Techie Full-Stack Developer Roadmap

A Complete Journey — Web, Backend, and Game Dev with Python, JavaScript,
Flask, Node.js, React, and Godot

Whether you’re starting from scratch or aiming to become a full-stack creator, this roadmap covers
everything. At Techie, we guide you live, project by project, across the full software development journey.

Level Focus Timeline

🧱 Phase 0–2 Python + Web Basics + Backend Intro 2–3 months

🌐 Phase 3–5 API, Auth, Database, Real-World Projects 2–3 months

⚛️ Phase 6–7 Frontend (React) + Game Dev + Integration 3–4 months

🚀 Phase 8–9 Fullstack Projects + Deployment + Capstone 1–2 months

🧠 Bonus TypeScript, Docker Ongoing

UNIFIED APPROACH
We Learn in connected verticals, like this:

Month 1–2: Python Track (Backend Foundations)

●​ Core concepts (variables → functions → OOP)

●​ Flask Basics
●​ Pygame mini-games (weekends!)
●​ CLI Projects & simple APIs

👉 Outcome: strong grasp of programming, can build CLI tools & small Flask apps
Month 3–4: Frontend Track (HTML/CSS/JS)

●​ Structure, styling, and interactivity

●​ DOM projects & simple UI logic
●​ Focus on projects that talk to Flask APIs (full-circle!)

👉 Outcome: ability to build & style real frontend projects

Month 5–6: React + Flask Fullstack Track
 ●​ React state, routing, forms
●​ Combine with existing Flask backend
●​ Capstone project planning + build time

Month 7+: Game Dev + Specialization

●​ Pygame or Godot sprint (optional)

●​ TypeScript & Docker
●​ Portfolio polish + interviews + advanced reviews

🧩 Phase 0: Setup & Foundations

●​ Install Python, Node.js, and VS Code
●​ Set up Git + GitHub
●​ Understand CLI, file structures, and terminal basics
●​ Create your first script with print() and console.log()

🧪 Mini Projects:
●​ "Hello World" App in both Python & JS
●​ Your Developer Passport Generator

🎨 Phase 1: Frontend Web Development

(HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
📘 Topics
●​ HTML5: Structure, Forms, Semantics
●​ CSS: Box model, Flexbox, Grid, Responsive Design
●​ JavaScript: Variables, Loops, Functions, Events
●​ DOM Manipulation, Event Handling, API Fetching

🧪 Projects:
●​ Techie Landing Page
●​ Mad Lib Generator
●​ Weather Fetch App
●​ Quiz App
●​ Responsive Portfolio Website

⚙️ Phase 2: Backend Development (Python & JavaScript)

Python (Flask) & JavaScript (Node.js + Express)

📘 Topics
 ●​ Routing & HTTP methods
●​ RESTful APIs
●​ Template engines: Jinja2, EJS
●​ Middleware & Modular Code
●​ Error Handling

🧪 Projects:
●​ Notes API (Flask + Express)
●​ URL Shortener
●​ Portfolio Contact API
●​ Secret Message Encryptor

🔐 Phase 3: Authentication & User Systems

📘 Topics
●​ JWT & Sessions
●​ Password Hashing
●​ OAuth (Google, Discord)
●​ Role-Based Access Control

🧪 Projects:
●​ Blog Platform with Auth
●​ Password-Protected File Sharing
●​ User Management Panel

🧰 Phase 4: Databases
SQL (PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (MongoDB)

📘 Topics
●​ Schema Design
●​ Queries, Joins, Relationships
●​ CRUD in Flask and Express

🧪 Projects:
●​ Personal Expense Tracker
●​ Feedback Collection App
●​ Inventory Management

🛰️ Phase 5: Real-World APIs & Integration

📘 Topics
●​ Consuming REST APIs
●​ JSON handling
●​ File uploads
●​ Sending emails

🧪 Projects:
●​ Music Recommender
●​ Chuck Norris Joke Generator
●​ Recipe Search App

