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Full-Stack Engineering Roadmap

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Path Progress (1/11 Completed)9% Mastery

Beginner

Fundamentals

+100 XP 45 mins

1. Node.js Fundamentals & Event Loop Architecture

V8 Engine JIT execution, single-threaded Event Loop architecture, Call Stack, Microtasks, and libuv threads.

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Beginner

Fundamentals

+120 XP 50 mins

2. Modules, File System, Buffers & Streams

CommonJS vs ESM, asynchronous fs module, EventEmitter reactive patterns, Buffers & stream piping.

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Intermediate

Frameworks

+150 XP 60 mins

3. Express.js Architecture & Middleware Mechanics

Production web server design, request-response pipeline, custom middleware, and error boundaries.

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Intermediate

Architecture

+150 XP 55 mins

4. REST API Design & Zod Input Validation

RESTful HTTP principles, status codes, controller-service-repository patterns, and input schemas with Zod.

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Intermediate

Databases

+200 XP 75 mins

5. PostgreSQL Relational Databases & Prisma ORM

Relational modeling, primary & foreign keys, SQL joins, database migrations, and Prisma ORM client queries.

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Advanced

Security

+250 XP 80 mins

6. Auth: Password Hashing, JWT & Security

bcrypt salt hashing, signed JWT access tokens, refresh token rotation, CORS, Helmet headers, and rate limiting.

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Advanced

Architecture

+220 XP 70 mins

7. High Performance In-Memory Caching with Redis

In-memory key-value caching, Cache-Aside strategy, TTL expiration, distributed rate limiting, and Pub/Sub.

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Advanced

DevOps

+250 XP 75 mins

8. Containerization with Docker & Compose

Package Node.js apps into minimal Alpine Docker containers, multi-stage builds, and Docker Compose networking.

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Advanced

Architecture

+300 XP 90 mins

9. System Design, Microservices & High-Scale Infra

Horizontal scaling, Nginx load balancing, message queues (RabbitMQ/BullMQ), microservices, and production infra.

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