Master Building CLI Apps & APIs in Node.js
Discover the CLI to API roadmap to becoming a hired Node.js backend developer.
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Explore our practical, production-shaped courses that teach you exactly what you need next, one backend skill at a time.
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Build RESTful APIs in Node.js
Intermediate·4 branches·37 chapters
Learn how to build real database-backed and framework-powered RESTful APIs with MySQL, Sequelize, and Express.
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Build Layered Services in Node.js
Advanced·1 branch·10 chapters
Learn how to build well-structured, easily maintainable, and resilient microservices with the three-layer architecture.
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Build CLI Apps in JavaScript & Node.js
Beginner·4 branches·48 chapters
Learn how to build, integrate, and safeguard scalable CLI tools, scripts, and apps with JavaScript, Node.js, npm, and Git.
Most beginners don't know where to start, but we do
Learn Backend offers its students a no fluff, no BS roadmap that covers all the fundamental skills required to become a junior Node.js backend developer.
Forget about guesswork, it's leading you nowhere.
Our highly visual and interactive roadmap is your ultimate guide to becoming a standout junior Node.js backend developer.
Its tree-like structure is designed to outline the logical connection between all the individual skills you will need to master, and help you better understand how they fit into the bigger picture of backend development.
While each branch represents a fundamental topic or technology, each node represents a specific skill or concept that will serve as a stepping stone toward mastery.
Ultimately, adhering to the roadmap will ensure steady, strategic progress — so you learn in the right order, at the right time, without being overwhelmed.
More than 85% of self-taught devs never actually land a job
And it's not because they lack motivation, curiosity, or potential — but because they too often overlook the fundamentals.
Most beginners start learning to code with a dream — build an app, launch a side project, maybe change their life.
They spend months diving into tutorials, blogs, and forums trying to piece it all together on their own, only to end up overwhelmed, directionless, and burned out.
They jump from topic to topic — one day it's Node.js, the next APIs, the following databases — hoping it'll all eventually click.
But it never does.
The internet is flooded with disconnected, shallow, and often contradictory resources.
They grow impatient, skip the hard stuff, and waste their time scratching the surface of the latest trendy technology that will easily "do it all" for them.
In the end...
❌ They learn syntax, but not how to structure a program.
❌ They learn patterns, but not when or why to use them.
❌ They learn code, but not how to solve problems.
And it's not their fault.
No one ever showed them what to learn, when to learn, and how to learn.
What most beginners need isn't more content, more ideas, or more tools — it's a clear path forward.
One that helps them build a solid set of fundamental skills, teaches them how to think like a developer, and shows them how to solve real-life problems.
And that's exactly what Learn Backend delivers.
A clear, straightforward roadmap that helps complete beginners become standout junior Node.js backend developers.