🕹️ Phase 6: Game Development (Optional)

Python + Pygame & Godot Engine (GDScript)

📘 Topics
●​ Game loops & states
●​ Sprites & animations
●​ Collision detection
●​ Input handling

🧪 Projects:
●​ Rock Paper Scissors (CLI & GUI)
●​ Coin Flip Game
●​ Word Guessing Game
●​ Platformer in Godot
●​ Simple RPG with Pygame

⚛️ Phase 7: React & Frontend Frameworks

📘 Topics
●​ JSX, Props, State, Events
●​ useEffect, Context API
●​ Routing & Components
●​ Form Handling

🧪 Projects:
●​ React Blog
●​ Flashcard Quiz
●​ E-commerce Frontend
🌐 Phase 8: Fullstack Projects
Combine Flask/Node + React

📘 Projects:
●​ Blog CMS
●​ Fullstack Todo App
●​ Tech Tool Dashboard
●​ Markdown Editor
●​ Real-Time Chat App

🚀 Phase 9: Deployment & Production

📘 Topics
●​ Hosting (Render, Vercel)
●​ Environment Variables
●​ Domain + SSL
●​ Deployment scripts & GitHub Actions

🧪 Tasks:
●​ Deploy Blog
●​ Configure APIs
●​ Use custom domain

TypeScript
📘 Topics
●​ Types, Interfaces, Generics
●​ Type-safe APIs
●​ TS + React/Express Integration

🧪 Projects:
●​ Typed REST API
●​ React Portfolio with TS

📚 Complementary Topics
●​ Git, GitHub & Version Control
●​ Testing (Unit, Integration, Postman)
●​ Security: XSS, SQL Injection, CORS
 ●​ Working with JSON, Regex, and Browser Storage
●​ VS Code Power Tools + Extensions

🎓 Capstone Pathways (Pick 1+ to specialize)

🕸️ Fullstack Web Developer
🧠 Backend Engineer
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🧩 Game Developer (Pygame / Godot)

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⚛️ Frontend Engineer (React)

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☁️ API Specialist / DevOps

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Each pathway includes a final project, review sessions, and personalized feedback.

Roadmap in detail.

FRONTEND
Structured for Live & Project-Based Learning

This roadmap is taught live, with code-along sessions, real-time collaboration, and projects at every stage

Phase 1: Foundations (HTML + CSS)

📌 Concepts Covered
●​ Introduction to HTML: tags, structure, semantic elements
●​ Forms & Inputs
●​ Emmet for speed
●​ CSS Basics: selectors, specificity, box model, units
●​ CSS Position, Display, and Layouts (Flexbox & Grid)
●​ Media queries, custom properties, pseudo-classes
●​ Animations & Transitions
●​ Accessibility best practices

🧪 Practice Projects
●​ Transparent Login Form
●​ Animated Cards
●​ Simple Profile Page
●​ CSS Tooltips
●​ Colorful Emoji Art
●​ CSS Image Hover Gallery
🌐 Phase 2: JavaScript Essentials
📌 Concepts Covered
●​ var, let, const
●​ Data types: strings, arrays, objects
●​ Functions & Arrow Functions
●​ Hoisting, scope, closures
●​ DOM Manipulation
●​ Event Handling
●​ Conditional Statements & Loops
●​ Promises, Async/Await, Fetch API
●​ Error Handling

🧪 Practice Projects
●​ Form Validation App
●​ Theme Toggle (Dark/Light Mode)
●​ Rock Paper Scissors Game
●​ Coin Flip Simulator
●​ Text to Speech App
●​ Modal + Expandable Sections

🎮 Phase 3: Game Development with JavaScript

📌 Concepts Covered
●​ Keyboard Input & Event Listeners
●​ Game Loops & State
●​ Random Logic & Conditions
●​ Basic collision logic (e.g. Pong, Snake)

🧪 Mini Games
●​ Guess The Number
●​ Countdown Timer
●​ Pong Clone
●​ Wordle Clone
●​ Memory Match Game
●​ Adventure Text Game

