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Building a SaaS Product Is Hard

There’s a lot to build –
  • Secure authentication
  • Billing and payments
  • User interface design
  • Organisations, users and roles
  • APIs and communications
  • Tests & security
  • Plus lots more
In this course you will –
  • Learn how to build a SaaS product from scratch
  • Level up your skills with industry-standard knowledge
  • Eliminate the pain of learning how to build a SaaS product
  • Learn by step-by-step code video walkthroughs
  • Create an Instagram-style photo-sharing app with React & Node.js
This course will not –
  • Overwhelm you with theory like a computer science degree
  • Teach you useless skills that you cannot apply to your own product
  • Use shortcuts, hacks or poor quality, buggy code
  • Skip over critical topics like security and testing

How to Build a SaaS Course Curriculum

25 hours of video across 17 modules of in-depth content

Architecture Of a SaaS Application
  • Understanding client & server
  • What is an API?
  • Understanding Model-View-Controller
  • Single or multi-tenant SaaS?
  • Features of a SaaS app
Building Your Stack
  • Does tech stack matter?
  • Why use Javascript?
  • Which framework is best?
  • Setting up the project
  • Configuring the development environment
Data Modelling
  • Why start with data?
  • Relational or non-relational data?
  • Data modelling tools
  • Designing data models
  • Normalisation, Foreign Keys & Cascades
Controllers & Models
  • Scaffolding the models
  • CRUD anatomy
  • ORMs and query builders
  • Creating the models & controllers
  • Security considerations
Building a REST API
  • What is a REST API?
  • Building the API
  • Global error handling
  • Throttling for security
  • Testing with Postman
Authentication Part 1 (Server-Side)
  • Issuing JWT auth tokens
  • Sign up and sign in flows
  • Protecting API endpoints
  • User roles and permissions
  • Creating scoped API keys
Email Notifications
  • Setting up Mailgun
  • Building a mail module
  • Avoid HTML table hell with JSON emails
  • Allowing users to customise email settings
  • Sending email notifications to users
Authentication Part 2 (Client-Side)
  • Client authentication best practices
  • Client routing & private routes
  • Sign in and Sign up flows
  • Forgot password flow
  • Sign out flow
Bonus: UI Design School
  • Layout
  • Colour
  • Scale
  • Typography
  • Iconography
User Management
  • Understanding organisations and users
  • Building a user admin UI
  • Building a user invite flow
  • The user sign up flow
  • Multi-organisation logic
Build a SaaS Billing System With Stripe
  • Creating the billing UI
  • Upgrading, downgrading & cancelling
  • Updating the credit cards
  • Secure Customer Authentication (SCA)
  • Implementing free trials
Creating a Profile Page With Photo Uploads
  • Creating the public profile page
  • Creating the photo uploader
  • Storing photos in Amazon S3
  • Designing a photo grid
  • Photo detail page with comments
Building The Dashboard
  • Building a SaaS dashboard
  • Create the API key admin UI
  • Tracking photo views
  • Add photo metrics
  • Building a help view
Testing
  • Why you should test
  • Types of tests
  • Writing unit tests
  • Writing integration tests
  • UI & user testing
SaaS Security Practices
  • Keep packages up to date
  • Preventing XSS attacks
  • Content security policies
  • Understanding CORS
  • Database security
Deploying a SaaS Application
  • Choosing a hosting platform
  • Configuring the production environment
  • Database SSL certificates
  • Deploying to Heroku
  • Building a deployment pipeline
Next Steps
  • Advanced features to consider
  • Launching your app
  • Marketing your app
  • Building an audience
  • Feedback

What’s Included

25 Hours Of Video

In-depth video tutorials walk you through each concept and line of code.

17 Modules

We’ll cover everything from authentication to APIs, UI design and billing.

Experienced Instructor

With over 10+ years of commercial experience building SaaS products.

Downloadable Code

Get access to the Javascript code from each module, plus the complete codebase for the final SaaS product.

Practical Exercises

Each module focuses on building real SaaS features; you won’t be overwhelmed with theory.

Working Product

The outcome is to build a full, professional SaaS product. Try it for yourself

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Delivery time: 12 -24hrs after paid