--- title: 11 Stages To Become A JavaScript Full-Stack Engineer description: A good start will be the tutorial of W3Schools that teaches all the basics and also some advanced information. Node.js is a powerful JavaScript-based platform... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/11-stages-to-become-a-javascript-full-stack-engineer-z9nreu4ay twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 11 Stages To Become A JavaScript Full-Stack Engineer | daily.dev og:description: A good start will be the tutorial of W3Schools that teaches all the basics and also some advanced information. Node.js is a powerful JavaScript-based platform... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/11-stages-to-become-a-javascript-full-stack-engineer-z9nreu4ay og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Z9NrEu4aY.png og:image:alt: 11 Stages To Become A JavaScript Full-Stack Engineer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 11 Stages To Become A JavaScript Full-Stack Engineer **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · [@paulknulst](https://daily.dev/paulknulst) · 6 min read · 165 upvotes · 57 comments ## Summary A good start will be the tutorial of W3Schools that teaches all the basics and also some advanced information. Node.js is a powerful JavaScript-based platform that is built on Google Chrome’s JavaScript V8 Engine and provides an event-driven, non-blocking (asynchronous) I/O and cross-platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dreamecho100** · 5 upvotes > Good article, even though I would prefer learning SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc..) instead of mongoDB, especially since you can use Prisma to simplify the migration process using an ORM like Prisma **@moistened** · 3 upvotes > Oh I thought this was going to start with something like > 1. False Confidence > 2. Denial > 3. Coming to terms with the fact you don't know anything. > 4. Learn said things > 5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 > > Jokes aside great article. **@mathew002** · 1 upvotes > Great **@humblemuzzu** · 1 upvotes > It will be very useful to me > Thanks ☺️ **@salahit5** · 1 upvotes > thank u so much ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#mongodb](https://daily.dev/tags/mongodb), [#mysql](https://daily.dev/tags/mysql), [#nosql](https://daily.dev/tags/nosql), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/11-stages-to-become-a-javascript-full-stack-engineer-z9nreu4ay) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"11 Stages To Become A JavaScript Full-Stack Engineer","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/11-stages-to-become-a-javascript-full-stack-engineer-z9nreu4ay","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/11-stages-to-become-a-javascript-full-stack-engineer-z9nreu4ay"},"datePublished":"2023-01-14T12:02:18.155Z","dateModified":"2024-08-30T02:26:16.617Z","description":"A good start will be the tutorial of W3Schools that teaches all the basics and also some advanced information. 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