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by blank_fan_pill 1513 days ago
It was setting up schemas in posgress and learning the basics of using a sql database; setting up a web api to auth users and connect to that database and serve json with Node, then building a JS frontend to login users and fetch and display that data with backbone. It was done in the format of building a couple applications in teams of 2-3.

My first job didn't use those specific languages or technologies but everything was close enough to what I had done in the bootcamp that I wasn't completely lost. I knew enough to be a good jr developer and learned 20x in my first 2 years on the job than in the bootcamp.

I've since built/done lots of services, data pipelines, database migrations, devops pager rotations, large/complex frontend applications. The bootcamp was really just a jumping off point. The real learning starts when you get to the job.

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Ya that actually sounds like a pretty decent course. I asked because the impression I've got from bootcampers over the last few years has basically been some React based thing and not much else outside that, except probably some basic node stuff