Introduction to MEAN Stack

Today JavaScript is developing rapidly, the gaining popularity of MEAN Stack brings with it due to

flexibility and ease of development.

MEAN Stack is a combination of the most dynamic JavaScript based technologies.

MongoDB this is a database that uses JSON style documents and represents data in such a

way that JavaScript can interpret it easily. MongoDB is a schema less NoSQL database

system. MongoDB saves data in binary JSON format which makes it easier to pass data

between client and server.

ExpressJS Express is lightweight web application framework that provides many helpful components and modules that are used to build web applications in Node. It provides a number of robust features for building single and multi-page web application. Express is inspired by the popular Ruby framework, Sinatra.

AngularJS AngularJS is a JavaScript framework developed by Google that architects the

complex JavaScript code to modular code along with a data binding UI. It provides awesome

features like the two-way data binding. Its a complete solution for rapid and awesome front

end development.

Node.js Node.js is a server side JavaScript execution environment. Its a platform built on Google Chromes V8 JavaScript runtime. It helps in building highly scalable and concurrent applications rapidly.

Tools used to develop MEAN stack

Some of the tools that are used for development with the MEAN Stack are:

NPM which is a node package manager that helps install node modules on a per project

basis or globally.

Bower is a front end package manager developed by Twitter and helps install the front end

libraries like AngularJS and Bootstrap. Grunt is a JavaScript task runner.

Why MEAN stack

For one, it lets you write your code entirely in JavaScript, from client to server. This in itself makes

MEAN a very lucrative full-stack option for web pros whove already invested time learning

JavaScript for client-side tasks.

Second, it supports strong design patterns (in particular, MVC or Model/View/Controller) to help

guide your architecture. And of course the components of MEAN are all open-source projects, which

means the stack is free to use, regularly updating, and very flexible to both use and customize to

your needs.

These are some of the advantages of a MEAN stack:

Single language is used in the whole application

Support for the MVC pattern

JSON is used for transferring data

Node.jss huge module library

Open source so you can tweak it to your preferences if youre an experienced user.