100+ FREE Resources to Learn Full Stack Web Development

A year and a half ago I dove into Web Development. It’s been a fun, but challenging journey. As my knowledge continues to grow, I’ve realized I have a plethora of free information that I’ve saved along the way. It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally gone through and sorted them all. My links focus on JavaScript, React, and Node.js. It’s a mix of articles, tutorials, classes, discussion posts, and courses. **Everything is Free.** There is also a wealth of information on knowing when you’re ready to apply for jobs, interview prep, success stories, and more. Whether you’re just starting to learn, or you’ve been learning for a while, there should be a little something for everyone in here. You can find all 100+ links in my or by reading below: GitHub Repo , Table of Contents Start Here How to learn What is the Most Useful CS Bookmark You have Programs & Classes Learn HTML Learn CSS Learn JavaScript Learn React.js Full Stack Tutorials Learn Node.js Learn APIs Learn Databases Learn Authentication Learn Git Games & Challenge Websites Free Programming Books Open Source Contribution Opportunities Am I Ready to be a Developer? Software Developer Success Stories Resume’s, Portfolio’s, LinkedIn, Interview Prep, & Salary Information Start Here Take a look at the big picture: Web Developer Roadpath YouTube video outlining what to learn (similar to above, but in video format) — Watch this if you want to become a web developer (Medium) My journey to becoming a web developer from scratch without a CS degree (and what I learned from it) What happens when you type google into your address bar? [Reddit Link] Tuts Plus — The http protocol every web developer must know Find a local Web Development related Meetup! How to Learn How to Learn. Coursera Course (Not CS Specific) — Learning how to learn Repetition, Repetition, Repetition — A great discussion on study techniques Reddit Post What is the Single most useful CS Bookmark you have? What is the single most useful CS Bookmark you have? [Reddit Link] Learn X in Y Minutes What CS Majors Should Know Google’s Technical Development Guide CSS Tricks — Complete Flexbox Guide Regex Cheat Sheet DevDocs Awesome List of Everything Programming How to Break Into the Tech Industry — a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews Programs and Classes Programs The Odin Project freeCodeCamp The Essential Web Developer Course Classes — SANITIZED list of 530+ free online programming/CS courses (MOOCs) with feedback(i.e. exams/homeworks/assignments) that you can start this month (December 2016) Needs Updating Udacity Free Web Development Courses (Google) Assorted Reddit Links Tutorial/Screencast: Let’s Learn Algorithms: An Intro to Binary Search Thoughts on Coding Boot camps The Complete Guide to Bootcamps Self Study — My programming notes. 275 Pages of Content [Updated Reddit Link] [Original Reddit Link] JavaScript / Node / Angular 1 & 2 / React / Elm / C# / PHP / SQL / Git Google Drive Watch And Code — Learn Regular Expressions RegexOne Google University GitHub Repo Learn HTML Anyone have any cool HTML links? Open a PR on the GitHub Repo and add them! Learn CSS Everything you need to know about Flexbox Seriously the best Flexbox resource I’ve found A visual guide to CSS — CSS Reference — A collection of tips to help take your CSS skills pro. CSS Pro Tips 10 principles for smooth web animations Learn JavaScript JavaScript Docs Courses/Tutorials Courses.AngularClass.com — Topics Include: webpack, nodejs, npm, es5, es6, esnext, & rxjs, typescript [Course Link] [Reddit Post] Edabit — Learn JavaScript With Interactive Challenges: Earn XP, Unlock Achievements & Climb The Leaderboard [Edabit — Website Link] [Reddit Post] Free Advanced JavaScript Courses — Learn Object Oriented Programming, Call Apply, and Bind, Testing, Functional Programming, and much more Intermediate Course — Udacity — OOP JS Projects JS 30 For 30–30 Projects for 30 Days Learn to Code with Projects — enlight.ml — TONS of links to JS resources 13 Weeks of JavaScript (Medium) Articles/Books Recursion, Recursion, Recursion (Medium) — Free JavaScript Ebook Eloquent JS — Free, hosted on GitHub You don’t know JS — learn about the quirky parts of JS JavaScript Garden JS — The Good Parts .pdf — Reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems Learning js Design patterns Asynchronous Module Definition Learn React JS Official React Docs Official React Tutorial 3rd Party Tutorials 10 React Mini Patterns Top 5 Tutorials for getting started with React 10 best ReactJS tutorials React Starter Project Search — Article Exploring the react Ecosystem! Code academy React program — Use this link first Great Free React books Medium Links: React Components, Elements, and Instances (Medium) Working with React Beginners guide to React Router (Medium) Angular JS vs React JS (Medium) Full Stack Tutorials Intro to Back End Web Development Deploying Applications with Heroku Client Server Communication is a comprehensive guide to creating full-stack serverless applications. Create a note taking app from scratch using React.js, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Cognito. Serverless Stack Express — Using a DB with Mongoose Node JS and Databases Node JS and Authentication Express JS Database Integration MERN Stack Tutorial — Mongo, Express, React, Node MongoDB MERN Tutorial Series Full Stack MERN Tutorial — YouTube Build a URL Shortener with Node, Hapi, and Mongo How to Create a Complete Express.js + Node.js + MongoDB CRUD and REST Skeleton — Part 1, 2 Building web app using react.js, express.js, node.js and mongodb — 12 parts Trello tribute with Phoenix, React, Redux, PostgreSQL Create a character voting app using React, Node.js, MongoDB and Socket.IO Building a React Universal Blog App: A Step-by-Step Guide Building a Secure RESTful Node.js app Cool stuff other people have built: Belgian Beer Explorer with React, Bootstrap, Node.js and Postgres 90 Full Stack React Examples (some with tuts) Learn Node JS Official Node.js