Mean Stack
Free and open-source
MEAN is a free and open-source JavaScript software stack for building dynamic web sites and web applications. As such it is very useful for enterprise web development applications today.
MEAN stack comprises MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and NodeJS.
Some of the main advantages are:
- It is open-source.
- It is fast-paced and organized.
- The sole programming language that the stack used is JavaScript. This means every tier of the application operates in a single language.
- It is a versatile stack and can be used to build and support enterprise web development.
Since we are using one language, Javascript the code is cleaner and you do not have to manage multiple programming languages.
The four technologies comprising the MEAN stack are Mongo Db as the database, Express as the server system, Angular for front-end, and Node Js as the JavaScript server-side event-driven I/O (in/output) environment. If the framework needs to be more dynamic then the MEAN stack is important.
MEAN provides efficiency and productivity advantages over more conventional stacks of devices. A combination of Node & Express.js with a MongoDb database offers an outstanding implementation of a web-service based on JSON; not least because all stack tools can use the underlying JSON data natively. Such a web-service MEAN stack is also highly scalable — due to the advantages of both Node and MongoDb.
Although systematically assessing the merits of running Node and other scripting languages & interpreters directly on the hardware was outside the reach of this work; this research has shown that this is possible — and needs further exploration and consideration of use cases.
It is both possible and appealing to use a web-service to securely allow remote software updates. As the technology matures, the use of software containers to enable the scalable deployment of MEAN stack web-service also merits further exploration. Mean stack technology improves day by day and is convenient to use as well.
