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Learn How To Build a SaaS Product From Scratch
25+ hours of content teaching you everything from authentication, design, payments, security and more.
Building a SaaS Product Is Hard
There’s a lot to build –
- Secure authentication
- Billing and payments
- User interface design
- Organisations, users and roles
- APIs and communications
- Tests & security
- Plus lots more
In this course you will –
- Learn how to build a SaaS product from scratch
- Level up your skills with industry-standard knowledge
- Eliminate the pain of learning how to build a SaaS product
- Learn by step-by-step code video walkthroughs
- Create an Instagram-style photo-sharing app with React & Node.js
This course will not –
- Overwhelm you with theory like a computer science degree
- Teach you useless skills that you cannot apply to your own product
- Use shortcuts, hacks or poor quality, buggy code
- Skip over critical topics like security and testing
Learn How To Build This SaaS Product
You’ll create a beautiful, Instagram-style SaaS product from scratch
- Secure authentication
- Subscription payments
- Organisations, users and roles
- File uploads and management with Amazon S3
- Email notificiations
- API keys
How to Build a SaaS Course Curriculum
25 hours of video across 17 modules of in-depth content
1. Architecture Of a SaaS Application
Understanding client & server
What is an API?
Understanding Model-View-Controller
Single or multi-tenant SaaS?
Features of a SaaS app
2. Building Your Stack
Does tech stack matter?
Why use Javascript?
Which framework is best?
Setting up the project
Configuring the development environment
3. Data Modelling
Why start with data?
Relational or non-relational data?
Data modelling tools
Designing data models
Normalisation, Foreign Keys & Cascades
4. Controllers & Models
Scaffolding the models
CRUD anatomy
ORMs and query builders
Creating the models & controllers
Security considerations
5. Building a REST API
What is a REST API?
Building the API
Global error handling
Throttling for security
Testing with Postman
6. Authentication Part 1 (Server-Side)
Issuing JWT auth tokens
Sign up and sign in flows
Protecting API endpoints
User roles and permissions
Creating scoped API keys
7. Email Notifications
Setting up Mailgun
Building a mail module
Avoid HTML table hell with JSON emails
Allowing users to customise email settings
Sending email notifications to users
8. Authentication Part 2 (Client-Side)
Client authentication best practices
Client routing & private routes
Sign in and Sign up flows
Forgot password flow
Sign out flow
9. Bonus: UI Design School
Layout
Colour
Scale
Typography
Iconography
10. User Management
Understanding organisations and users
Building a user admin UI
Building a user invite flow
The user sign up flow
Multi-organisation logic
11. Build a SaaS Billing System With Stripe
Creating the billing UI
Upgrading, downgrading & cancelling
Updating the credit cards
Secure Customer Authentication (SCA)
Implementing free trials
12. Creating a Profile Page With Photo Uploads
Creating the public profile page
Creating the photo uploader
Storing photos in Amazon S3
Designing a photo grid
Photo detail page with comments
13. Building The Dashboard
Building a SaaS dashboard
Create the API key admin UI
Tracking photo views
Add photo metrics
Building a help view
14. Testing
Why you should test
Types of tests
Writing unit tests
Writing integration tests
UI & user testing
15. SaaS Security Practices
Keep packages up to date
Preventing XSS attacks
Content security policies
Understanding CORS
Database security
16. Deploying a SaaS Application
Choosing a hosting platform
Configuring the production environment
Database SSL certificates
Deploying to Heroku
Building a deployment pipeline
17. Next Steps
Advanced features to consider
Launching your app
Marketing your app
Building an audience
Feedback
What’s Included
25 Hours Of Video
In-depth video tutorials walk you through each concept and line of code.
17 Modules
We’ll cover everything from authentication to APIs, UI design and billing.
Experienced Instructor
With over 10+ years of commercial experience building SaaS products.
Practical Exercises
Each module focuses on building real SaaS features; you won’t be overwhelmed with theory.
Working Product
The outcome is to build a full, professional SaaS product. Try it for yourself
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