In today's session, we learned the fundamentals of backend development.
We learned about the basics and components of most modern websites.
We discussed the three-tier architecture and why it's important not to expose our databases to "the outside".
We what are databases and why they will play an important role in your future projects.
We dove deep into the world of SQL and NoSQL and why you should choose one of them for your next project.
We set-up and configured PostgreSQL and psql and used them to created a new database.
After learning about tables, we learned about relationships and their different types and created our tables and connected them in a way that made sense.
Finally we initialized our express application and connected to our database and retrieved data from it.