💻 Phase 4: DOM Projects & Advanced JS

📌 Concepts Covered
 ●​ Local Storage & Session Storage
●​ Modular JS & ES6 Imports
●​ Array Methods (map, filter, reduce, etc.)
●​ Recursion (basics)
●​ JSON + APIs

🧪 Projects
●​ Password Generator
●​ Recipe Generator
●​ Task Manager
●​ Currency Converter
●​ Quiz App
●​ Toast Notification System

Phase 5: Web Development with Flask

📌 Concepts Covered
●​ What is Flask & how the web works
●​ Routes & Templates (Jinja2)
●​ Handling forms and user input
●​ Creating simple databases (SQLite)
●​ Working with APIs (Requests, JSON)
●​ Authentication basics (sessions)

🧪 Web Projects
●​ Techie Blog CMS (Create/Edit/Delete posts)
●​ Contact Form App
●​ Portfolio Website with Flask
●​ Weather Dashboard (API Integration)
●​ E-commerce Inventory Manager

⚛️ Phase 6: React & Frontend Frameworks

📌 Concepts Covered
●​ What is React? Why React?
●​ Components, Props & State
●​ Conditional Rendering
●​ Lists and Keys
●​ Event Handling
●​ useEffect & useState
●​ Forms & Controlled Inputs
●​ Lifting State Up
 ●​ Context API & useContext

🧪 Projects
●​ Image Slider
●​ Currency Converter
●​ Todo List with Persistence
●​ Multi-step Form
●​ Quiz App
●​ Weather App

🌍 Phase 7: Advanced React & Next.js

📌 Concepts Covered
●​ File-based routing (Next.js)
●​ Layouts & Dynamic Routes
●​ SSR, CSR, SSG, ISR
●​ API Routes in Next.js
●​ useMemo & useCallback
●​ Custom Hooks
●​ Deployment with Vercel

🧪 Projects
●​ Blog CMS with Markdown
●​ Real-time Chat App
●​ Techie Tools Dashboard
●​ Mini Portfolio Generator

📘 Phase 8: TypeScript for Web Developers

📌 Concepts Covered
●​ TSConfig Basics
●​ Types, Interfaces, Enums
●​ Functions with Type Annotations
●​ Generics
●​ Utility Types (Partial, Pick, Record)
●​ Working with APIs in TS
●​ TS + React

🧪 Projects
●​ Typed Todo List
●​ Weather Dashboard (TS + API)
 ●​ Calculator with Type Inference
●​ Shopping Cart in TS + React

💼 Phase 9: Final Projects & Portfolio

🎓 Project Showcase
●​ Choose a full project to build, polish, and deploy
●​ Work through design, structure, code, and presentation

Example Ideas:

●​ Real-Time Chat App (Flask + JS)

●​ Full Blog CMS with user auth
●​ Weather or News API Dashboard
●​ Custom Portfolio Website

✅ Submission
●​ GitHub Repo
●​ Live Demo Link
●​ Presentation in Final Week Showcase

📚 Extras (Recommended Along the Way)

●​ Version Control (Git + GitHub)
●​ Deploying with Render or Vercel
●​ Basics of SEO & Meta Tags
●​ Security Basics (Input validation, XSS Awareness)

🔧 BACKEND
Python & JavaScript

Backend development powers everything you don't see on the screen. At Techie, we walk you
step-by-step into backend engineering using Python (Flask) and JavaScript (Node.js/Express).

