Updated in May 2025.

This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course provides an in-depth guide to building and integrating robust backend services for a full-stack Twitter Clone using Node.js, Express, and SwiftUI. Beginning with server and user model creation, you’ll establish a secure and scalable backend environment. You'll implement essential features like user registration, login services, and profile management, ensuring that your application has a solid foundation for handling user data and authentication. As the course progresses, you'll develop advanced functionalities that bring your Twitter Clone to life. You'll learn to manage tweets, including creating, liking, and displaying them, while ensuring smooth interaction between the server and front-end components. The course covers the intricacies of integrating image upload and display functionalities, allowing users to personalize their profiles and tweets. Additionally, you’ll explore implementing follow/unfollow features and ensuring data consistency across the application. The final sections focus on enhancing user engagement with real-time notifications. You'll build systems to send, fetch, and display notifications, creating a dynamic and interactive user experience. By the end of the course, you’ll have the expertise to develop, integrate, and manage backend services that support a fully functional Twitter Clone, seamlessly connected to a SwiftUI front end. This course is ideal for developers who have experience with Node.js and Express and are looking to integrate backend services with SwiftUI applications. Familiarity with RESTful APIs and basic SwiftUI concepts will be beneficial.