MERN Stack Full Tutorial & Project | Complete All-in-One Course | 8 Hours

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This MERN Stack Full Tutorial & Project provides a complete all-in-one course with 8 hours of code and instruction to level up your web development skills. Think of this MERN Stack Full Tutorial Course as a full stack video textbook with 13 clearly defined chapters.
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MERN Stack Full Tutorial Course | Complete Full Stack Project | 8 Hours
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:00:05) Welcome
(00:00:42) Chapter 1: MERN Stack Project
(00:28:13) Chapter 2: Middleware
(00:56:04) Chapter 3: MongoDB
(01:24:59) Chapter 4: Controllers
(02:08:14) Chapter 5: React JS
(02:42:15) Chapter 6: Redux & RTK Query
(03:16:54) Chapter 7: React & Redux Forms
(04:08:36) Chapter 8: Authentication vs Authorization
(04:45:17) Chapter 9: Login Auth
(05:18:49) Chapter 10: JWT Auth
(06:00:59) Chapter 11: Roles & Permissions
(06:44:17) Chapter 12: Refactoring
(07:30:19) Chapter 13: Deployment
Corrections:
(05:35:28) Terminology 'labels' vs 'cache entries': When different values are placed here, different caches are created. In chapter 12 "Refactoring", we insure all queries use the same cache entry value to avoid creating additional caches.
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[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

A 40 second intro followed by nearly 8 hours of code and instruction to help you build a complete MERN Stack Project. I bookmarked all 13 chapters in the description. If you complete one lesson per day, you'll complete the full course in 13 days. Join my Discord server to discuss and ask questions: discord.gg/neKghyefqh

[@narenk8077]

is it mobile app

[@mahendranath2504]

Thanks 🙏🏻 so much 🤗 , I have been working and waiting for this so long complete video, you are awesome teacher 🫡

[@williamstamp5288]

having a really hard time trying to auth a new user after accidently deleting my users from mongodb. any time stamp in particular you could recommend

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

@@williamstamp5288 you will need to disable the VerifyJWT middleware temporarily in order to create a new user without a previously verified one.

[@williamstamp5288]

Thanks Dave. I figured that out shortly after I asked in the comments, but i really appreciate your response. Currently doing a software development in college and your content is invaluable. When I settle in for the evening I'll be contributing to your coffee fund. Cheers

[@qofi_1]

After taking this course and building my own MERN project, I got the confidence to put it on my resume and apply for jobs. Thanks to you, I got hired and currently employed. Dave, You are the best!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

That's the feedback I love to hear! Congrats!! 💯🚀

[@mainakmukhrjee6328]

Are you on Linkedin so that we can connect? I would love to learn more from your experience

[@dai180293]

I would love to able to see the project if possible? As someone who is currently learning It would be great to see a complete project

[@kenxinhxc1635]

sheeeeeeeesh

[@ALi-Sloom]

how the interview was? is it hard , are they ask you hard questions about (node ,express) backend? because I really don't understand the second part ( middleware ) the logger or error handler!

[@zombiefacesupreme]

I sincerely think that this is one of the best MERN tutorials on the web. I have done over 40 tutorials at this point both free and paid(I do not recommend), and very few people put forth the amount of effort and care that Dave did here-- especially in terms of the authentication process. I am constantly finding myself comparing other tutorials unfavorably to this one. Thanks for making this fantastic content for free, Dave! You're a gem!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the kind words and support! 🙏💯🚀

[@imadmoujahid3431]

40 tutorials it's too much,you stuck in tutorial hell ?

[@alexamancio6761]

Wow, 8 hours of free content. You sir deserve a lot more than a like.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you, Alex!

[@pukargautam2850]

Dave You are great!! I love this. One of the most understanding MERN Stack course that I have ever found on the internet.

[@bkatsevych]

You are gold! The whole world vocabulary doesn’t have enough words to express my gratitude! Thanks a lot for great tutorials!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're very welcome! 💯

[@djt6fan]

Dude, you're just churning out these tutorials like a child's play. Really appreciate all the knowledge I can soak up just by coding along with your instructions. As someone who's looking to get a dev job soon, I can't thank you enough! Please keep at it, you deserve way more recognition than what you already have!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome, Agramer! 💯

[@tomj6742]

Any update? Rooting for you!

