Roadmap to becoming a Node.js developer in 2021:

Below you can find a chart demonstrating the paths that you can take and the libraries that you would want to learn to become a Node.js developer. I made this chart as a tip for everyone who asks me, "What should I learn next a Node.js developer?"

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The purpose of this roadmap is to give you an idea about the landscape. The road map will guide you if you are confused about what to learn next, rather than encouraging you to pick what is hip and trendy. You should grow some understanding of why one tool would be better suited for some cases than the other and remember hip and trendy does not always mean best suited for the job

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1. Prerequisites

   • JavaScript
   • NPM
   • Node.js
   • ECMAScript

2. General Development Skills

   • Learn GIT, create a few repositories on GitHub, share your code with other people
   • Know HTTP(S) protocol, request methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS)
   • Don't be afraid of using Google, Power Searching with Google
   • Read a few books about algorithms and data structures
   • Clean code (https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_conventions.asp)

3. Web Frameworks

   1. Express.js
   2. Adonis.js
   3. Meteor.js
   4. Nest.js
   5. Sails.js
   6. Koa.js
   7. Loopback.io
   8. egg.js
   9. midway

4. Databases

   1. Relational
      1. SQL Server
      2. PostgreSQL
      3. MariaDB
      4. MySQL
   2. Cloud Databases
      • CosmosDB
      • DynamoDB
   3. Search Engines
      • ElasticSearch
      • Solr
      • Sphinx
   4. NoSQL
      • MongoDB
      • Redis
      • Apache Cassandra
      • LiteDB
      • RavenDB
      • CouchDB

5. Caching

   1. Node-Cache
   2. Distributed Cache
      1. Redis
      2. Memcached
   3. Memory Cache

6. Logging

   1. Log Frameworks
      • Node-Loggly
      • Winston
      • Node-Bunyan
      • Morgan
   2. Log Management System
      • Sentry.io
      • Loggly.com

7. Template Engines

   1. Mustache.js
   2. Handlebars
   3. EJS
   4. Pug
   5. Nunjunks.js

8. Real-Time Communication

   1. Socket.IO

9. Typed Superset

   1. TypeScript
   2. Flow

10. API Clients

    1. REST
       • Node-Rest-Client
       • Axios
    2. GraphQL
    3. [Authentication]

11. Good to Know

    • Async.js
    • PM2
    • Commander.js
    • Passport
    • Nodemailer
    • Marked
    • ESLint

12. Testing

    1. Unit, Behavior, Integration Testing
       1. Jest
       2. Jasmine
       3. Chai
       4. Mocha
       5. Enzyme
       6. Sinon
    2. E2E Testing
       • Selenium
       • Puppeteer

13. Task Scheduling

    • Agenda
    • Cronicle
    • Node-Schedule

14. MicroServices

    1. Message-Broker
       • RabbitMQ
       • Apache Kafka
       • ActiveMQ
       • Azure Service Bus
    2. Message-Bus
       • Distribus
       • BusMQ

15. Design-Patterns

16. JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures

If you think the roadmap can be improved, please do open a PR with any updates and submit any issues. Also, I will continue to improve this, so you might want to star this repository to revisit.

Idea from : ASP.NET Core Developer Roadmap

The roadmap is built using Draw.io. Project file can be found at Node.js-developer-roadmap.xml file. To modify it, open draw.io, click Open Existing Diagram and choose xml file with project. It will open the roadmap for you. Update it, upload and update the images in readme and create a PR (export as png with 400% zoom and minify that with Compressor.io).

• Open a pull request with improvements
• Discuss ideas in issues
• Spread the word