Note
My attempt to go through the book has concluded with the end of Part I. I did not continue Part II. Will instead attempt to work on my own personal projects.
My attempt to follow along with the The Complete Developer book (No Starch Press).
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Technologies / packages touched on (to varying degrees) during the 2026 revisit:
- Bun
- Biome
- Concurrently
- Fastify
- GraphQL (via Apollo Server)
- Hono
- Next
- Node
- Typescript
- Zod (@hono/zod-validator)
- Revisit the applications created in 2025, but skip the part that includes GraphQL and MongoDb for when I will go over them again in the book.
- Continue the read through of the book up to Part II. From what I recall, my 2025 pass of the book only covered Part I and only lightly touched on Part II where book covers creating "The Food Finder" Application.
- Recreate the "The Food Finder" application using a different stack, and possibly diverge from the book and continue it as it's own standalone project.
- To prepare for the above, I plan to already attempt to recreate the examples provided in the book with the above stack in my 2026 revisit, where possible.
A more complete list of potential ideas to pick up can be found in the Improvements wishlist docs.