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Show HN: Fullstack React and Node Masterclass (With GraphQL and TypeScript)

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7 pointsjashmenn6 comments

This feels like a scam/spam to me.

If I open my Instagram right now, I will see thousands of those courses. All of them making mistakes about what a masterclass is, all of them talking about "modern" stacks and lacking a lot of content.

To put into perspective: 2 of the 3 courses that I've enrolled missed the "how to put in production mode" part.

But don't get me wrong, I like what you are doing. It is just that I miss the "real advanced" part. All of them seems to teach the same thing, in the same speed.

One of the co-instructors here. I 100% see where you're coming from. There's a lot of things that we cover in the course and spend a lot of effort in and there are other topics that are very important that we didn't include within the scope of the course (e.g. unit/integration testing).

To address the above, we've tried being as transparent as possible by highlighting the main focus points of the course in our landing page, showing the app that people will build publicly (https://tinyhouse.app), and providing a detailed syllabus page (https://newline.co/tinyhouse/syllabus) that shows every lesson we go through. We definitely want students and/or potential students to know exactly what they'll be going through before they even decide to dive in.

I’m curious, what other courses did you enroll in? What were they lacking that you wish they had included?

i am not sure about this course but the fullstack books (i think they changed the name to newline) are top notch. I learnt a bunch of technologies from those books and they served me well.

Hey HN, so I think that 2020 will be the year of the "GARMENT" stack:

GraphQL / Apollo / React / MongoDB* / Express / Node / TypeScript

(*or maybe Postgres)

Most of the mini-courses I'd watch would build "demo apps" that weren't even remotely production-ready. And I was pretty frustrated by the lack of non-trivial example projects. I wasted probably hundreds of hours trying to figure out on my own:

how to properly use TypeScript and React together, how to securely add permissions for my GraphQL resolvers, how to use typings for Apollo requests, ...and dozens of other little details

So that's why we built Tinyhouse - a full-featured, non-trivial, full-stack Node.js/GraphQL server and React app that covers all of the details (and the right way to implement them).

Edit: apologies it may be a fat finger issue.

Please don’t auto play the vid. Is there some trick you did for that because usually safari iOS stops that happening. Maybe like highjacking the first event that can play video?

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