Thoughts on full-stack development, MERN stack, algorithms, and building software that ships.
Two years into a Software Engineering degree at COMSATS, two internships completed, and real products shipped — here's my honest, unfiltered take on whether a CS degree is actually worth it. Not a hot take. A lived one.
I built a full-stack appointment system with the MERN stack that cut booking time by 40%. This is a breakdown of every real decision that went into it — JWT auth with refresh tokens, MongoDB schema trade-offs, real-time slot updates with SSE, and the two things that broke the moment it hit production.
The MERN stack lets you build full-stack web apps with one language end-to-end. In this guide I break down each layer, show how they connect, and share lessons from my internship building real products with it.