I regret not getting involved in back-end dev earlier. I come from a visual background so I was initially very attracted to front-end and UI / UX design, and begrudgingly did back-end work when mandatory. Over the past year or so I've gotten way more into back-end, and am finding just as much satisfaction in this aspect of development.

Hi, http://mern.io/ might be a great introduction for you - Their docs are pretty good, and the starter kit is pretty sensibly laid out. When I was initially playing with MERN stack I read through the MERN.io starter and definitely came out the other side with a better understanding of proper structure and conventions. I also found this hashnode post that seems to also be a nice introduction - https://hashnode.com/post/react-tutorial-using-mern-stack-ciiyus9m700qqge53mer0isxz Good luck with your app!

next project: a linter that enforces this style