Learn to create scalable REST APIs using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and deploy full-stack-ready apps
Backend API Development with MERN Stack – Build Real-World Projects
What you’ll learn
- Build and deploy RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, with real-world features like CRUD, authentication, and file uploads..
- Connect backend APIs to any frontend, including React and mobile apps, enabling complete full-stack JavaScript application development..
- Implement advanced backend features like pagination, filtering, sorting, search, and file uploads for dynamic, scalable applications..
- Secure your applications with JWT auth, bcrypt, Helmet, and validation while following best practices for environment and error management..
Course Content
- Why Learn Backend API Development with MERN? –> 3 lectures • 13min.
- Getting Started: RESTful APIs and the MERN Stack Toolkit –> 3 lectures • 10min.
- Setting Up Your Backend: Project Initialization & Structure Best Practices –> 3 lectures • 18min.
- Building Your First API: Routes, Middleware & Development Tools –> 3 lectures • 10min.
- Structuring Your Backend: MVC Architecture & Clean Code Practices –> 3 lectures • 19min.
- Integrating MongoDB: Connecting Your API to the Cloud Database –> 3 lectures • 30min.
- Building CRUD APIs: Managing Job Resources with Mongoose –> 4 lectures • 30min.
- Enhancing API Responses: Pagination, Filtering & Sorting –> 3 lectures • 14min.
- Securing Your API: Authentication, Authorization & Access Control –> 4 lectures • 36min.
- Robust APIs: Validating Data and Handling Errors Gracefully –> 2 lectures • 6min.
- File Uploads in APIs: Handling Media with Multer & Cloudinary –> 3 lectures • 19min.
- Email Notifications: Automating Communication with Nodemailer –> 2 lectures • 17min.
- Environment Configuration & Securing Your Backend API –> 2 lectures • 7min.
- Finalizing Your Project: Testing, Deployment & API Documentation” –> 3 lectures • 22min.
Requirements
Backend API Development with MERN Stack – Build Real-World Projects
Are you ready to master backend development and build your own RESTful APIs from scratch? In this hands-on course, you’ll learn how to create powerful, production-ready APIs using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) — one of the most in-demand tech stacks in today’s job market.
This course is perfect for developers, freelancers, and aspiring full-stack engineers who want to understand how backend systems work, build complete APIs that connect to any frontend (React, mobile apps, etc.), implement real-world features like authentication, file uploads, and email notifications, and deploy their backend applications to the cloud using modern tools and best practices.
What You’ll Build
You’ll work on real-world projects including a RESTful Job Portal API, a full authentication system using JWT, file upload and email notification features, and clean backend architecture following MVC principles. You will also learn to deploy your backend to Vercel and connect to MongoDB Atlas. As an extra, you’ll document your API using Postman.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to set up Node.js and Express from scratch, structure scalable backend projects, work with MongoDB using Mongoose, and handle CRUD operations with best practices. You’ll also learn to secure your API through proper validations, centralized error handling, and implement essential features like authentication, file uploads, and email notifications. Finally, you’ll deploy your projects and connect them to a live database in production.
Whether you’re aiming for a full-time development role, want to offer backend services as a freelancer, or build complete applications for your own startup, this course equips you with the practical skills and confidence to do so.
Enroll today and take the next step toward becoming a backend development expert.