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Ship Your Portfolio: Six Real Projects That Get You Hired

Build, deploy and document six projects that prove you can do the job, not just the tutorial.

9 students

MH Created by Marcus Hale

  • Last updated August 2026
  • English
  • 22h of material
  • 165 lessons

What you will learn

8 concrete outcomes

Every bullet below is something you will have built, shipped or be able to explain by the time you finish the last lesson.

  • Choose projects that demonstrate judgement rather than tutorial completion
  • Publish a command-line tool to a package registry with versioning and documentation
  • Build and deploy a full-stack application with authentication, roles and uploads
  • Implement a real-time collaborative feature over WebSockets with reconnection handling
  • Integrate a third-party API with retries, idempotency and a webhook receiver
  • Set up continuous integration, error tracking and a TLS deployment for every project
  • Write a README and architecture note that a reviewer can skim in thirty seconds
  • Make a genuine open-source contribution from issue to merged pull request

Course curriculum

8 modules · 165 lessons · 22h of material

14 lessons running 1h 50m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

22 lessons running 2h 56m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

24 lessons running 3h 12m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

30 lessons running 4h 00m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

26 lessons running 3h 28m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

24 lessons running 3h 10m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

14 lessons running 1h 52m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

11 lessons running 1h 32m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

8 modules · 165 lessons

22h total length

Requirements

Short list, and deliberately so. If you meet these you can start today.

  • You can already build small applications in JavaScript or TypeScript
  • Node 20 or newer, Git, a container runtime and a free hosting account
  • Around eight hours a week; the six projects are substantial by design

About this course

Hiring managers do not read a list of technologies, they open one repository and skim it for thirty seconds. This course is engineered around that reality. You build six projects that survive that skim: real problems, real deployments, commit histories that read like work, and README files that explain a decision instead of listing dependencies.

The projects escalate deliberately. A command-line tool published to a package registry. A data dashboard consuming a public API with caching and graceful degradation. A full-stack application with authentication, roles and file uploads. A real-time collaborative feature built on WebSockets. An integration service that talks to a third-party API with retries, idempotency and a webhook receiver. Finally an open-source contribution to an existing project, from issue triage through a merged pull request.

Every project ships. That means a deployment with TLS, continuous integration running tests and linting, error tracking, a demo account so a reviewer never faces an empty screen, and documentation covering architecture, trade-offs and known limitations. The closing modules cover writing about your work, presenting projects in an interview, and answering the question every reviewer asks: what would you change if you rebuilt it.

Topics covered

Frequently asked questions

Still unsure about something? Write to misteryjj100@gmail.com and a human answers, usually the same working day.

Each project defines the requirements and constraints, not the domain, and every module includes a brief for choosing your own subject. Reviewers see the engineering, and yours will differ.

No. Every deployment uses a free tier, and the container-based instructions also work on any small virtual private server if you prefer to own the host.

It is aimed at people seeking a first or second role, but developers switching stacks use it to demonstrate credibility in a new ecosystem quickly.

Around twelve weeks at eight hours a week for all six projects. Many people ship the first three, start applying, and finish the rest while interviewing.

Checkout is handled on our provider's secure payment page. The moment your payment clears we email your personal access link and access code to the address you used at checkout, and the same link appears in your account library. There is nothing to install and nothing to wait for.

Email misteryjj100@gmail.com within 14 days of your purchase, quote your order number, and we refund the full amount to your original payment method. No form to fill in and no questions about how much of the course you watched.

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Your instructor

MH

Marcus Hale

Web engineer and JavaScript educator

  • 259 students taught
  • 12 courses published
  • 4.7 instructor rating
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js

Marcus has shipped front ends for two ad-tech startups and one very large retailer, which taught him more about performance budgets than any blog post could. He teaches JavaScript and TypeScript from the runtime up — event loop first, framework second — then follows the same code through Node on the server side. Every one of his courses ends with a deployed application rather than a folder of exercises. He writes a weekly newsletter on browser performance.

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