August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
214 pages
4h 31m
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A development stack is actually a very loosely defined term, which actually refers to the list of technologies and frameworks that you need in order to get an application up-and-running. It's called a stack because each layer is more and more abstracted from the user. Consider the example of the popular MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js). If we were to actually make a physical stack out of these, it would look like this:

AngularJS is served by the Express server, which is run by the Node.js JavaScript runtime, which in turn is able to interact with the MongoDB database.
What's important to note is that ...
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