rafttio / mean

The MEAN stack uses Mongo, Express, Angular(6) and Node for simple and scalable fullstack js applications

Welcome to the mean stack

The mean stack is intended to provide a simple and fun starting point for cloud native fullstack javascript applications.
MEAN is a set of Open Source components that together, provide an end-to-end framework for building dynamic web applications; starting from the top (code running in the browser) to the bottom (database). The stack is made up of:

• MongoDB : Document database – used by your back-end application to store its data as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) documents
• Express (sometimes referred to as Express.js): Back-end web application framework running on top of Node.js
• Angular (formerly Angular.js): Front-end web app framework; runs your JavaScript code in the user's browser, allowing your application UI to be dynamic
• Node.js : JavaScript runtime environment – lets you implement your application back-end in JavaScript

Pre-requisites

• git - Installation guide .
• node.js - Download page .
• npm - comes with node or download yarn - Download page .
• mongodb - Download page .

Installation

git clone https://github.com/linnovate/mean
cd mean
cp .env.example .env
yarn
yarn start (for development)

Docker based

⚠️ Make sure your Docker version is 19.03.0+.

git clone https://github.com/linnovate/mean
cd mean
cp .env.example .env
docker-compose up -d

Alternative - Develop with Raftt

What is Raftt?

Raftt is a cloud-based development infrastructure that lets you spawn remote dev envs without the need for any local setup and while keeping the tools and experience of local environments.

Pre-requisites

• git - Installation guide .
• Raftt installation guide

That's all. No need to install Node.js, MongoDB etc..

Interactive debugging

Using Raftt allows interactively debugging microservices with minimal configuration.
See here documentation about configuring debugging.

How to start development

git clone https://github.com/linnovate/mean
cd mean
cp .env.example .env
Mac OS  - brew install rafttio/tap/raftt or curl -fsSL get.raftt.io/install | bash
Linux   - sudo snap install raftt --classic or curl -fsSL get.raftt.io/install | bash
Windows - Download and run (https://get.raftt.io/windowsinstall)
raftt up

Credits

• The MEAN name was coined by Valeri Karpov.
• Initial concept and development was done by Amos Haviv and sponsered by Linnovate.
• Inspired by the great work of Madhusudhan Srinivasa.