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About the MEAN Stack
MEAN stands for MongoDB, Express.js, Angular (4) and Node.js. All these technologies are open-source. The stack is simply a code and technologies reorganization, migrated from the Linux platform to an execution environment based on JS.
Using Node.js primarily for the base server component in this version. is a software platform built on Google’s V8 Javascript engine, designed to build scalable network applications. It makes use of an event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking I/O model and a single-threaded event loop which allows high throughput and application scalability.
Angular is developed and maintained by Google and allows us to modularize our front-end code and minimize development issues.
Express.jsis a web framework over Node.js, which allows us to abstract from the HTTP complexity.
MongoDB grants replication, scalability, high availability and it is document-oriented. A relational database might be found more efficient in which case the data layer should be interchangeable.