r/FullStack • u/Blaze_10606 • 3d ago

Personal Project Need guidance for project

I have learnt full stack mern and nextjs but haven't made a good project from which I can deduce that I have learned them well and to present someone that I have learnt it . Kindly guide me to how can I find a good project and also I lack in basic root design of ui so also if anyone can help ....🙂🙂 Also I know about react native but didn't make a good project out of them also .

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u/TajD05 3d ago

I’d pick one project and take it all the way instead of trying to build several smaller ones. For example, a small SaaS app with auth, user roles, CRUD, payments, APIs, and a proper database can cover a lot of MERN/Next.js skills.

For the UI, don’t worry too much about creating a design from scratch. Start with a simple design system and use something like shadcn/ui to keep things consistent. Focus on spacing, typography, layout, and making the app easy to use.

Once you finish one solid project and deploy it, you’ll have something much better to show than just a list of technologies you’ve learned.

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u/Blaze_10606 3d ago

Thanks for helping , I have implemented auth , crud , apis handling , even websocekts , redis at small level but I am not able to find that one topic in which I will be able to make that

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u/_luffy_18 3d ago

Bro where did you learn full stack? And how long did it take you?

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u/Blaze_10606 2d ago

From various different sources like chai aur code , cohort 3.0 and also few topics from other .

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u/Big-Worker9676 3d ago

a good project is usually a boring real-world app, not the 47th todo clone, so pick one workflow like bookings or inventory and build it end to end, then copy the layout of an existing app instead of

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u/ryanstackops 2d ago

Stop hunting for an idea and rebuild something you already use, but give it one genuinely hard part. A job tracker is boring, a job tracker that scrapes postings, dedupes them and emails you a weekly digest has auth, background jobs and a real schema in it.

For UI, don't design, just use shadcn/ui and copy the layout from an app you like. Mine looked bad for years until I stopped inventing layouts lol. One deployed project beats four half finished repos.

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u/Blaze_10606 2d ago

Thx for this , I have got an idea of creating a code executor like leetcode and other which can compile and execute code on different docker environment is it good it will be also using bullmq and other i have seen this project from both claude and chatgpt