Why MEAN Stack for your next WebApp
In today’s dynamic world, churning out rapid application prototypes with super-flexible design which adapts to volatile specifications is the key business requirement. This necessitates a software stack which gives the required freedom and power to the developer to assume a flexible, locally owned schema, in-built support for end to end testability and harness the ever growing open source repository of re-usable plugins for speedy iterations. MEAN stack has proven to be an attractive choice to fulfil the above requirements. MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular & Node.js) is an open source JavaScript bundle for web-applications consisting of following components which can very well be used independently: MongoDB - a schema-less (document-oriented) NoSQL database Express.js - a server-side JavaScript framework running on top of Node.js Angular - a browser-independent MVC JavaScript UI framework Node.js - a server-side JavaScript runtime based upon Google's V8 JavaScript e...