[@MOJICA7257]

Thanks Dave! for your efforts in the community, We really appreciated it.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you so much for the support, Romar! 🙏💯

[@khoroshoigra8388]

galing nya no sir

[@itzevar2719]

I have followed many of Dave's courses and I can't wait to start this one because I know how good his tutorials are. Learnt a lot from this channel.....Thanks

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the kind words! 🙏💯

[@venkatakambam3792]

Thank you Dave. I am really grateful going through this course. Covered a lot topics...costly topics are ..Authentication,Authorization, Roles , Redux ,Hooks. And your continues delivery without break is appreciable .

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

🙏🙏

[@annusingh4694]

Very structured and made with care, thanks a ton Dave! It means a lot for us self-taught developers (wannabe).

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paulmenexas5431]

What a great set of videos, awesome job! Your videos have helped me a ton, especially with Redux and NodeJS. I would love to see another few chapters where this is all converted to typescript, keep up the great work

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the support, Paul! 💯🙏

[@togya4]

dave, words cant express about how I feel lerning from your course to reach the level im in now, if I only have money I would happily donate. your courses are just the Best

[@abdulmajeedhabboush]

I was like I'm not going to like this video until the end but then at minute 5, he was like let's start with user stories which is exactly what you'd do on the job and that's when I decided to like it anyways because that is what I call a legendary start. Legend dave

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Right on! 🤘

[@julianvogel6311]

Hey Dave, I really appreciate your work. You are one of the best JS teachers I have met so far =D if someday time allows i wanted to ask you if you would like to do some unit testing for one of your express projects. Or even in the frontend with the React testing library. Otherwise keep up the good work. Looking forward to your new videos=)

[@zombiefacesupreme]

Having done several other tutorials since completing this one (I've been really hustling), I will say that this is one of the few that I walked away from feeling like the creator used best practices for the most part. Great job again, Dave.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you very much! 🙏💯

[@pgallovich]

Wow! 🔥 I cannot wait to get through this entire course. I know I am going to learn so much. Thank you Dave!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@erfan5875]

Some times i wonder how are you good at everything you teach Dave. Thankyou for this awsome tutorial. you're an angle to developers.

[@kenxinhxc1635]

This guy would really change our lives if we have enough grit and dedication to learn

[@wirelesshospital4851]

loving the content and the way you teach

[@ParveshDograg]

Thanks Dave for create and share the complete MERN stack project. It's the best video to learn lot more skills in just a single video. Really appreatiate!

[@onethree123d]

Thank you so much for this course and the many others I took from you I really get the big picture of it all now!

[@melamelawen]

1 hour in and I'm very impressed by the quality and organization of your lessons. I would definitely buy your course if available. Thank you for providing this for free. Much love!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you! I hope to offer a premium course sometime in the future. 🚀

[@marconarca2706]

@@DaveGrayTeachesCode Do you have a typescript with react I would definitely to buy one

[@adlonymous]

@@marconarca2706 He has a vid on that kzbin.info/www/bejne/roW5go1qa9yWaJo

[@femiaros7811]

You are a blessed man Dave!. Your contents/teaching is so superb

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you!

[@akibahmed229]

I just finished your MERN Stack course, and I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your excellent instruction.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're very welcome!

[@alwynjohn597]

i don't know how u learns these all these thing this fast and make clear precise and informative tutorials. I really find hard to keep up with u. Thanks a lot for all the free content u have provided.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're very welcome!

[@onethree123d]

Okay starting with this today, funny how I started here months ago and realized I need to learn more but here I am. I really hope this goes well.

[@user-sl4us4we3b]

I love your code style so much!!!

[@jesseemana9598]

halfway through and this is excellent and well put together, kinda left out on most of the Redux parts since I stopped the Redux course halfway through but after this lesson it's back to Redux then revisit the frontend sections of this course, you're really changing lives my man, keep dropping gems💪

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you!

