As the world is moving to the internet, so are our tools for learning and acquiring knowledge in different disciplines. Right now on the web, there is a plethora of online platforms that offer both educators and students options to teach and learn different topics remotely, without the necessity to be physically co-located in a classroom.
In this chapter, we will build a simple online classroom application, by extending the MERN stack skeleton application. This classroom application will support multiple user roles, the addition of course content and lessons, student enrollments, progress tracking, and course enrollment statistics. While building out this application, we will uncover more capabilities of this stack, such as how to implement role-based access to resources and actions, how to combine multiple schemas, and how to run different...
