Programming Web Applications with Node, Express and Pug

© Jörg Krause 2017

Jörg Krause, Programming Web Applications with Node, Express and Pug , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2511-0_2

2. The Components of an Application

Jörg Krause¹ 

(1)Berlin, Germany

MEAN stands for MongoDb, Express, AngularJS and Node. Node is the basis of the stack. Express supplies a comfortable entrance to HTTP. AngularJS serves the client with the help of an MVC Pattern (Model View Controller). MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database, which can deal directly with JSON data. Everything together illustrates a complete server and client page environment on the basis of JavaScript. Certainly, there’s way more to it in practice:

• HTML as a basis for CSS, at best in a group with a preprocessor such as LESS and a CSS Framework such as Bootstrap ...