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45 lessons · Routing, middleware, validation, auth habits, ship

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Overview

45 lessons · Routing, middleware, validation, auth habits, ship

Across 6 weeks (30 hours of live + project work) you’ll move from fundamentals to shipping a real, production-grade project — guided by Tigran Hakobyan and the beeon.academy mentor team.

Learning outcomes

What you will learn

Build routers with clear HTTP verbs and status codes
Order middleware intentionally; limit body parsers
Validate at the edge and centralize error mapping
Layer routes/services and ship with health + env habits
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Lessons

45 lessons · all open, start with any
  1. 1Minimal HTTP framework, maximal responsibility26 min
  2. 2Express vs raw http.createServer24 min
  3. 3Hello app without cargo-cult folders24 min
  4. 4When a thinner or heavier stack wins22 min
  5. 5Request → middleware chain → response26 min
  6. 6Course map: route → middleware → validate → ship22 min
  7. 7app.get / app.post as the first verbs26 min
  8. 8Route params and query without blind trust26 min
  9. 9express.Router for feature boundaries28 min
  10. 10Nested mounts without spaghetti paths24 min
  11. 11PUT, PATCH, DELETE with honest semantics24 min
  12. 12404 that is intentional, not accidental22 min
  13. 13Workshop: /api/notes CRUD skeleton28 min
  14. 14Middleware as the unit of cross-cutting work28 min
  15. 15Order matters more than clever names26 min
  16. 16express.json and express.urlencoded with limits26 min
  17. 17express.static without oversharing22 min
  18. 18Third-party middleware with a shopping list26 min
  19. 19Custom middleware that stays boring28 min
  20. 20Workshop: request-id + logger middleware28 min
  21. 21Reading req without inventing fields24 min
  22. 22res.json / res.status / res.send with intent26 min
  23. 23Response headers that product needs24 min
  24. 24Streaming responses when payloads get big24 min
  25. 25Workshop: consistent JSON envelope26 min
  26. 26Central error middleware instead of try/catch spaghetti28 min
  27. 27Async handlers that do not lose rejections26 min
  28. 28Validate input at the edge28 min
  29. 29Status codes as a product language24 min
  30. 30Workshop: validate body + central error map28 min
  31. 31Auth as middleware, not copy-paste ifs26 min
  32. 32Sessions and cookies without cargo-cult secrets26 min
  33. 33CORS that matches real frontends24 min
  34. 34Rate limiting as a boring default24 min
  35. 35Workshop: helmet + cors + auth gate sketch28 min
  36. 36Routes thin, services thick26 min
  37. 37Config and env without hardcoding ports24 min
  38. 38DB access behind a repository seam26 min
  39. 39Structured logs you can grep in production24 min
  40. 40Workshop: routes / services / config folders28 min
  41. 41Test HTTP without only curling manually26 min
  42. 42Production habits: trust proxy, timeouts, clustering notes24 min
  43. 43Deploy: process manager, env on host, healthcheck24 min
  44. 44Playbook: tiny Express API from zero28 min
  45. 45Practice loop for next week22 min
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    What you need to start

    Requirements

    • Comfortable with JavaScript and basic HTTP
    • Node.js installed locally
    • No prior Express experience required
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    Tigran Hakobyan

    Backend Mentor · beeon.academy

    Instructor at beeon.academy. Express.js path (ArT): 45 lessons through middleware ship habits.

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