Responsive multi-page front end
Deliverable: A deployed, accessible front end built from a design brief, passing keyboard navigation checks and scoring at least 95 on Lighthouse accessibility.
Course
Full Stack Development
Front end, back end, databases and deployment taught as one connected system, ending with applications you have shipped to a public URL and can walk an interviewer through.
- Duration: 7 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Build responsive, accessible interfaces with semantic HTML, modern CSS and React
- Design and build REST APIs in Node.js and Express with validation and error handling
- Model data in both SQL and MongoDB and justify which one a given feature needs
- Implement authentication, authorisation and session handling without rolling your own crypto
- Write tests that catch regressions and run them automatically on every push
- Deploy a full application with a database, environment configuration and a CI pipeline
Who this course is for
- Graduates from any stream who can commit to consistent practice between sessions
- Final-year engineering and computer applications students
- Career changers from non-technical roles — we start from HTML
- Testers, support engineers and designers moving into development
Syllabus
9 modules · 7 months
Module 1. Web foundations
- How the browser, DNS, HTTP and the server fit together
- Semantic HTML and why it decides your accessibility ceiling
- CSS layout with flexbox and grid
- Responsive design and mobile-first thinking
- Browser developer tools as a debugging instrument
Module 2. JavaScript in depth
- Types, scope, closures and the execution model
- Array and object methods you will use every day
- Promises, async/await and error propagation
- Modules, bundling and the module ecosystem
- TypeScript basics and why types pay for themselves
Module 3. React
- Components, props and the rendering model
- State, effects and when an effect is the wrong tool
- Forms, controlled inputs and validation
- Routing and code splitting
- Data fetching, caching and loading states
- Component composition and avoiding premature abstraction
Module 4. Back end with Node.js and Express
- The request lifecycle and middleware
- Designing a REST API that is predictable to consume
- Input validation and error handling as a contract
- File uploads, streaming and long-running work
- Structuring a server codebase that survives growth
Module 5. Databases
- Relational modelling and normalisation in PostgreSQL
- SQL queries, indexes and reading a query plan
- Document modelling in MongoDB
- Choosing between SQL and document stores per feature
- Migrations, seeding and managing schema change
Module 6. Authentication and security
- Sessions, cookies and JWTs, and the trade-offs between them
- Password storage, hashing and account recovery
- Role-based authorisation
- The OWASP Top Ten, demonstrated against your own code
- Secrets management and environment configuration
Module 7. Testing and continuous integration
- Unit, integration and end-to-end tests and what each is worth
- Testing React components without testing implementation details
- API testing against a real database
- GitHub Actions pipelines that block a broken merge
Module 8. Deployment and operations
- Containerising an application with Docker
- Deploying front end, back end and database
- Environment variables, build pipelines and rollbacks
- Logging, error tracking and reading production failures
Module 9. Portfolio and interview preparation
- Writing a README a reviewer will actually read
- Refactoring coursework into portfolio-quality repositories
- Data structures and JavaScript interview practice
- System design questions at the fresher and one-year level
Tools and technologies you will use
- HTML and CSS
- JavaScript (ES2023)
- TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- Git and GitHub
- Docker
- Vitest
- GitHub Actions
Projects you will build
REST API with authentication
Deliverable: A documented Express API with registration, login, role-based authorisation and validated endpoints, covered by an automated test suite that runs in CI.
Full stack application with a database
Deliverable: A complete application with a React front end, Express back end and persistent database, deployed to a public URL with environment configuration and a written architecture note.
Team build with code review
Deliverable: A feature built in a two-person team using branches and pull requests, with at least four substantive code reviews given and received, and a retrospective on what the review caught.
Where this course can take you
- Full Stack Developer
- Front End Developer
- Back End Developer
- MERN Stack Developer
- Software Engineer
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 7 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Share your details and an advisor will confirm the current fee.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Why the stack is taught as one system
A developer who knows React but has never designed the API behind it writes front ends that are awkward to serve. A developer who writes APIs without having consumed one writes endpoints that are awkward to use. The value of a full stack course is not two skill sets — it is understanding the seam between them, which is where most real bugs live.
That is why the database module comes after you have already written an API that needed one, and why the security module attacks code you wrote yourself in module four. The sequence is built so each concept arrives at the moment you have felt its absence.
Deployment is not the last week
Your first project is deployed in month two. Everything after that is deployed too. This is deliberate: deployment is where beginners discover that their application depends on something only present on their own machine, and discovering that four times over seven months is how it stops being a mystery.
What we expect from you
Ten hours a week between sessions, consistently. This is the single strongest predictor of who finishes with a portfolio and who finishes with notes. We would rather set that expectation now than at the midpoint.
Questions
Full Stack Development — frequently asked questions
Do I need a computer science degree to become a full stack developer?
No. This course starts from HTML and assumes no prior development experience. What it does assume is consistent practice — around ten hours a week between sessions. Learners from commerce and arts backgrounds complete it successfully every batch; learners who only attend class do not.
Should I learn the MERN stack or Java full stack?
Both lead to jobs. MERN uses one language across the whole stack, which makes the first six months considerably easier, and dominates startup and product-company hiring. Java full stack appears more in large enterprises and services companies. This course teaches MERN with PostgreSQL added, so you are not locked out of SQL roles.
How many projects will I actually have finished at the end?
Four, all deployed to public URLs, with the final one built collaboratively using pull requests and code review. Deployment is part of the deliverable rather than an optional extra, because an application that only runs on your laptop is difficult to discuss in an interview.
Is seven months realistic alongside a full-time job?
Yes, and most of our learners do exactly that. Classes run as weekday evening and weekend batches. The constraint is not class time but the practice hours between sessions — if you cannot find roughly ten hours a week, tell us and we will suggest a longer batch instead.
Will I learn TypeScript, or only JavaScript?
Both. JavaScript is taught in depth first, because TypeScript makes little sense until you have felt the problems it solves. TypeScript is introduced at the end of module two and used throughout the React and Node.js work after that, since most current job postings expect it.
Enquire about Full Stack Development
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
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Talk to a course advisor
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