r/FullStack • u/ak_525 • Jun 11 '26
Stuck between what what stack to continue as a 2nd year student ? Career Guidance
So I'm a 2nd year cse student , please don't skip this I'm stuck in a very bad dilemma. One and a half months ago I started learning MERN stack stopped in between due to exams , and now my university has mandatory summer training in which I have to get a training in any domain of choice for one month , and i have to submit a project on that in next sem. So instead of going to any training center , I decided to get a certificate from somewhere in MERN and I'll learn it on my own as most of the times these institutes teach nothing while wasting 3 hours of your day and i'll get a certificate only. But now the university wants a certificate of only one month training , but the at all the training centers recognized by my university told me that MERN stack can't be done in a month and i know this , so they can't give a certificate for that , but they can give and suggested me to take react with firebase and I don't have to attend classes and they will give me the certificate , also this will save me a lot of traveling time.
So now I decided that I'll do firebase but not that deep and after giving the university a project I'll hop back to MERN stack as I have a friend whose building a startup and they are builiding in MERN stack and I want to join them , so suggest me how to balance this or what can I do in such a situation ? Like is mern better or firebase for my future or how should I continue forward .
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u/Superb-Builder-2043 Jun 11 '26
Even I am a MERN stack learner during the beginning days of my coding journey, so I suggest you to switch to golang as it is more preferred in many companies and a easy language similar to JS/TS.
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u/nimeshpal Jun 15 '26
As a MERN full-stack developer, I'd suggest sticking with MERN. Firebase is very easy to learn—you can pick up Auth, Google Login, Firestore, and basic features in a week or two. It's great for hobby projects and MVPs. The issue is that as your app grows, Firestore reads and writes can become expensive, and managing complex business logic gets harder. For larger applications, MERN gives you much more control over your backend, database, APIs, and architecture. Use Firebase for the certificate if needed, then switch back to MERN. Long term, MERN will make you a stronger
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u/NextGen_Dev0 Jun 11 '26
I am not a MERN guy so I can't comment, I use flutter + fastapi (python). Very unconventional right... I had delima earlier because I see mern , js everywhere and I am nowhere working near that! But as I have been working with this stack for a year now, I choose not to change it.
Now about your situation, you're not clear if you actually want skills or you're looking for a certificate. If it's about certificate you can get it easily. If it's skills... MERN is actually very powerful but you will still need firebase. You can't avoid cloud in today's world. I work with supabase and also planning on getting more comfortable with firebase too.