I think a good next step after that course is to practice a front-end library like React or Vue. Another good step is to create a slightly different app than the simple social network app in the full-stack course. It can be similar, but make sure it has at least one different feature that you'll have to invent the application logic for. I think motivation is something that everyone always struggles with. Personally, coffee and music help, and also doing lots of my own little experiments (instead of huge entire applications) just to make sure I understand one isolated piece of technology before moving onto something else. Also a big motivation helper is to step back and get some perspective; what I mean is, I think as soon as we learn something new we make the mistake of thinking it's not special or useful or difficult any longer. Sometimes taking a moment to reflect on how much you've learned in the last year or two; contrasting what you knew back then with what you know now, can be a super positive exercise and motivate you to keep going.

@@LearnWebCode Thank you 😊🌻

Deno is great, but I think most articles and videos covering it last year were opportunistic clickbait. As amazing as Deno is it's hard to even begin to describe how popular and established Node is. Even if Deno's future is incredibly bright I don't think it will "replace" Node anytime soon at all.

Hi 🙂, I created the delay function that returns a promise because JavaScript's built-in "setTimeout" doesn't return a promise, and I wanted to be able to use the await syntax within our getCats function. When you create a new promise you need to capitalize the P, as in "new Promise()".

@@LearnWebCode thanx brad ❤️

Thank you! This is the Shure SM7B.

Brad is absolutely GREAT, but as a former university prof on a journey to full-stack webdev, I follow about 5 additional main instructors, covering a variety of topics. Each instructor tends to have an area they focus on, so find someone whose style you like who receives great udemy ratings, and then take their topic-specific bootcamp courses--whether thru udemy, freecodecamp "10 hrs of free whatever", treehouse, youtube channel crash courses, etc. Having overlap of content is good too--if you don't understand the way one person is teaching the concept, check out one of the others. Also, multiple sources helps give you a variety of projects to learn with and modify/expand on for your own portfolio--also sparks creative ideas for your own unique projects. My personal favorite instructors besides Brad Schiff are Jonas Schmedtmann, Maximillian Schwarzmueller, Andrei Neagoie, Andrew Mead, Stephen Grider. All are primarily back-end instructors, but for front-end, Jonas does a fantastic job. Other people recommend Angela Yu--she's good at both front and back-end. Colt Steele is also a favorite of many, though personally I find the pace he presents topics at a bit too slow for my preference--but he does provide HUGE amounts of practice for you. Do your research--there's lots of free and inexpensive resources out there. Oh yeah--another name that keeps popping up is Brad Traversy--backend. The other thing I would suggest is be sure you get exposure to a couple different MERN stack courses and also Data Structures & Algorithms(DSA). Ran into a couple great udemy courses on DSA--one by Scott Barrett which uses animated vids to help show DSA concepts, and another by Rob Merrill that provides pseudo-code hints to help you learn to use/write Javascript algorithms. Hope this helps! Good luck.