🔹 Phase 1: Core Language Skills

JavaScript & Python Fundamentals

📘 Topics
●​ Variables & Constants (let, const, var / Python variables)
 ●​ Functions & Arrow Functions
●​ Control Flow (if, loops, etc.)
●​ Objects, Arrays, Dictionaries
●​ Closures & Scope (JS)
●​ Error handling (try/except, try/catch)

🧪 Mini Projects
●​ Basic Calculator (JS & Python)
●​ Tip Calculator
●​ Simple Text Formatter
●​ Reverse Name App

🔹 Phase 2: Server-Side Programming

Node.js + Express & Flask

📘 Topics (JS)
●​ Express Routing
●​ Middleware
●​ REST APIs & CRUD
●​ File System (fs module)
●​ Templating (EJS/Handlebars)

📘 Topics (Python)
●​ Flask Routing
●​ Template Rendering (Jinja2)
●​ Form Handling
●​ Blueprints & Modular Code

🧪 Projects
●​ RESTful Notes API (JS + Flask)
●​ Markdown Blog Server
●​ Recipe Manager API
●​ Portfolio Contact API

🔹 Phase 3: Authentication & User Systems

📘 Topics
●​ Sessions vs JWT
●​ JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
 ●​ Login/Logout Systems
●​ Password Hashing (bcrypt)
●​ Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

🧪 Projects
●​ Authenticated Blog App
●​ Password Protected File Uploader
●​ Role-Based Task Manager

🔹 Phase 4: Databases (SQL + NoSQL)

PostgreSQL & MongoDB

📘 Topics
●​ Relational vs Non-relational DBs
●​ Creating Schemas & Relationships
●​ SQL Joins & Queries
●​ MongoDB Basics
●​ Connecting DBs to Flask/Express

🧪 Projects
●​ Expense Tracker
●​ Comment System with Auth
●​ Inventory Dashboard

🔹 Phase 5: API Integration & Real World Use

📘 Topics
●​ Calling External APIs (requests/fetch)
●​ Building RESTful Services
●​ Handling JSON & Serialization
●​ Pagination, Filtering, Searching

🧪 Projects
●​ Weather API Dashboard
●​ Music Recommender API
●​ Chuck Norris Jokes API App
●​ Email Newsletter Backend

🔹 Phase 6: Realtime & Advanced Features

📘 Topics
●​ WebSockets with Flask-SocketIO or Socket.io
●​ Realtime Events & Broadcast
●​ File Uploads
●​ Stripe/PayPal Integration

🧪 Projects
●​ Real-Time Chat App
●​ File Sharing System
●​ Simple E-commerce Backend
●​ Countdown Timer API

🔹 Phase 7: Deployment & Hosting

📘 Topics
●​ Environment Variables
●​ Gunicorn & Procfile (Flask)
●​ PM2 + Node Deployment
●​ Hosting on Render/Vercel/Heroku
●​ Database setup in production

🧪 Deployment Tasks
●​ Deploy Blog API
●​ Secure API Keys in Flask
●​ Setup MongoDB Atlas + Connect

🔹 Phase 8: TypeScript
📘 Topics
●​ TSConfig & Basic Typing
●​ Type Guards, Interfaces
●​ Generics
●​ TS + Express Setup
●​ Building APIs with Type Safety

🧪 Projects
●​ Typed Notes API
●​ Secure Auth API with TS
●​ Blogging System with TS
🔹 Final Phase: Fullstack Real-World Projects
Combine Backend + Frontend (Flask or Express + JS/React)

📘 Ideas
●​ Blog CMS with Auth
●​ Techie Tools Dashboard
●​ Project Tracker
●​ Markdown-Based Wiki
●​ Pomodoro Web App with Timer API

📚 Complementary Topics
●​ Git & GitHub (Branching, PRs)
●​ Security (XSS, SQL Injection, Input Validation)
●​ JSON, JWT & Basic Testing
●​ CORS, Rate Limiting, Caching (Redis)
●​ Testing with Postman, Unit Testing

✨ Reminder:
Techie is live and project-based, so don’t stress about watching videos or memorizing syntax. Just show
up, code along, build stuff — and grow.

Real code. Real projects. Real growth.

At Techie, we don’t rush. You learn, build, and grow — one project at a time, guided live by real devs.

🔁 Learn → Build → Share → Get Feedback → Level Up

This is your roadmap to becoming a real-world developer.

Let’s get building.