, forms, routing, data fetching, error handling, and automated tests.

  7. 7

    SQL and Relational Databases

    Design a relational schema, write reliable queries, update data safely, use transactions, and diagnose common correctness and performance problems.

  8. 8

    HTTP and APIs

    Trace HTTP requests and responses, use common methods and status codes, work with JSON APIs, handle authentication, and diagnose communication failures.

  9. 9

    Full-Stack Web Development

    Integrate a frontend, backend API, relational database, authentication system, tests, and deployment workflow into one production-oriented application.

Project ladder

Projects to Build

Stage 1

Foundation project

Build evidence that combines the skills from the roadmap stages you have completed.

Stage 2

Specialization project

Build evidence that combines the skills from the roadmap stages you have completed.

Stage 3

Portfolio capstone

Build evidence that combines the skills from the roadmap stages you have completed.

Extend your capability

Recommended Specializations

Node.js and Express

Build, validate, test, secure, and deploy a database-backed HTTP API with Node.js and Express.

Building APIs with Python

Build, validate, test, secure, and deploy a Python HTTP API with structured routes, persistence, authentication, reliability controls, and containers.

Modern PHP Web Development

Build a framework-free PHP web application with Composer, routing, controllers, templates, PDO, authentication, validation, testing, and secure configuration.

Spring Boot Development

Build, secure, test, containerize, observe, and deploy a Spring Boot API with controllers, services, persistence, validation, and authentication.

ASP.NET Core Development

Build, secure, test, containerize, monitor, and deploy an ASP.NET Core application with routing, services, persistence, validation, and authorization.

Docker and Containers

Build, run, secure, debug, connect, persist, test, and distribute containerized applications and multi-service development environments.