Back-End Developer Step by Step Roadmap Guide 2023

Learn Basic Front-End Dev

You must understand the fundamentals of front-end development and how things work in the browser.

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

Once you understand the fundamentals of front-end development, you can move on to learning a programming language. There are numerous programming languages that you can learn to become a backend developer.

Choose a Programming language

• JavaScript
• Python
• PHP
• Ruby
• Rust
• Java
• Go Lang

Choose a Framework according to your programming language

JavaScript or Node.js

• Express.js
• Nest.js
• Fastify
• Sails
• Hapi
• Restify
• Koa

Python

• Django
• Flask

PHP

• Laravel
• Symfony

Ruby

• Rails
• Sinatra

Java

• Spring
• Google Web Toolkit

Rust

• Rocket.rs

GO

• Gin

Backend concepts to learn

• HTTP / HTTPS
• REST
• GraphQL
• Web Sockets
• CORS
• MVC Architecture
• CI / CD
• Serverless

Learn about databases

There are 2 Types of Databases:

1. SQL
2. NoSQL

SQL

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Lite

NoSQL

• MongoDB
• CouchDB
• DynamoDB

Learn Caching

• Redis
• Memcached

ORM / ODM

• Mongoose (MongoDB)
• Prisma (SQL)
• Sequelize (SQL)

Essential things to learn

• Authentication
• OAuth
• Hashing (bcrypt)
• Rate Limiting
• Reverse proxy
• Load balancer
• Documentation (Swagger)

Learn any HTML Templating Engine

• EJS
• PUG
• Handlebars
• doT
• Jade
• Eta

Other Important Topics

• Linux
• Git
• Terminal (CLI)
• Basic Networking
• Web Security
• Payment Gateways
• Testing

Learn to deploy and learn any cloud service

• Google Cloud
• AWS
• Digital Ocean
• Azure
• Heroku
• Linode
• Vercel

Optional things to learn

• Docker
• Performance
• Scalability
• Kubernetes

Tools to learn as a backend developer

• Yarn
• NPM
• Postman
• Insomnia
• GitHub

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