Zachary Morel
Jul 30, 2017 · 2 min read

Just Node.Js

Well shouldn’t that be enough? Anyone whom has written any Backend language before has a good understanding at where i’m hinting at. Node is straight bonkers!!

Anyone relate? Yeah, it’s awesome! I’m currently at the end of 5 weeks of a 16 week Immersive coding Bootcamp at The Iron Yard. We’re achieving the Full-Stack programming specialize. So, the past 4 weeks before this last week we lived in the Front-end world. We conquered the front end fundamentals, creating and interacting with the DOM, whether, that was static of dynamic code. Now we get to enjoy the back-end fundamentals with Node.js. Which has been a pleasure for the first wee of Backend…

The Back-end is sweet, super challenging. I and many other students found it hard to wrap our head around some of the basic starting points of the Backend. A lot of backend so far seems to require us to imagine the way our code is working to an extent before we really see results. With the frontend , results were easy to see, a little CSS here and there and BAM! I like the Back-end though process. Challenge accepted.

Monday we learned how to implement rendering and designing the DOM from the server side. Wednesday and Thursday brought Forms and validations! We’re also using the Node library Express and Mustache. Monday, we get to play with Session! Rumor is that Databases are coming…

So Backend isn’t easy, but since when has Programming ever been?

After Back-end we get to specialize. Ohh the decisions. We get 6 weeks in either REACT, Node.js, Java, #C/.Net, or Ruby. Any Devs out there have any suggestions or advice?

Cheers,

Zach

Zachary Morel

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Software Developer React && React Native, husband, father, craft beer enthusiast, nerd!