Typed API with authentication
Deliverable: A Node and Express API with JWT authentication, refresh tokens, validated routes and a MongoDB schema, tested with a suite that runs from the command line.
Course
MEAN Stack Development
The Angular-based JavaScript stack, taught with TypeScript and structure throughout — the version of full stack work that large teams and enterprise projects hire for.
- Duration: 7 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Write TypeScript confidently, including generics and typed interfaces
- Build Angular applications with components, services and dependency injection
- Handle asynchronous data with RxJS observables rather than nested callbacks
- Build REST APIs with Node.js and Express, including auth and validation
- Model data in MongoDB and know when a relational database would be better
- Test, build and deploy the whole stack to a public URL
Who this course is for
- Graduates and final-year students in any discipline
- Developers who know some JavaScript and want a structured front end
- Working professionals targeting enterprise application teams
- Basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript familiarity is expected
Syllabus
7 modules · 7 months
Module 1. TypeScript first
- Types, interfaces and why they pay for themselves
- Generics and utility types
- Modules, decorators and configuration
- Migrating JavaScript thinking to typed thinking
Module 2. Angular fundamentals
- Components, templates and data binding
- Directives, pipes and the component lifecycle
- Services and dependency injection
- Modules, lazy loading and application structure
Module 3. Angular in depth
- Reactive forms and validation
- Routing, guards and resolvers
- HTTP client and interceptors
- State management, and when it is worth the ceremony
Module 4. RxJS
- Observables, operators and subscription management
- Combining streams and avoiding nested subscriptions
- Debounce, switchMap and a working search box
- Memory leaks, and unsubscribing properly
Module 5. Node.js and Express
- The event loop and non-blocking work
- Routing, middleware and error handling
- Authentication with JWT and refresh tokens
- Validation, rate limiting and sensible API design
Module 6. MongoDB
- Documents, collections and schema design
- Mongoose models, relationships and population
- Indexes and the aggregation pipeline
- When a document store is the wrong choice
Module 7. Testing and delivery
- Unit testing components and services
- Testing an API endpoint
- Build optimisation and bundle size
- Deploying front end and API, and reading production logs
Tools and technologies you will use
- Angular
- TypeScript
- Node.js and Express
- MongoDB and Mongoose
- RxJS
- Jasmine, Karma and Git
Projects you will build
Angular application
Deliverable: A multi-route Angular application with reactive forms, route guards, an HTTP interceptor attaching the auth token, and lazy-loaded feature modules.
Reactive search
Deliverable: A search interface built with RxJS using debounce and switchMap so that rapid typing produces one request rather than twelve, with the network panel as evidence.
Deployed full stack application
Deliverable: Front end and API both deployed and talking to each other at public URLs, with environment configuration separated from code.
Where this course can take you
- Angular Developer
- Full Stack Developer
- Frontend Engineer
- Node.js 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. Hosting for the deployed projects uses free-tier services wherever possible.
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
MEAN or MERN — the only difference that matters
Both stacks are JavaScript end to end. Both use Node, Express and a database. The front end is the entire distinction.
React, in the MERN course, is a library. It is quicker to start with, dominates startup and product hiring, and leaves structural decisions to you and your team.
Angular, here, is a framework. It arrives with opinions about structure, dependency injection, forms and routing, and it is common in enterprise, banking and large internal applications where a hundred developers benefit from those decisions already being made.
Neither is better. Look at ten job advertisements for companies you would actually like to work at, count the two words, and pick accordingly.
TypeScript comes first for a reason
Angular is written in TypeScript and fights you if you resist it.
So the first module is types, interfaces and generics before a single component. This front-loads difficulty and it is the right trade — most people who bounce off Angular are actually bouncing off untyped thinking colliding with a typed framework.
RxJS gets its own module
The single most common Angular mistake is subscribing inside a subscription, and the second is never unsubscribing at all.
Both produce applications that work in a demo and leak memory in production. The
reactive search project exists to make the good pattern concrete: type quickly
into a box, and the network panel shows one request rather than twelve. Once you
have seen that, switchMap stops being an incantation.
Knowing when MongoDB is wrong
A document store is excellent for data that is naturally nested and read together, and a poor fit for data full of relationships that need transactional integrity.
The database module covers both halves honestly. Reaching for PostgreSQL when the problem calls for it is a mark of judgement, and the developers who never learned that are the ones maintaining collections of documents that should have been four tables.
Questions
MEAN Stack Development — frequently asked questions
Should I learn MEAN or MERN?
MERN uses React, MEAN uses Angular, and that is the whole difference that matters. React dominates startup and product hiring and is faster to become productive in. Angular is more common in enterprise, banking and large internal applications, is more opinionated and imposes structure a big team benefits from. Count the job advertisements for the companies you actually want to work at.
Is Angular harder than React?
The first month is harder, yes — TypeScript, dependency injection, modules and RxJS all arrive at once, where React lets you build something on day two. After that the curves cross, because Angular decides most structural questions for you and React leaves them to the team. Neither is objectively better; they front-load the difficulty differently.
Do I need to know JavaScript before starting?
Yes, at a basic level — variables, functions, arrays, objects and how the DOM works. The course starts with TypeScript rather than with JavaScript itself. If you have not written any JavaScript, take the Web Development course first; arriving without it makes the first two months unnecessarily hard.
Is MongoDB always the right database?
No, and the sixth module says so explicitly. Document stores suit data that is naturally nested and read together; they suit data with lots of relationships and transactional integrity much less well. Knowing when to reach for PostgreSQL or MySQL instead is more valuable than any MongoDB feature.
Enquire about MEAN Stack Development
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- MERN Stack Development
One language across the whole stack, taught as a connected system — including the judgement about when a document database is the wrong choice, which most MERN courses never raise.
- 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.
- Web Development
The foundation everything else sits on — semantic HTML, CSS layout and JavaScript — taught until you can build and deploy a responsive, accessible site without reaching for a framework.
- SQL and Databases
SQL taught against a database big enough that a bad query is noticeably slow, because toy datasets hide performance entirely and performance is half of what the job tests.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.