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Side projects (sometimes) pay off

Stipe Grbić on February 28, 2024

Having a side project every now and then is beneficial in many ways. Recently I had such positive experience from some of my side projects that are...
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Utkarsh Hadgekar

Hey, its was awesome to know about your Experience. I'm trying to specialize in Nodejs to get a full time job role. can you recommend some projects or resources that I can Follow ? Truly Appreciate your Help!

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Stipe Grbić

Hi, thanks for reading my post. Unfortunately I don't have a recommendation to you that would be better than just searching the web. I'm not a Node.js developer so I don't have better resources or community to recommend.
To learn there are sites like Udemy or Pluralsight.
To find projects, go for some of your own interests, or search for open source Node.js projects on GitHub for example.

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Shawn2208

Good book to read is The comprehensive guide NodeJs by Rheinwerk computing.
What do you need to know about NodeJS? anything specific ?

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Utkarsh Hadgekar

I'm trying to get a job as a backend dev. specificially what skills/frameworks in backend for nodejs I need to learn for that, and what kind of projects should I build ?

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Shawn2208

I would say create API's, Full ecommerce backend, some sort of email backend for your portfolio, Also a project that has a authentication so then you can build a full authentication system with JWT etc. Web scrapers are good little first backend project.

u will need to just learn Nodejs in general and everything else will come in to play later. Start with a small project at first.

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Utkarsh Hadgekar

That's really a good approach. Thanks @shawn2208 !

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Fatemeh Paghar

Embracing side projects extends beyond immediate gains. The ability to respond affirmatively to a manager's query about Node.js expertise, cultivated over five years through a side project, exemplifies the timeless nature of learning. This showcases that delving into varied technologies out of curiosity, even if it seems unrelated to the current role, can serve as a reservoir of knowledge, enriching one's skill set in unexpected ways.

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Khang

Side projects always pay off, in many ways 😉

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Eckehard

It's always good to be curious...

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rujorgensen

I'm senior developer on a SASS project at my daytime job. Many of the technologies, utilities and migration paths we take, comes from things I developed experience with in my personal projects.