[@jesseemana9598]

@@DaveGrayTeachesCode so I've been working on a project and built my API following most concepts from this lesson, everything works perfect in Postman but I'm having issues with the logout route in my frontend, when I make a request to the logout route it says unauthorized in browser console but in the node console it seems to be working and the logger shows the logout request has been made with no errors, this is my function handling logout in the frontend const LOGOUT_URL = '/auth/logout' const handleLogout = async () => { try { await axios.post(LOGOUT_URL, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }}) dispatch(setLogout()) redirect('/auth') } catch (error) { console.log(`AN ERROR OCCURED: ${error}`) } }

[@catalinionescu5658]

Hi Dave, i just wanted to say THANK YOU!

[@AragornOfKebroyd]

such an amazing tutorial series, thank you so much

[@shoujojosei6705]

straight to the point! love it!!!

[@rodolforaquion166]

Thank you for the free content, Dave Gray. Was hoping you can do a version of this with ES6 Node just for modernizing it.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@mahdisalmanizadegan5595]

thanks a million Dave, you are the best instructor I've ever seen.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You are very welcome! 🙏💯

[@michalnowak2181]

really great tutorial - thank you Dave - adding TS would make this tutorial ideal - currently i am struggling with that :)

[@swapneshjoseph8653]

Dave - I am sincerely impressed and grateful for your lecture series. The impact of these tutorials surpasses mere education. Using your guidance, I have created free web apps for inspiring non-profits. Thank you for empowering me to contribute to their incredible work.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

That's awesome! I love feedback like this! Great job my friend! 💯🚀

[@wasalicarsal3968]

I'm halfway through watching this video, and I must say it's the best one I've seen so far. I've watched hundreds of videos, and many of them had numerous issues - apps crashing, not functioning properly, working fine in the video but failing when you try to follow along. However, this one gets a solid two thumbs up from me for the developer, Dave

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you! And you will want to note that the mongoose-sequence package used does not work with the latest Mongoose version. Use the version listed in my package.json or use a different dependency than mongoose-sequence that provides the same functionality. This will be important when you add new notes.

[@wasalicarsal3968]

Thanks, noted, I will let you know when I finish the video.@@DaveGrayTeachesCode

[@elinordeniz]

Great tut! Recommended ya all.

[@higherpurpose1212]

Thank you Dave, you are awesome, you deserve more likes and subscribers!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the kind words, Azor!

[@sidkapoor9085]

amazing stuff Dave. highly appreciated.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@dmitrysvetlov6001]

See you from Belarus, thanks a lot. One of the best channels. God bless you.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you! And hello 👋 to Belarus!

[@Anne-kz4fi]

Absolute goldmine! Thank you!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@streamcalter442]

You Surely Deserve million Subscribers. Hearty Thanks for your Great Efforts Dave.🔥🔥🔥

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you so much 😀

[@user-te2pe5qm8o]

I am so goddamn happy! Thank you a lot. I didn't finish this tutorial because it's too advanced for me, I guess I need to practice more fundamental stuff right now, but I use some knowledge from here to make a so so simple full-stack project. full CRUD features of a notes app. thank you again, I'll be back someday.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@pablovaldes2397]

oh wow, gonna watch all this when I get the time, you always explain things so well! Thanks as always!!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Awesome, thank you!

[@mohdsuhailmasroor6398]

Hello Dave, I want to thank you for sharing the knowledge, you are by far the best MERN stack guide I have seen on the internet, I appreciate the time and effort you have put in, and it looked like a piece of cake but I know how much effort it requires. I look forward to learning more from you In the future. I want to request a tutorial playlist on NextJS shortly.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you and there will be a Next.js series shortly 😀

[@jesseemana9598]

@@DaveGrayTeachesCode can't wait for that

[@vladimirjovanovic3540]

You are excellent teacher!!!!

[@m7do90]

Thanks for all your efforts, you are the best person to explain

[@dlmiroslavlb739]

Hello Dave, thank you very much, for providing these courses to the public for free.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Happy to hear that!

[@MdAshik-fg4es]

Best Lecture.......Thank you sir😊😊❤❤

[@NishaJakhar26]

Completed the whole video. Really Happy. Lots of information in there.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bungongkingsley6969]

thank you very much for your amazing lessons

[@ibrahimasarr1180]

Merci Dave Vous avez été génial, pédagogue et professionnel. Thanks a lot

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Merci beaucoup!

