Full Stack Web Developer with Ruby on Rails

Roadmap to become a full-stack web developer with Ruby on Rails

What is the Full-stack web developer?

Full-stack web developer is who works familiar with both front-end and back-end, also servers and database.

Why should you become a Full-stack web developer?

• You can build entire a web application, without having to rely on someone else.
• Many companies or clients demands full stack developers, so that they can build better products with less cost.
• Get high Salary.

How to become a Full-stack web developer?

• Have a plan: You need to lay out the roadmap of things you'd like to learn.
• Build stuff: Don’t just read, build simple apps by applying whatever you have learned.
• Find a community of support as StackOverflow.
• Summarize and document what you learn, it’s very useful to review in the future.
• Make a habit to read books, blogs and practice every day.

Roadmap

Front-end

• HTML
• CSS
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Boostrap
  • Foundation
• Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Framework: ReactJS, Angular or Vue.js, EmberJS
• UI/UX

Back-end

• Language: Ruby

  • Ruby Programming Tutorial
  • Best Resources to learn Ruby

• Framework: Ruby on Rails

  • Best Resources to learn Ruby on Rails

• Unit test: Rspec

  • Essential Resources to learn Rspec

Databases

• Relational Databases:

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL

• NoSQL Databases:

  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Memcached

Servers

• Hosts:

  • Amazon AWS
  • Digital Ocean
  • Heroku
  • Engine Yard

• App Servers and Web Servers

  • Nginx
  • Phusion Passenger
  • Puma
  • Unicorn

• Deployment, Measurement vs Monitoring

Architecture, Refactoring

• Rails Principles

  • Convention over Configuration (Coc)
  • Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
  • RESTful

• SOLID Principles

• Design Patterns

  • MVC
  • Form Object / Policy Object / Query Object ( Active Records - Model)
  • Decorator / Presenter / Facade (View)
  • Service Object (Controller)
  • Strategy / Composite patterns

• Fat model, skinny controller

• KISS - "Keep it simple, stupid"

• Composition over inheritance

• Database Query Optimization

Deeper

• Caching

• Security

• Performance turning

• CDN

• Search Engines

  • Elastic Search
  • Solr
  • Sphinx

Best Resources

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

• Code Complete 2: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

• Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

• High Performance Web Sites: Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites

• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

• Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual