Full Stack AI Developer Roadmap for Beginners
Want to build your own AI-powered applications? Ready to start your career as a full stack AI developer?
🎉 You've come to the right place!
This roadmap guides you from the fundamentals all the way to building AI applications. With 12 hands-on projects, from simple calculators to AI agents, we cover everything you need to master full-stack AI development.
Lessons marked with are pro lessons, and requires the Roadmap Pro plan to access.
Introduction
Your journey as a full-stack AI developer starts here!
- Course Introduction
HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are the two most fundamental building blocks of modern web applications. They decide the content and appearance of your webpages.
- Preparations
- HTML Elements
- Text Elements
- Layout Elements
- Cascading Style Sheet
- Basic Selectors
JavaScript Fundamentals
JavaScript was created to power interactivity on the web. Nowadays, it has grown into the foundation of many full stack web applications.
- Introduction
- Basic Syntax
- Variables
- Data Types
- Numbers & BigInt
- Strings
JavaScript in the Frontend
This chapter covers the frontend-specific JavaScript topics and discusses how to manipulate the DOM tree using JavaScript.
- The DOM Tree
- Selecting Elements in the DOM
- DOM Navigation
- Changing Elements
- Adding Elements
- Removing Elements
JavaScript in the Backend
In this chapter, we'll explore how to build server-side logic and APIs using Node.js, which allows JavaScript to run in the backend.
- Setting Up a Dev Environment
- Network & HTTP
- A Basic Web App
- Express.js
- Routing
- MVC Architecture
React.js
React.js is a powerful frontend library used in modern web applications. In this chapter, you'll learn how to build dynamic interfaces using React.js, and how to interact with external data and APIs.
- Introducing React.js
- Setting Up React Project
- React Project Structure
- JSX
- Conditional Rendering
- List Rendering
Full-Stack with Next.js
Next.js is a framework for building production-grade full stack applications. This chapter shows you how to create server and client rendered pages, APIs, and advanced features such as user auth and payment processing.
- Next.js Basics
- Routing
- Pages & Layout
- Server vs. Client Components
- API Routes
- Server Actions
AI for Full-Stack Developers
Master the core concepts in AI development and build your first AI app. Discuss tokens, temperature, response streaming, prompt engineering, function calling, agents, RAG, and more.
- What Are LLMs?
- Setting Up OpenAI Account
- Tokens
- Context Window
- Compare LLM Models
- OpenAI Model Playground