Introduction to the MEAN Stack

About me

Yoann Gotthilf, startup CTO & Web/Mobile freelance

• Web developer for 13 years• Fullstack JS developer for 18 months• IT security consultant during 6 years• Android developer for 6 years

yoann.gotthilf at gmail.com • @ygotthilf

MEAN is an acronyme

MEAN is Open Source

• MongoDb• Express• AngularJS• Node.js

… And most of modules and tools

Node.js

Mean is an architecture

AngularJS

Express

MongoDB

(Mongoose)

Front-end

Single Page Application

Back-end

JSON REST API

Database

REST/JSON

TCP/BSON

Mean is Javascript

Full-Stack JavascriptNode.js

AngularJS

Express

MongoDB

(Mongoose)

REST/JSON

TCP/BSON

Mean is JSON

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Node.js

AngularJS

Express

MongoDB

(Mongoose)

REST/JSON

TCP/BSON

MEAN is not LAMP

LAMP is•Linux•Apache•PHP•MySQL

MEAN is

MEAN is not LAMP

LAMP is•Linux•Apache•PHP•MySQL

MEAN isCloud ComputingNode.jsExpress & AngularJSMongoDB

Questions?