Udemy – React Next.js Node API AWS – Build Scaling MERN Stack App 2020-6 – Full Version

Tech stack:

• We will use React and NextJS (React Framework) on the client side.
• We will build an API/server using Node Express MongoDB.
• We will use AWS services such as S3 for file storage, SES for emailing, and EC2 for cloud hosting IAM for identity and access management Route 53 for domain management as well as custom rules/policies.
• We will be using Mongo Atlas as a cloud-managed database service.

What are we going to build?

• Build a starter project inspired by a successful real-world application (discussed in more detail in the talks) where multiple users can log in and publish/manage the content they submit.
• When building a similar project, we will add some improvements to make it infinitely scalable and easier to maintain
• Aim for low operating cost and implement some features to make it much easier, fun and engaging for users to use.

Goal of the project ?

• Target millions of potential users to use and interact with our app
• Users can be anyone…who finds a course, video or articles online…likes it and wants to share it
• The links they share will also be available in their dashboard for updating/deleting
• A user can be someone who is a content creator like me…instructors, youtubers, blog and tutorial writers, book authors, etc.
• Users will register/login our app to post/share/like links/urls
• Users will do this to get free traffic… to get people’s attention… to share links for free

Project overview?

• Login/register system
• Need a MongoDB that scales infinitely. We will use Mongo Atlas for this requirement.
• Need a massive storage system that scales infinitely to store image files uploaded by users. We will use AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) for this requirement.
• You never have to worry about managing millions of files uploaded by users… let AWS take care of it! S3 pricing is the lowest on the market for storing an infinite amount of data that is readily available around the world in AWS data centers globally.
• Need a robust email service to send emails to hundreds of thousands of users. We will use AWS SES (Simple Email Service) for this requirement.
• You never have to worry about how to email millions of people and pay a premium price…let AWS take care of it! their SES rate is the lowest on the market.
• We will be using AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to host our backend NodeJS API and React/Next JS interface, all in a single instance.
• Keep costs as low as possible by using AWS services for storage, messaging, and hosting.
• The main issues with scaling web applications are storage and database scaling. This part will be managed by AWS. So, as a developer, we don’t have to worry.
• Our goal is to allow just 1 or 2 developers to maintain the whole project and grow continuously in the future.