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TypeScript for backend services
Type a Node service end to end, from the request schema to the database row.
Rated 4.61,420 reviews13,800 learners
Taught by Kofi Mensah, verified instructorPlatform engineer · streaming · Meridian Lab- Length
- 9 weeks at 6 hours a weekAt your own pace, or in a live cohort
- Credential
- Earn a Specialization certificateIssued by Meridian Lab
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 12 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
$129once, yours to keep
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About this course
The types come from one definition, so a change to the API fails the build on your machine before it fails a customer. The course follows one service through nine weeks, from the tsconfig to the load balancer in front.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
6 modules
Ends on the project
19 lessons
7 to 18 min each
3 h 44 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
5 quizzes
29 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Kofi's team
- 1.2Unions, narrowing and exhaustive checks9 min
- 1.3Branded types for ids12 min
- Quiz · 5 questions8 min
- 2.2Parsing requests you do not trust7 min
- 2.3Errors a client can handle7 min
- Quiz · 7 questions10 min
- 3.1Resources and routes12 min
- 3.2Pagination and filtering13 min
- 3.3Versioning an API9 min
- 3.4An OpenAPI file from the same schema11 min
- Quiz · 5 questions7 min
- 4.1A typed query builder12 min
- 4.2Migrations checked in CI11 min
- 4.3Transactions and where they end16 min
- Quiz · 5 questions6 min
- 5.1Unit tests for the pure logic9 min
- 5.2Integration tests against Postgres in Docker8 min
- 5.3Contract tests with a client team14 min
- Quiz · 7 questions10 min
- 6.1Structured logging18 min
- 6.2Health checks and a graceful shutdown8 min
- 6.3Deploying behind a load balancer18 min
- Project · Build a typed booking API with validation, migrations and contract tests6 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 19 video lessons, 3 h 44 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 5 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Kofi's team
- A Specialization when you finish
- Transcripts in 12 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live reviews outside a cohort
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Kofi Mensah, verified instructor
Platform engineer · streaming
- Rating
- 4.5
- Learners
- 31.3K
- Courses
- 3
12 years in platform engineering
I run the platform team at a video streaming service.
Career highlight
We cut our cloud bill by a third in one year.
How Kofi teaches
I teach the layers under the frameworks.
Reviews, rated4.61,420 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 72% of reviews
- 4 stars, 19% of reviews
- 3 stars, 5% of reviews
- 2 stars, 2% of reviews
- 1 star, 1% of reviews
Yusuf K.Junior developer
4 weeks agoFinished
The tutor asked what I thought the error meant before saying anything. Annoying on day one; by week three I was doing it unasked.
Grace W.Career changer
4 months agoFinished
I finished with a repository I could show in interviews. Two interviewers asked about the project before they asked about anything else on my résumé, and one of them had read the tests. I had spent eight years in retail management, and this was the first thing I had ever built that a stranger could download, install and run on their own machine.
Diego F.Backend developer
2 weeks agoFinished
The exercises break things on purpose. Fixing the failing run in module three taught me more than any of the lectures I have sat through.
Pete L.Senior engineer
2 months agoFinished
Too basic for me. The last module is what I came for, and it is short.
Mei C.Software engineer
1 month agoFinished
Kofi reviews the project the way a senior colleague would: short comments, each pointing at one line of your code and asking why it is there.
Nadia B.DevOps engineer
2 months agoFinished
I use something from this course every week. The notes on failure paid for it.
6 of 1,420 reviews
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What people ask before they enroll
A person answers anything this list does not. Ask us.
That you already do this work day to day. The course spends no time on the basics, and its first module starts where most introductions to the subject leave off, at the part that is hard to learn alone.
Nothing expires. 9 weeks at 6 hours a week is the pace the course was planned at, and at 4 hours it takes 14 weeks. The panel above works out a finish date for whatever pace you give it.
A start date, a finish date and a live review of the week's work every Thursday, with the same 30 people from the first week to the last. The lessons and the tutor are the ones the self-paced track gets.
A certificate from the school that made the course, and the project the instructor's team reviewed. Each comes with a link that anyone, an employer included, can open and check in a few seconds.
Yes, within 30 days of enrolling, from your account page and with no form to fill in or reason to give. Lesson one is free with the tutor, so most people know the course suits them before they pay.
Waypoint Plus is $29 a month and opens this course along with every other. At $129 this one costs about 4 months of it, so buy it on its own if it is the only course you mean to take this year.
Watch lesson one tonight. Decide in the morning.
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