Next.js MERN Course: Build AI LMS & Coding Platform (2026)

Set up your local environment with VS Code, Node.js LTS, and MongoDB Compass for a responsive Next.js full-stack project, covering mern, ai-driven content creation, and secure payments and role-based access.

Set up a Next.js LMS project by installing Node.js, npm, and VS Code, then create app with npm create next step latest, run npm run dev, and view at localhost:3000.

learn to install Material UI in a Next.js project, verify React compatibility, run npm install, and start using Material UI components like buttons, icons, and text fields with basic examples.

Build a responsive LMS navbar for the computer science portal using Material UI, with a left title, a centered logo, and right-side links for courses, jobs, practice, and contest.

Explore building a responsive lms navbar component with hover-driven arrow rotation, a stateful hover index, a centered logo, right-side icons, and a mobile drawer.

Build an LMS navbar component with a responsive drawer toggle, menu items, styled buttons, and a hamburger menu for small devices, plus click and keydown handling to control the drawer.

Implement a login modal using the Material UI modal component, manage a boolean state to open and close it, and render login and register components inside the modal.

Implement a login and register modal using material UI, with tabbed sign in and sign up, managed by state, and dynamic fields for name, email, password, and organization.

Create a signup component by defining form state for name, email, password, and organization, handle changes, manage loading and errors, and submit with validation.

Implement signup form validation to check name, email, password, and organization, show errors, and prevent submission; then send data to a server endpoint with fetch, handling loading and toast notifications.

Learn to connect frontend to backend by creating a config.js with db uri and API settings, exporting modules, and implementing a server-side register API that hashes passwords with bcrypt.

Define a Mongoose user schema for MongoDB with fields for name, email, image, password, organization, role, and subscription, enabling timestamps and unique, trimmed, lowercase emails, and export the user model.

Creates register api route by connecting to a MongoDB database via a db connect utility, checks for an existing email, hashes the password with bcrypt, and saves the new user.

learn to implement react google reCAPTCHA on the signup component, including client-side integration, handling reCAPTCHA tokens, and server-side verification with a retry mechanism using node fetch.

Implement NextAuth-based authentication with a signup and login flow, including reCAPTCHA human verification, form handling, and credentials-based sign in, plus configuring auth options.

Learn how to configure next auth providers with a credential provider and connect to the database. Hash and verify passwords with bcrypt, and implement JWT-based sessions and login callbacks.

Set up next auth on the server side, configure an auth folder with next auth handlers, and run the project to enable email login and signup.

Display the user profile in the navbar when signed in and redirect to the correct dashboard based on user role (admin or user) with NextAuth sessions.

Implement social logins by adding Google, Facebook, GitHub, and LinkedIn buttons with material icons and dividers. Style the buttons and configure on-click sign-in flows for each provider.

Implement Google and GitHub social logins for a computer science portal by configuring OAuth credentials, updating NextAuth.js providers, testing sign-in, and saving user profiles, while skipping Facebook and LinkedIn.

Learn how to implement middleware to guard admin and user routes using next auth, tokens, and user roles, redirecting unauthorized users to the home page.

Build and integrate an admin sidebar for the dashboard using Material UI and typography, with responsive drawer behavior, role management, and icon-based menu routing.

Build an admin sidebar with menu items for dashboard, content, courses, categories, users, pricing, and sign out using next-auth, icons, routes, and responsive hover drawer.

Implement responsive admin sidebar behavior for a computer science portal: show top navigation on small screens, reveal a left drawer on menu click, and toggle drawer state.

Create a category model with Mongoose by defining a category schema that includes name and slug fields, both required and trimmed, and enabling timestamps to track creation and updates.

Build a category api with get and post methods using MongoDB, slug generation, and error handling. Fetch all categories sorted by creation date and return created category to the client.

create a dynamic put and delete api for category by id, connect to MongoDB with db connect, and use the category model to update or delete records.

Create the create category component, set up the admin folder for category manager, import the sidebar, and implement the category manager with its styles to render a functional interface.

Create an add/edit category input with a Material UI text field and useState for new category and editing id and name. Update onChange and enable button when input is non-empty.

Learn how to set up Redux Toolkit with React Redux, create a category slice and async thunk, and configure a store for global state management.

Learn to implement redux toolkit actions to create and update categories, dispatch updates, and manage state with dispatch and selectors while communicating with the server using post and put requests.

Fetch categories from the API using an async thunk, handle pending, fulfilled, and rejected states in Redux, and display category names in a list with edit and delete icons.

Master the category CRUD by implementing create, read, update, and delete operations with redux thunks, dispatches, and useEffect, ensuring live UI updates and error handling.