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What is the MEAN Stack?

Each letter in the word MEAN has some specific meaning. Here, ‘M’ stands for MongoDB, ‘E’ stands for Express, ‘A’ stands for Angular, and ‘N’ stands for Node.js. It is one of the most popular stacks used for developing the full stack application. Let’s understand the basic idea behind the MEAN Stack.

MEAN is comprised of four different technologies:

MEAN Stack refers to a collection of JavaScript technologies used to develop web applications. Therefore, from the client to the server and from server to database, everything is based on JavaScript. MEAN is a full-stack development toolkit used to develop fast and robust web applications.

MEAN is a user-friendly stack which is the ideal solution for building dynamic websites and applications. This free and open-source stack offers a quick and organized method for creating rapid prototypes for web-based applications.

MEAN Stack Architecture

MEAN architecture is comprised of four different JavaScript technologies when they are stacked successively. The architecture is designed so that each component performs specific tasks individually as well as in sync with other layers in the stack to achieve an end goal.

In the MEAN architecture that’s shown in the following diagram, the client initiates the requests, which flow right from the first layer down to the last. Appropriate responses to those requests then flow right through all the layers back up to the client.

MEAN is written in one language for both server-side and client-side execution.

MEAN Stack Architecture Explanation

When the client makes any request it is firstly processed by the AngularJS. AngularJS is a client-side language in JavaScript.
After that, the request enters phase 2 which is NodeJS. NodeJS is a server-side language in JavaScript.
In phase 3, which is ExpressJS makes the request to the database.
MongoDB retrieves the data & returns the response back to the ExpressJS.
Then ExpressJS sends a response back to the NodeJS and then NodeJS forwards it to the AngularJS to display the result.

MEAN Stack Components

What is MongoDB?

MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program. NoSQL is used as an alternative to traditional relational databases. NoSQL databases are quite useful for working with large sets of distributed data. MongoDB is a tool that can manage document-oriented information, store or retrieve information.

The MongoDB database is developed and managed by MongoDB.Inc under SSPL(Server Side Public License) and initially released in February 2009. It also provides official driver support for all the popular languages like C, C++, C#, and .Net, Go, Java, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Motor, Ruby, Scala, Swift, Mongoid. So, that you can create an application using any of these languages. Nowadays there are so many companies that used MongoDB like Facebook, Nokia, eBay, Adobe, Google, etc. to store their large amount of data.

What is ExpressJs?

Express is a fast, unopinionated minimalist web framework for Node.js

It provides various features that make web application development fast and easy which otherwise takes more time using only Node.js.

Express is a mature, flexible, lightweight server framework. It is designed for building single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications. This lightweight framework uses the Pug engine to provide support for templates.

Express.js is a free and open-source software used as a back-end web application framework.

Express.js is based on the Node.js middleware module called connect which in turn uses http module. So, any middleware which is based on connect will also work with Express.js.

Pre-requisites to learn Express:

What is AngularJS?

Angular.js is a JavaScript framework that is used to develop web applications. This framework is developed by the Google.

Angular is a Front-end Open Source Framework.

It is mainly used to introduce the MVC architecture in browser-based applications that make the development and testing processes easier. Angular helps us in creating a smarter web app that supports personalization.

Angular projects are simple to create using Angular CLI (Command Line Interface) tool developed by the Angular team.

Angular has everything such as data binding, basic templating directives, form validation, routing, deep linking, reusable components, and dependency injection, which are required to build a CRUD application. It has the property of a testability story which includes unit-testing, end-to-end testing, mocks, and test harnesses.

Pre-requisites to learn Angular

What is NodeJS?

Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment. It is a popular tool for almost any kind of project!

Node.js can performs an I/O operation, like reading from the network, accessing a database or the filesystem, instead of blocking the thread and wasting CPU cycles waiting, Node.js will resume the operations when the response comes back.

With Node.js web applications, you can now work in real-time and have a 2-way communication. The state is maintained, and either the client or server can start the communication.

Many of the basic modules of Node.js are written in JavaScript. Node.js is mostly used to run real-time server applications.

Pre-requisites to learn NodeJS

Advantages of MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack allows developers to deploy web applications immediately on a server. It avoids deployment to a standalone server first.
The components in MEAN Stack are open source.
MEAN Stack is highly flexible during web application development.
Easier developing, testing, and deploying phases of the application in Cloud with MEAN Stack.
MEAN Stack heavily uses single-page applications which reduce refreshing web pages. Hence making it more popular among businesses and developers.
JS simplifies the server layer.
When you need to develop an application within limited timelines, then MEAN is the way to go. Allows creating a simple open source solution and build robust and maintainable solutions.
When you need to develop an application within limited timelines, then MEAN is the way to go.
MEAN stack works on JavaScript, and a huge community consisting of JavaScript language can act as an active Dev community for MEAN stack

Disadvantages of MEAN Stack

MEAN Stack is not a feasible option for large-scale applications.
Whenever a network partitioning occurs, mainly in heavy load scenarios, there is a significant chance that you can end up losing records that have been written successfully by MongoDB.
Express is versatile and non-opinionated, it forces the developer to make a lot of potentially unneeded tool and library selections.
MEAN stack, in comparison to relational databases, doesn’t actually provide a similar level of functionality.
Google providing the framework as well as the runtime environment for the MEAN, the stack is still generally considered as less safe from the standpoint of data security.
Express.js has certainly poor isolation of server from the entire business logic.