Chapter 7. Leveraging the MEAN Stack

The MEAN stack is an acronym for MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. It represents full stack development using practically nothing but JavaScript alone. Naturally, you will need some HTML and CSS to render things to the browser and make them look pretty.

MongoDB is a document-based NoSQL database that stores data in ways that can be treated like plain JavaScript objects. As the data and database methods are essentially JavaScript, MongoDB plays well with JavaScript-based applications.At this point, if you typed the code correctly, there will be no output in the console other than a new line. Open your favourite browser 

Express is a web application framework, written in JavaScript that runs beautifully ...

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