5 Free Tutorials You Should Complete to Master the Back-End

Recently, I came across an article, which listed famous frameworks for Back-End Development. In this regard, I compiled this piece of information for beginners. It contains a short intro of framework in discussion, usage in industry and free tutorial which beginners can use to master that framework.

So, let's dive in!

1. Express :

Due to skyrocketing popularity of Node.js, Express is quickly becoming one of the most trending frameworks nowadays.

Express provides a fast, minimal and quick API to make RESTful APIs. It's relatively easier to setup and is easy to learn.

Usage in Industry : Popular in Accenture, Uber, IBM and many other companies.

Tutorial : Express.js & Node.js for Beginners - Full Tutorial

2. Django :

Django is an MVC framework of Python. It's also one of the most popular frameworks of the modern times.

It provides built-in APIs and generic classes for building secure web applications.

Usage in Industry : Google, YouTube, Instagram and many other companies.

Tutorial : Python Django Web Framework - Full Course for Beginners

3. Rails :

Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License.

Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages. It encourages and facilitates the use of web standards such as JSON or XML for data transfer, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for user interfacing.

In addition to MVC, Rails emphasizes the use of other well-known software engineering patterns and paradigms, including convention over configuration (CoC), don't repeat yourself (DRY), and the active record pattern.

Usage in Industry : Popular in Airbnb, GitHub, Hulu, Shopify and many other companies.

Tutorial : Rails Beginner's Tutorial

4. Laravel :

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller architectural pattern and based on Symfony.

Usage in Industry : Popular in 9GAG, Pfizer, BBC, Shopify and many other companies.

Tutorial : Laravel PHP Framework Tutorial - Full Course for Beginners

5. Spring Boot:

Spring Boot is a Model-View-Controller framework that uses Java, the all-time popular language.

Spring Boot possesses many sister projects that boost its performance and let you scale your business quickly. The fact that it uses Java, a strongly typed language, is a severe pro to many web developers. The learning curve might be quite steep tho, especially if you don’t know Java.

Usage in Industry : Websites like Wix, TicketMaster, and BillGuard are users of this framework.

Tutorial : Spring Boot Tutorial for Beginners

Happy Learning !!!

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Comments

[Deepak Raj]

Little Correction:- Django is MVT not MVC.

The Model-View-Template (MVT) is slightly different from MVC.

[Uuk San]

Why there is no GoLang?

[Saeed Ahmad]

Totally forgot it at that time. But I also feel C# and Go should be in the list.

[Boris Jamot ✊ /]

Spring is not SpringBoot 😉

[Antonio Djigo]

If someone is interested in Rails, maybe a look to my post would help C:

I just want to be a Ruby on Rails Developer - How to get started

Antonio Djigo ・ Dec 3 '19 ・ 5 min read

#beginners #career #ruby #webdev

[TrasherDK]

Sadly, I got click-baited again by a headline from dev.to

The title should have said How to avoid mastering the back-end using middleware.

[Safin Ghoghabori]

I am confused in between node.js and django and Laravel. Which i have to prefer.?
Actually i am BCA student. Still i am learning new and new language. Although i can't develope any complete website as my own hand. So give me best advise please.

[Saeed Ahmad]

Hey. Thanks for your comment. I think if you are good on JS, then you should pick up Node.js . Django and Laravel are good but they are a bit complicated when compared to Node.js . Then, practice on it so that you can develop a complete web app. In this way, you will feel more confident.

[Safin Ghoghabori]

First of thank uh for your reply. Btw it means i should learn node.js right. And if i want to be full stack developer based on it,then which languages i should also learn. Or from these which should i learn first ?tell me also this.

[Juan J Cadima]

It is good to know these frameworks or at least learn 2 of them.
I work mainly with Laravel and recently getting into django and was surprised at how similar they are, also RoR. Although at the moment i am working only with PHP based frameworks, getting familiar with one or 2 will not only give you a different point of view. Also it will help you jump ship if that time comes later in your career.

[Simon Brown]

Note to newbies: don't get intimidated if you don't know them all by tomorrow. Just make a start.
Note to oldies like me: always a good idea to learn new stuff and this is a great list to start with.
Thanks Saeed.

[Rachel Soderberg]

What about C#? Surprised at the lack of mention since the title claims doing these will help you "Master the Back-End" - C# is the preferred language used for Windows backend development...

[Saeed Ahmad]

Hey Rachel. Thanks for your comment. But my article is more focused towards new trends. So, I don't think it is a good idea for a junior to learn C#, if he's starting backend nowadays.

[Rachel Soderberg]

If I may make a suggestion then, I'd change the title to something that indicates that it's focused on trending frameworks/stacks.

As for not suggesting a Junior to learn C#, why not? That's where I started about a year and a half ago and it's treated me very well so far.

[Saeed Ahmad]

Yeah Rachel. I think that it's great if you have enjoyed working with C#, but my personal opinion in this regard is that one should look forward to learn JS or Python. I think that JavaScript has great ecosystem and also you can move on to hybrid or cross-platform like React Native, Ionic or NativeScript. Plus for Python, I recommend it because of it's extensive usage in Data Science and ML.So, if you work on these languages there's a great chance that you would stumble upon something different which may help you in long term in your career. However, overall I think one needs to be familiar with general programming concepts and once you are done with that you can harness the power of any programming language to solve problems. Yeah exactly, it's more about trending frameworks.