MEAN stack or MERN stack ?
In the field of web development, full-stack development is playing a vital role. A full-stack development provides a solution for perfect solutions for front-end, back-end, testing, mobile application. In today’s world, the demand for a full-stack developer is rising tremendously. A full-stack developer can take care of the entire design structure of a project. There exist different full-stack development frameworks like MEAN stack and MERN stack.
MEAN stack
Angular.js front end: Angular.js is at the top of the MEAN stack. It is a self-styled “JavaScript Framework”. Angular.js allows you to extend your HTML tags with metadata to create dynamic, interactive web experiences in much more powerful ways.
Express.js and Node.js Server Tier: Express.js is the next step of MEAN stack, running on a Node.js server. Express.js is a fast, minimalist web framework for Node.js. Express.js has powerful models for URL routing and handling HTTP requests and responses.
MongoDB Database Tier: If we need to store any data, then we need a database like MongoDB. JSON documents created in Angular.js front end are sent to the Express.js server, where they are processed and stored directly in MongoDB for later retrieval.
MERN stack: MERN is an abbreviation which stands for MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, Node.js. This framework also provides quick and easy development of web and mobile applications using java as its main component. Main components of MERN are as follows.
MERN stack
React.js front end: React.js is at the top of the development stack. It is declarative JavaScript framework for creating dynamic client-side applications. React.js let us build up complex interfaces through simple components, connect them to data on our backend server.
Express.js and Node.js server tier: It plays same roles in MERN stack as in the MEAN stack as mentioned above.
MongoDB Database tier: It plays the same roles in the MERN stack as in the MEAN stack as mentioned above.
What do I Prefer ?
Companies like Accenture, Raindrop, Vungle, Fiverr, UNIQLQ, and Sisense among others use MEAN in their tech stacks. Brands such as UberEats, Instagram, and Walmart use MERN stack. Both the stacks provide an incredible user experience. Stability and scalability can be achieved with both stacks.
From this we can conclude that enterprise level projects require MEAN over MERN. MERN makes rendering UI simpler. Both are reliable for a quick front end development.
MEAN is good for large scale application. MERN is good for faster development of smaller applications.