[@leroyombiji5699]

Hello Dave. This is a very good tutorial. Came at a time when I'm looking to upskill and look into more advanced React and NodeJs concepts. Could you please have one where you cover typescript and testing? Both unit and E2E. Thank you

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you and thank you for the request!

[@eddie3.14]

34:00 logger 45:00 cors 1:00:00 mongodb 2:45:00 API connection

[@denysgl3732]

Hi Dave! This is a great and much useful course. I’ve learned a lot from it. Thank you so much! Completely love your explanations. One thing the course is definitely missing is User Forgot and Restore Password action. Is there any chance to add this process, please?

[@Alex-bc3xe]

Your videos are clean, nice explained and simple to follow along god bless you.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the kind words! 🙏

[@okiroroobrutheanagho8779]

Great work sir. I learnt a lot from the reactjs tutorials. Thanks

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You are welcome!

[@Muhammed-nani964]

best video I found to go back to mern stack

[@ahlemmeziane3181]

Great course thank you so much🤩

[@tarunkumar-gl2xf]

Thanks Dave for such a well curated course😇

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Very welcome!

[@kimayapanash8998]

You have a very calming and soothing voice Its like you're telling us "Its okay.....this code cant hurt you now"

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Ha! I like that! Thank you 🙏

[@sohailahakeem231]

Thanks a lot for this great work

[@user-qo5hp4zz9e]

Dev always churns out D(diligent) ev(ever garde) contents. If I don’t have time off hand now, I come back later.❤️

[@nicholasamanfu6342]

Superb, well presented!! Dave is a rare gem. He has excellent teaching skills and the way he anticipates common pitfalls of online tutoring demonstrates the unique skill set of a true maestro. P.S. The autoincrement feature in the notes model does not work in the latest versions of mongoose.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you - and yes, some discussions on my Discord about the autoincrement feature. Other packages are available for this or you can roll back to the version of Mongoose that I used here (listed in my package.json).

[@Jay543100]

Thank you for pointing this out!! I'm testing my notes endpoints on Postman and the request for creating a new note kept hanging and not going anywhere and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Spent all morning trying to fix this :s. Rolled back the mongoose version and it works great now!

[@mattmjlg5053]

Let’s support this man! The fact that you released something so in depth… I haven’t even watched more than 5 minutes but I found a answer to a solution I’d been looking for! Do you recommend a newbie full stack developer to just go for it and build a app this stacked to gain the most experience? Or should I watch tutorials / read a ton before attempting this on my own. I ask because I’ve got the ladder approach and haven’t moved much but when I jump in I learn the lost

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the support! I recommend all of the pre-requisites I list at the beginning of the video (also in the description) first - before attempting this project.

[@NguyenNguyen-jl7hr]

I live in VN!! the best MERN tutorials on the web

[@YTthings666]

Amazing!!!! thanksa lot !!! Big Dave!!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@redemtion340]

Thank you very much for this great course. If you would create a mern project with typescript it would be great

[@ogibinedi]

Hello sir your course really really useful for me, today I am learning on it, and now I am at chapter 4... you're the best teacher I found in KZbin channel, hope God always blessed you all of time for your kindness...

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Glad I could help and thank you for the kind words! 🙏

[@mahendranath2504]

I feel the same

[@omgmaw]

Great course Dave!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you!

[@HealthHabitsHQ.]

Great tutorial I have learned so MUCH!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Glad to hear that!

[@ihateorangecat]

as always Thank you for these amazing tutorials! 💚💙 and i do hope for other kinds of apps like ecommerce and chat apps too. have a grate day🙏😊.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome! More new content always on the way! 💯

[@shivamroy6399]

Thanks a lot, you are doing a great job. god bless you ❤

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're very welcome!

[@user-te2pe5qm8o]

My Frontend knowledge is almost everything from you, such as css、react, and some js， but honestly, the backend is harder than the frontend. I just want to make a tiny simple database for myself. I have already watched your Node&Express tutorial, hope I could finish this one. Thank you a lot, teaching is much harder than learning, best bless to my extraordinary teacher.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the kind words! You've got this! 💯🚀

[@programmingforeveryone.5066]

Absolutely best MERN stack course ever.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thanks!

