AI-Assisted Full-Stack Next.js Task Manager with Codex

Overview

Learn to build with Codex as your dev partner: scaffold a Next.js app, create API routes, and ship a full task manager with CRUD, filtering, and validation. Iterate on backend and frontend—from services to UI with optimistic updates—and finish with a polished, production-ready app.

What you'll learn

Direct Codex to specific files, set clear boundaries, and review its changes before accepting them
Design task models, service layers, repositories, and structured API responses
Build CRUD API routes with validation, filtering, logging, and protection
Implement in-memory and file-based persistence without changing the API contract
Create reusable dashboard components with navigation and task filtering
Develop create, edit, and delete workflows with optimistic updates
Handle loading, errors, confirmations, and user feedback across the application

Skills you'll practise

Create Read Update and Delete (CRUD)Application Programming Interface (API)Next.js (Javascript Library)Service Layer JSON Full Stack Development Optimism Artificial Intelligence

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.

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Free to audit

Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate $55). Audit access may end after the course closes.

Before you start

Beginner: Prompt Engineering and Optimization (Codex, Nextjs, React, TypeScript)

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