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Why Mean Stack JS

The best developers want to be efficient and productive, quickly prototyping and experimenting, able to build successes into production-ready applications. We believe Mean Stack JS gives developers of all skill levels—whether at enterprise scale or working solo—an ideal open-source toolset for building rapid, scalable Javascript applications. We'll provide you a simple project structure that is versatile enough to quickly apply to your own development projects. Want to get started?

How to Learn Mean Stack JS

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What is Mean Stack JS?

  • MongoDB - MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database, empowering businesses to be more agile and scalable
  • Express - Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications
  • AngularJS - based framework. -AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop
  • Node.js - Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications

Features

We are building this framework to make the development process as simple and scalable as possible. Usable by everyone involved in software development from User Experience Designers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Software Engineers, Frontend Developers, Backend Developers & Full Stack Engineers.

Some key features in the framework we like listed below:

  • Customizable CLI for scaffolding of modules
  • Can Build Dynamic Api's based off Schema
  • Can Open Dynamic Query with routes
  • LiveReload & Recompile in Development Env
  • Not Dependent on Grunt or Gulp
  • No Magic Wand
  • Uses JS Standard & John Papa Angular Style
  • UI framework agnostic - Use Bootstrap , Materialize or Foundation
  • JWT for api auth
  • Simple Project Structure
  • Supports CSS, SCSS & LESS
  • Supports Clustering
  • Supports Environments: Development, Test & Production
  • Docker
  • Swagger.io
  • NightWatch E2E
  • Mongodb Admin Web Portal
  • Babel ES6 support(Coming Later in 1.x)

What we want to do moving forward with this project is to layout a road map so that you can give your thoughts and let us know what we can add to make your life easier with this framework. We welcome all of those who wish to contribute and be apart of this. Join us in building Mean Stack Js

Getting Started

# Get the latest snapshot
git clone https://github.com/greenpioneersolutions/meanstackjs.git

# Change directory
cd meanstackjs

# Install NPM dependencies
npm install

# Start up the server
npm start
# or
node index.js
# or
nodemon index.js
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