April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
716 pages
18h 55m
English
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The MERN stack
MongoDB, Express, React, and Node are all used in tandem to build web applications and make up the MERN stack. In this lineup, Node and Express bind the web backend together, MongoDB serves as the NoSQL database, and React makes the frontend that the user sees and interacts with.
All four of these technologies are free, open source, cross-platform, and JavaScript-based, with extensive community and industry support. Each technology has a unique set of attributes, which, when integrated together, make a simple but effective full JavaScript stack for web development.
Since these are independent technologies, it is also important to recognize these as moving parts in your project that need to be configured, combined, and extended ...