[@KristijanStosic]

Great tutorial! Best practices all together. I would like to see something similar but with relational database like SQL 😊

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Great suggestion!

[@KristijanStosic]

@@DaveGrayTeachesCode Password regex not working while creating new user. I can enter only letters and it will create new user, I can leave out the characters you provided (!@#$%). What causes the problem?

[@sdeabhi]

Amazing man!❤️ Amazing tutorial!❤️ Salute your Efforts 👍

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you! 💯🚀

[@sdeabhi]

@@DaveGrayTeachesCode welcome ❤️

[@muhammadalikhanniazi5930]

I like your content very much.Kindly make a video like that on a SAAS software in MERN Stack.

[@Geogoslee]

Hi Dave, it is great to see you replying comments promptly here. You are the best!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Far too many to keep up with but I try 😀

[@johnmaguire2185]

I’m not a coder. Amazing content well worth the cost of cup of coffee just to see behind the scenes of the type of software used everyday. I hope you are overflowing in beverages 😊

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Much appreciated!

[@arnoldasiimwe1819]

Wow this is amazing, thanks !!!

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@user-fd2ff3bc1x]

You're the Best. Thank you.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

🙏🙏

[@nigelhalsall6352]

Hi been going through your courses and very impressive. Been working the the MERN course which was great. And have built a similar project for booking and would like to filter the bookings to just one date and this is where I’ve been struggling. I can hard code the query at the back end but just can’t get it through from the front end at the slice

[@sunilhansda6289]

Thank you so much. I needed this. 1 subscriber added👍

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Glad it helped!

[@mohammadmahdialvansaz8001]

You're great. Thank you so much.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Glad it helped!

[@fasee8716]

I paused the video after 3 hours just to say thank you for this. You are an amazing teacher

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're very welcome!

[@pforpazu]

Hi Dave, Can you make a microservice series? I learnt your redux toolkit series. That's fantistic. I hope I can learn more complex structure programming from you. Your code is clean

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you for the request and for the kind words! 💯

[@AS-mc2db]

Sir you doing great work and providing awesome content in free... huge respect from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@wagdc218]

Thank you very much for best example.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@buraksag6073]

Thank you sir. I am sure that you did great work here 🔥

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome! 💯

[@davidmichaelhastings]

Dave I am going through this currently one video at a time and am on video 10 and I am really enjoying the experience and learning a lot. You do a really great job and I have learned so much already from you. You ever do tutoring?

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you, David. I have had requests this year for tutoriing / mentorship. I am not currently, but I am considering doing so on a limited basis next year.

[@davidmichaelhastings]

@@DaveGrayTeachesCode very cool. Wishing you great success man. You are a true inspiration giving back the way you do.

[@etekumoses3320]

So far the best tutor i have seen

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Thank you!

[@mahedihassanshawon4821]

The fact that u used user stories at the beginning it should be appreciated! No one does that...Thanks a lot

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

Right on! 💯

[@roysheppard-dev]

Really enjoying this course. I'm making it in typescript so the redux part took me a while to work out but got there. One question from the Redux RTK chapter. Not sure if I missed something but how did you get ticket.username to return username. I didn't see us add username to the ticket data at any point just the userId. I got around it by using the userId and useSelector to just grab the user and display the username that way but looks like there was a more efficient way I missed.

[@tigabumunaye9778]

I practice your React tutorial it's best thanks for your efforts.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You are most welcome

[@ifrankenstine8748]

thank you, sir .. people like you are the reasons why youtube is called the best learning platform nowadays.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!

[@lyndelldobluis4073]

hello dave Im already have a confidence to be a full stack developer after I watch this tutorials, I will integrate this in React native mobile application, I hope you have a tutorial for react native also

[@ahmadnazriabdullah8656]

Hey Dave. Awesome content. But i have a question at 4:30:33. Why are we not storing the refreshToken at the user model and why are we not comparing the refreshToken at the refresh endpoint?

[@pranaydas7382]

Thanks I learned a lot.

[@DaveGrayTeachesCode]

You're welcome!