Introducing MEAN
MEAN is an abbreviation for MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js. The concept behind it is to use only JavaScript-driven solutions to cover the different parts of your application. The advantages are great and are as follows:
- A single language is used throughout the application
- All the parts of the application can support and often enforce the use of the MVC architecture
- Serialization and deserialization of data structures is no longer needed, because data marshaling is done using JSON objects
However, there are still a few important questions that remain unanswered:
- How do you connect all the components together?
- Node.js has a huge ecosystem of modules, so which modules should you use?
- JavaScript is paradigm agnostic, so how can you ...
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