Full-Stack Web Application Development and Software Architecture Security

Course Description

Duration 12 days – 84 hrs

Overview

Full-Stack Web Application Development and Software Architecture Security is a hands-on, end-to-end program where participants build a modern web application from UI to API using React (JavaScript) and Spring Boot (Java). The bootcamp goes beyond coding by embedding software architecture best practices and web application security fundamentals—helping teams design scalable solutions, integrate cleanly across layers, and apply secure-by-design principles. By the end, participants will have a working full-stack project and a practical toolkit for building production-ready web applications.

1) Frontend Bootcamp: React + JavaScript (3 Days)

Course overview

A hands-on bootcamp that equips participants to build modern web user interfaces using JavaScript 2022 and React, covering component-based development, state management, API integration, routing, forms, and basic testing. Participants finish with a working front-end app connected to a backend API (mock or real).

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants can:

Write clean, modern JavaScript 2022
Build reusable React components and manage state effectively
Implement routing, forms, and validation
Integrate with REST APIs (fetch/axios), handle loading/errors
Apply basic front-end performance and code organization practices

Target delegates

Junior to mid-level developers
Web developers transitioning to React
Full-stack aspirants needing strong UI foundations
QA/automation engineers who need React familiarity (optional)

Prerequisites

Basic programming fundamentals (variables, loops, functions)
Familiarity with HTML/CSS basics
Laptop with Node.js installed (or company-provided dev environment)

Course outline (3 days)

Day 1 — Modern JavaScript + React fundamentals

JavaScript 2022 let/const, arrow functions, destructuring, modules
Tooling: npm, Vite/CRA, project structure
React basics: JSX, components, props, rendering lists, keys
Events and conditional rendering
Practice lab: build a UI with reusable components

Day 2 — State, effects, and API integration

useState / useEffect patterns
Working with REST APIs: GET/POST, headers, error handling
Loading states, empty states, notifications
Forms + validation basics
Practice lab: CRUD UI with API integration (or mock server)

Day 3 — Routing, patterns, and production readiness

React Router: routes, nested routes, params
State management approaches (lifting state, context intro)
Component design patterns, folder structure, reusable hooks (intro)
Basic testing overview (React Testing Library concept)
Build mini-capstone: front-end app consuming a backend API

2) Backend Bootcamp: Java + Spring Boot (3 Days)

Course overview

A practical backend bootcamp focused on building RESTful services using Java and Spring Boot, including controllers, service layers, persistence, validation, exception handling, logging, and basic testing. Participants deliver a working API suitable for a web app.

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants can:

Build REST APIs using Spring Boot (controllers, services, repositories)
Apply clean layering and dependency injection
Implement input validation, error responses, and API standards
Integrate a database using JPA/Hibernate and migrations (intro)
Write basic unit/integration tests and document APIs

Target delegates

Java developers new to Spring Boot
Backend developers needing a structured Spring Boot foundation
Full-stack developers who will maintain APIs

Prerequisites

Java fundamentals (OOP, collections, exceptions)
Basic HTTP concepts (methods, status codes)
Familiarity with SQL is helpful but not required

Course outline (3 days)

Day 1 — Spring Boot foundations + REST

Spring Boot project setup, configuration, profiles
Controllers, request mapping, DTOs
Service layer design, DI (Autowired/constructor injection)
REST conventions: status codes, idempotency, pagination (intro)
Lab: build basic endpoints (CRUD skeleton)

Day 2 — Persistence + validation + exception handling

JPA/Hibernate basics: entities, repositories, relationships
Transactions, lazy/eager loading (concepts)
Validation: Bean Validation annotations, custom validators (intro)
Global exception handling (ControllerAdvice), consistent error format

Day 3 — Quality, documentation, and integration readiness

Logging and monitoring basics, structured logs (intro)
Security baseline overview (auth concepts, not deep yet)
Testing: unit tests (service), integration tests (controller)
Mini-capstone: backend API for a sample app used by React frontend

3) Software Architecture Best Practices (3 Days)

Course overview

A best-practices course focused on designing maintainable, scalable web applications. Covers architectural styles (layered, modular monolith, microservices considerations), domain-driven thinking, API design, integration patterns, observability, reliability, and practical decision-making (tradeoffs).

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants can:

Choose an appropriate architecture (and justify tradeoffs)
Design modular boundaries and clean interfaces
Apply key patterns: layered architecture, hexagonal (intro), CQRS (intro)
Improve reliability with resilience patterns and observability
Produce key architecture deliverables (C4 diagrams, ADRs)

Target delegates

Mid-level to senior developers
Tech leads / engineering leads
Solution architects / aspiring architects
Product/engineering managers who want architecture literacy (optional)

Prerequisites

Experience building web apps (frontend or backend)
Basic understanding of REST APIs and databases
Helpful: familiarity with distributed systems concepts (not required)

Course outline (3 days)

Day 1 — Foundations + structure

Architecture goals: maintainability, scalability, security, cost
Architecture styles: layered, modular monolith, microservices (when/when not)
Domain modeling basics and bounded contexts (practical intro)
C4 model diagrams (Context/Container/Component)
Workshop: map a sample system + define boundaries

Day 2 — API, integration, and data

API design best practices: resources, versioning, pagination, error formats
Integration patterns: sync vs async, events, queues (conceptual)
Data ownership, consistency tradeoffs, transactions
Non-functional requirements and architecture checklists
Workshop: design an API + integration plan for a sample product

Day 3 — Operability + governance

Observability: logs, metrics, traces; what to instrument
Resilience patterns: retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads (intro)
Release strategies: feature flags, blue/green (conceptual)
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), quality gates, review process
Capstone: produce a lightweight architecture pack (C4 + ADRs + NFR plan)

4) Web Application Security (3 Days)

Course overview

A hands-on security course that teaches developers and technical teams how to identify and prevent common web application risks (OWASP-aligned), apply secure coding practices across frontend and backend, and integrate security into SDLC (DevSecOps mindset).

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants can:

Recognize common web threats and real attack paths
Implement secure authentication/session handling patterns (conceptual + practical)
Prevent injection flaws, XSS, CSRF, and insecure access control
Secure APIs (validation, rate limiting concepts, secure headers)
Improve app security posture with secure SDLC practices and testing approaches

Target delegates