How To Develop and Build MERN Stack

A step by step guide with an example project

There are so many ways we can build React apps and ship them for production. One way is to build the React app with NodeJS and MongoDB as a database. There are four things that make this stack popular and you can write everything in Javascript. The four things are MongoDB, React, Express, and NodeJS. This stack can be used for a lot of use cases in web development.

The entire frontend is written in React and we are using MongoDB as a document database. The express and NodeJS are used for the middle layer. In this post, we will see the details and implementation of the MERN Stack. We will go through step by step with an example project.

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Example Project
• Project Structure
• Set up a MongoDB Atlas
• Building API
• Configure MongoDB In API
• Externalize the Environment Variables
• Building UI
• Make API Calls From UI
• Development Environment Setup
• Running on Docker Compose
• Dockerize MERN Stack
• Linting