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Hey, guys.

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Welcome to my Mern stack from scratch.

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Course.

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So this is a hands on, no nonsense course where we build an e-commerce platform from scratch called

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Pro Shop using the mern stack, which is MongoDB, Express, React and NodeJS.

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And this is not really a course for beginners.

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If you didn't know what Mern stood for, I probably wouldn't suggest this course.

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You should have at least some experience with React and maybe some basic skills with NodeJS.

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And I do have a course called React Front to back and I'd suggest starting there if you're an absolute

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beginner.

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So this is a single project course and the project is pretty big, pretty in depth.

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We'll be creating an e-commerce shop where users can browse and search products, add them to their

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shopping cart, and then go through a four step checkout process to create an order and then pay for

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that order using PayPal as well as a credit or debit card.

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So we'll have full authentication.

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Users can register and log in and they can manage their profiles, view their orders.

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We're also going to be adding admin functionality where admins can manage products, orders and users,

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and there will also be a rating and review system.

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And I'm going to give you a full demo in the next video, but you're going to learn a lot of practical

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knowledge for creating your own applications.

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And obviously we'll be using the Mern stack, but we'll also be using other technologies like Redux

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and Redux Toolkit, Mongoose and some other smaller NPM packages as well.

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And this is actually the second version of this course and this this application and the code has really

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been cleaned up from the first version, most of it thanks to Redux Toolkit, because in the first version

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we just used Redux and Managing State got a little bit tricky.

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So Redux Toolkit does a lot for us and gives us a nice, easy workflow when it comes to managing our

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front end state.

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And we'll also be using Json web tokens, but instead of saving them in local storage like we did in

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the first version, which can be a security issue, we'll be storing them in an Http only cookie on

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the server.

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So a lot of the mechanics have changed since the first version.

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Now if you make it through this course and you build and deploy this project, you're definitely ready

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to start looking for positions as a full stack developer, at least in my own opinion.

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And some people will watch a few crash courses, build a to do list and think they're ready and maybe

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some people can get away with that.

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But I think most people need to build at least one real life project before going and getting looking

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for for a positions.

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And I think you guys will really enjoy the course.

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And again, it's really not for beginners.

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I don't want to lie to you and say that anyone can take this course as long as you know the fundamentals

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of React and JavaScript in general and maybe a little bit of experience with Node and Express, then

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you'll be absolutely fine.

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So in the next video, I'm going to give you a full demo of the project.

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So let's take a look.