From Novice to Fluent on the Modern Microsoft Web Stack — 22-Chapter Self-Study Plan
An opinionated 22-chapter self-study plan from zero to fluent on the modern Microsoft web stack: PowerShell + .NET + ASP.NET Core + React + TypeScript + Azure + KQL + Polly + Bicep — with hand-built HTML diagrams per chapter.
From Novice to Fluent on the Modern Microsoft Web Stack
A complete, opinionated 22-chapter self-study plan that takes you from total novice to fluent on the modern Microsoft web stack — the kind shipped inside Microsoft product teams and by every enterprise running ASP.NET Core + React + Azure today.
Each chapter is a self-contained deep-dive (~30 minutes reading + a weekend of exercises). This hub is the map.
The whole production system in one picture
The whole production system, in one picture. Every chapter teaches one slice.
What each chapter delivers
Pick your cadence
The 22 chapters
Capstone — Analytics Dashboard
Once chapter 17 lands, you have everything you need to start the capstone: a small but production-grade web app that exercises most of the stack together.
End-to-end correlation via operation_Id across SPA → API → SQL → KQL → AI.
Capstone architecture — one resource group, eight services, every pattern from chapters 1–22 in one repo.
Stack ingredients (all introduced above):
The capstone post (linked at the end of chapter 22) walks through repo layout, Bicep module structure, the pipeline YAML, and how each pattern from chapters 1–21 shows up in the codebase.
How to use this hub
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➡️ Chapter 1 — Developer tooling
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