# Learning Full-Stack Development Through Side Projects

DevFeed: [Learning Full-Stack Development Through Side Projects](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/learning-full-stack-project-28711.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/10/27/full-stack-project/>)

Author: info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)

Published: 2024-10-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Jeroen Mols](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeroen-mols.md>)

Topics: [Full Stack Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/full-stack-development.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

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## AI overview

The author explains how moving from mobile development to a full-stack team exposed gaps in foundational knowledge, especially around architecture and starting projects from scratch. They describe using side projects to learn and introduce a finance manager project built with React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.

## Source excerpt

After pivoting my career to full-stack development, I missed the "depth" I used to have on mobile. So to build out more foundational full-stack knowledge, I decided to build a few side projects.