12-Week Backend Development Course

A hands-on backend course built around 12 progressively complex projects. Each week introduces new concepts while reinforcing fundamentals.

Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	Angular 19 (standalone components)
Backend	ASP.NET MVC (.NET 10)
Database	SQLite (via Entity Framework Core)

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+)
• Angular CLI (npm install -g @angular/cli)
• .NET 10 SDK

Running a Project

Each week follows the same structure:

week-XX-project-name/
├── client/    # Angular frontend
├── server/    # ASP.NET MVC backend
└── db/        # SQLite database (auto-created on first run)

Start the backend:

cd week-01-task-tracker/server
dotnet run --urls="http://localhost:5000"

Start the frontend (in a separate terminal):

cd week-01-task-tracker/client
npm install
ng serve

Open http://localhost:4200 in your browser.

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Weekly Breakdown

Week 1 — Task Tracker

Concepts: CRUD operations, models, controllers, basic routing

• Create, read, update, delete tasks
• Status toggling (complete/incomplete)
• Simple list and detail views

Week 2 — Contact Book

Concepts: Form validation, search/filter, pagination

• Add/edit/delete contacts with validation
• Search by name, email, phone
• Paginated results from the API

Week 3 — Blog Engine

Concepts: Authentication, authorization, entity relationships

• User registration and login
• Admin vs reader roles
• Posts with comments (one-to-many relationships)

Week 4 — Expense Tracker

Concepts: Aggregations, date filtering, reporting endpoints

• Log expenses by category and date
• Monthly/weekly summaries
• Filtered reporting endpoints

Week 5 — Recipe Manager

Concepts: File uploads, tags/categories, many-to-many relationships

• Create recipes with image uploads
• Tag system with many-to-many relationships
• Filter by tags, ingredients, difficulty

Week 6 — Inventory System

Concepts: Stock tracking, transaction history, business logic

• Products with stock levels
• Stock in/out transactions with history
• Low-stock alerts and threshold logic

Week 7 — Booking / Scheduler

Concepts: Date/time logic, conflict detection, availability

• Create and manage bookable time slots
• Detect scheduling conflicts
• Availability checking endpoints

Week 8 — Employee Directory

Concepts: Hierarchical data, bulk operations, import/export

• Departments and employees (parent-child)
• Org chart data structure
• CSV import/export endpoints

Week 9 — Support Ticket System

Concepts: Status workflows, assignment logic, priority queues

• Ticket creation with priority levels
• Status workflow (open → in progress → resolved → closed)
• Auto-assignment and escalation logic

Week 10 — REST API Gateway (DIY Frontend)

Concepts: API keys, rate limiting, middleware

• API key generation and validation
• Rate limiting middleware
• Request logging and analytics

Week 11 — Notification Service (DIY Frontend)

Concepts: Background jobs, webhooks, queues

• Event-driven notifications
• Email and webhook delivery
• Background job processing with queues

Week 12 — Dashboard Analytics (DIY Frontend)

Concepts: Data aggregation, caching, performance optimization

• Aggregate data from previous projects
• Response caching strategies
• Query optimization and performance tuning

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Frontend Notes

• Weeks 1–9: Full Angular frontends provided (components, services, routing, HTML, CSS)
• Weeks 10–12: HTML and CSS are complete, but Angular services are stubs with TODO comments — wire up the API connections yourself as a learning exercise

Look for // TODO: comments in the service files for weeks 10-12 to know exactly what to implement.

License

MIT