Advanced Backend Web Development – Free Udemy Courses

In this course, we examine several technologies. The first is Grunt. Grunt is a task runner which is a way for us to implement a build system to handle writing our code in different languages, preprocessing, minifying our code, and doing unit testing — all automated. We’ll also take a look at Coffeescript, which is a preprocessor for Javascript. It follows a lot of similar structures to Python and is very, very popular.

Finally, we’ll discuss Sockets. Sockets are a way for us to open a constant connection between the server and the client. Normally when you make a request, the request goes up and then comes down with the data. With a socket, that request goes up and stays open, allowing the server to send data whenever it wants and the client to send data whenever it wants.

So, we can make real-time applications using sockets and we’ll take a look at how to implement a very simple system using socket IO.

Course Includes:

• 16 videos with over 50 minutes of lectures and explanations.
• 6 external resource files.
• 1 exercise to help you master advanced backend web development concepts.

What You’ll Learn:

• Introduction to Grunt
• Setting up Grunt with CSS-min
• Uglify JS files
• Setting up custom tasks
• Watching files
• Basics of CoffeeScript
• If Statements
• Ternary
• Loops
• Comments, Strings, and Interpolation
• Introduction to Sockets
• Scaffolding the project
• Setting up Sockets
• Communicating between connections
• Additional Resources
• Exercises
• And More!