Docs Best Resources for learning Node.js [Reddit Link] YouTube Node School Medium — Why the hell would you use Node? Building a modern backend API with Node Node JS Login with Passport — YouTube 10 Best Practices for Writing Node.js REST APIs Learn APIs Where to start with learning APIs [Reddit Link] What is an API? In English Please. (Medium) Build Node.js RESTful APIs in 10 Minutes Free Intro to APIs Book/Course by Zapier Google Maps API Distance Calculator Web Services API Build and Secure a Backend API Server Learn Databases SQL vs NoSQL — SQL, DB-API, and More! Intro to Relational Databases — Numerous classes on learning MongoDB MongoDB University PostgreSQL Tutorial PostgreSQL Exercises Learn PostgreSQL (GitHub) Try Redis Redis Tutorial Learn Authentication Authentication & Authorization: OAuth Learn about JSON Web Tokens OAuth 2 Passwordless Authentication with React and Auth0 Learn Git Official — Learn Git in 15 Minutes Tutorial Official Docs Other Tuts: Git, the simple guide Learn Git Branching — Level by Level learning Learn Git in 30 Minutes — Article Here are all the Git commands I used last week and what they do (Medium) Why to Use GIT No, I have no side projects to show you Games and Challenge Websites Games to learn Programming in an easy and fun way [Reddit Link] Flex Box Froggy Flex Box Defense Edabit Coding Game Elevator Saga — JS Scratch — Absolute Basics Hacked — Mobile App teaching through puzzles Coding Challenge Websites [Reddit Link] [Reddit Link #2] Medium — 10 most popular coding challenge sites of 2016 Codechef Code Wars Coding Game Hacker Rank (some debate about this being good/bad Project Euler (math focus) Exercism Free Programming Books O’Reilly Offering Programming eBooks for Free (Reddit) GitHub — Thousands of free programming Books on every topic Non-Technical Books to make you a better Programmer (Reddit) Open Source Contribution Opportunities — The official GitHub guide. Contributing to Open Source on GitHub Make your first open source contribution in 5 minutes How do I get skilled enough to work on open source projects? , an open source project to learn programming and a good opportunity to get you started contributing on github. Exercism Open Source Contribution Opportunites [Reddit Discussion] Redditor Form to fill out to get notified about Open Source Opportunities Up For Grabs — Browse a list of projects with curated tasks — Open source activity held every October. Easy to participate, and you get a free t-shirt! Hacktoberfest I’m afraid if I say anything on GitHub people will laugh at me and I will die. Am I Ready to be a Developer? Self taught front end devs… When did you know that you were “Job ready”? People who are self-taught developers, how long did it take you to get your first job? When do you know when you’re ready to start interviewing? Software developers- what is the best advice you have for people learning CS? I want a career in programming What should you know as a web dev just out of college? Reddit Discussion — newer What CS Majors Should Know — older How I got started with Side Projects — link What are some goals a beginning Self-Taught Developer should have? Computer programmers of Reddit, what is your best advice to someone who is currently learning how to code? I began teaching myself to code a year ago. I got hired at my first job 4 months ago. Here is a breakdown of somethings I was not ready for (FYI job is remote ruby/rails dev) Software Developer Success Stories 18 months ago I didn’t know how to code, I’m now a self-taught programmer who’s made apps for the NBA, NHL, and schools like Purdue, Notre Dame, Alabama and Clemson. I’m now releasing my software under the MIT license for anyone’s use — AMA! Last year I was unemployed and miserable. Using this sub and resources, I’ve been full time employed for a year. I did it with all free resources. I wanna share with you how I did it. (IOS) I began teaching myself to code a year ago. I got hired at my first job 4 months ago. Here is a breakdown of somethings I was not ready for (FYI job is remote ruby/rails dev) I’m 32 years old, and just started my first full-time job as a developer. One year ago my programming knowledge was basically nil. Everything I learned, I found via /r/learnprogramming, so just wanted to share my experience. From zero to software developer — Not really a success story, but a lot of redditors share how they learned. Great for beginners with no path Get The Job Resume, Portfolio, LinkedIn, Interview Prep, and Salary Information How to Apply I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. (Medium) Lessons from my Post-bootcamp Job search (Medium) How to land a six figure job in tech with no connections (Medium) Resume & LinkedIn What are some of the best resuмe formats you’ve seen? Model examples for Fullstack Developer LinkedIn profiles Personal Projects Recruiters, what kind of CS projects impress? Interview Prep CS50 — Prep and Practice for Technical Interviews [YouTube] How to Break Into the Tech Industry — a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews Common JavaScript Interview Questions Repo GitHub Repo — All questions and answers Reddit Post — Discussion, with additional questions and answers Ammon Bartram — Ask an interviewer anything: interview questions, answers, mistakes Sharing some interview tips (Silicon valley employee) Job interview questions to ask the interviewer I suck at programming interviews. When solving an interview problem, talk all the time. Hiring managers (or other seasoned developers), what qualities do you look for in your ideal candidate? Post your best interview questions Been interviewing with a lot of tech startups as a frontend dev, here are the technical questions I’ve been asked (MID-SENIOR LEVEL) 10 Interview Questions every JS Developer should know (Medium) Salary Information 12/2016 Salary Sharing Thread (<2 yrs Experience) Salary Negotiations and how not to set a bunch of money on fire (Medium) 10 Rules for negotiating a job offer (Medium) How not to bomb your offer negotiation (Medium)