How Mean Stack Development Simplify your Web App Development Process?

Let’s start with a question: what is the meaning of MEAN stack? MEAN in the IT space refers to a full-stack, user-friendly JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted scripting language that conforms to the ECMAScript specification. JavaScript has curly-bracket syntax, dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions. framework to develop dynamic web apps and websites. The MEAN stack contains free & open-source JavaScript frameworks that help you build the Front-endFront-endFront-end web development is the practice of converting data to a graphical interface, through the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, so that users can view and interact with that data. as well as the BackendBackendBackend is serverside of the website. It stores and arranges data, and also makes sure everything on the client-side of the website works fine. It is the part of the website that you cannot see and interact with. of your web apps. It has gained huge popularity among full stack developers as it is modern and efficient.

It is recommended to have prior knowledge on JavaScript, and the MEAN stack before getting into web app development. Understanding the functionalities and nuances of JavaScript will help you simplify the web app development process further. 

Exploring the MEAN Stack

MEAN is a free and open-source web application development stack for JavaScript developers. Developers can take full advantage of MongoDBMongoDBMongoDB is an open source database management system. It is one of the numerous non-relational database technologies and to support various forms of data, it uses a document-oriented database model for big data applications and other processing jobs involving data that doesn’t fit well in a rigid relational model., ExpressExpressExpress.js is a free and open-source web application framework for Node.js. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It is the standard server framework for Node.js. With Express, you can develop single-page applications, multi-page applications, and hybrid web apps., Angular JSAngular JSAngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web framework mainly maintained by Google and by a community of individuals and corporations to address many of the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications., and Node.jsNode.jsNode.js is a cross-platform runtime environment used to develop server-side and networking applications. It is an open source platform and the applications are developed using JavaScript. It can run within the Node.js runtime on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X. to develop dynamic websites and web apps. It has pre-configured modules such as Passport and Mongoose to organize the web app development process quickly and easily.

Here’s a brief description of each of the frameworks comprised in the stack.

MongoDB is a general-purpose, cross-platform, distributed database, open-source document-based program. It is a NoSQL database program and uses JSON-like documents with the schema. It helps businesses to build more agile and scalable web apps, and some of the powerful websites include Craigslist and eBay.

Express.js is a free and open-source web application framework for Node.js. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It is the standard server framework for Node.js. With Express, you can develop single-page applications, multi-page applications, and hybrid web apps.

AngularJS is a free and open-source JavaScript-based front-end framework, maintained majorly by Google. It lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your web app & the resulting environment is highly expressive, readable, and quick to develop.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser.

Why Choose MEAN Stack?

You might have wondered why MEAN stack development is popular. The specialty of MEAN is that all of its solutions are based on JavaScript. Though there are a bunch of reasons behind the popularity of MEAN, the predominant feature is simplicity. Hence, it is considered to be more popular than the previously dominant LAMP (Linux OSLinux OSLinux is a Unix-like, open-source and community-developed operating system for computers, servers, mainframes, mobile devices, and embedded devices. It is supported on almost every major computer platform including x86, ARM and SPARC, making it one of the most widely supported operating systems, Apache HTTPApache HTTPApache is an open-source and free web server software that powers around 46% of websites around the world. The official name is Apache HTTP Server., MySQLMySQLMySQL is an open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) based on the SQL. It is an open source RDBMS and runs on all platforms including UNIX, Windows, and Linux. It mostly associated with web applications and online publishing., PHPPHPHypertext Preprocessor, fondly called as PHP, is one of the widely used open source scripting language mainly focused on web development which can be embedded into HTML. In addition, it acts as a server-side scripting language as well as a general-purpose programming language.) stack.

MEAN stack helps you:

• Develop websites/web apps using a single and effective programming language (JavaScript) to create both client-side and server-side environments.

• Get the complete benefits of the widely used JavaScript programming language.

• Reduce development time.

• Explore the opportunities of open-source frameworks and customize them according to requirements.

• Get extensive community support from worldwide industry leaders.

As all the frameworks in the MEAN stack are based on JavaScript, the data flows seamlessly within the layers without any rewriting or reformatting. Unlike LAMP stack, which requires to convert with library workarounds, MEAN demands nothing as such and saves time.

Undoubtedly, Node.js offers a fast and simplified environment. Everyone would enjoy your app when it takes as little seconds as possible to perform the desired action. Node.js is faster than other rivals, such as Apache. Apart from being faster, you can make changes in your web app by using some additional JavaScript codes.

Moreover, in the MEAN stack, MongoDB is the leading NoSQL provider, and Google supports the AngularJS framework. Additionally, both AWS and Microsoft Azure support Node.js. 

MEAN stack offers:

Simplicity: As the MEAN stack focuses only on one programming language – JavaScript, it is very much easy to build web apps.

Adaptability: Since JavaScript is very much adaptable, and the solutions offered in the MEAN stack are based on JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted scripting language that conforms to the ECMAScript specification. JavaScript has curly-bracket syntax, dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions., you can develop a variety of web apps.

Simpler Data: MEAN leverages some of the common data types available on the web. This makes it easy to send data to distinct devices globally.

Above all, MEAN has an active community that updates new and improved technology. Taking the complete advantage of the MEAN stack development guides you through a seamless web app development process. Thus, you can avoid complexities and build web apps with ease.

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