This document provides an overview of the MEAN stack, which is a full-stack JavaScript framework that simplifies and accelerates web application development. It defines MEAN as an acronym for the technologies it incorporates: MongoDB for the database, Express for the server framework, AngularJS for the client-side framework, and Node.js for the runtime environment. Each technology is described in 1-2 sentences. The document then discusses advantages like using a single programming language throughout and disadvantages like lack of coding guidelines. It concludes that MEAN provides a fast, easy way to build modern web applications.

1. Kishore Chandra
UI Specialist & Full Stack Developer
M E A N

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• What is LAMP?
• Requirements for a modern web
• What is MEAN?
• What is MongoDB?
• What is Express?
• What is Angular JS?
• What is Node.JS?
• Disadvantages of MEAN STACK
• Conclusion
• Any Questions?

3. Introduction
• MEAN is an opinionated full stack JavaScript
framework which simplifies and accelerates web
application development.
• MEAN represents a major shift in architecture and
mental models — from relational databases to
NoSQL and from server-side Model-View-Controller
to client-side, single-page applications.
• MEAN is an acronym for Mongo DB, Express
JS, Angular JS and Node. Js.

4. What is LAMP ?
• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• LAMP stack is a popular open source web platform commonly
used to run dynamic web sites and servers.
• It includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Perl and is
considered by many the platform of choice for development
and deployment of high performance web applications which
require a solid and reliable foundation.

5. Problems with LAMP?
• Apache is not the fastest web server around
• It’s hard to write good-to-read, reusable and fast PHP
code
• Frontend works with other languages than the
backend
• Too many conversions (XML to PHP to HTML, model
to SQL)
• There is no separated server-side and client-side
development

6. Requirements for a
modern web?
• Customers want fast web sites/fast response times
• No page reloads
• Enterprises want to go virtual
o One box + Several virtual images => Shared Hardware
o System with minimal memory footprint/overhead needed
• As many concurrent requests as possible
• Only load resources when needed (conditional
loading)
• Mobile/Responsive UIs

7. What is MEAN Stack?
MEAN Stack is a full-stack JavaScript solution that
helps you build fast, robust and maintainable
production web applications using MongoDB, Express,
AngularJS, and Node.js.

8. • 100% free , 100% Open Source
• 100% Java Script (+JSON and HTML)
• 100% Web Standards
• Consistent Models from the backend to the frontend and back
• Use a uniform language throughout your stack
o JavaScript (the language of the web)
o JSON (the data format of the web)
o No conversion needed for the database
• Use JavaScript with a great framework (compared to jQuery)
• Allows to start with the complete frontend development first
• Very low memory footprint/overhead

9. Processing model

10. MongoDB
MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented
database - classified as a NoSQL database which
eschews the traditional table-based relational database
structure in favour of JSON-like documents with
dynamic schemas.

11. What is MongoDB
• Developed by software company 10gen (now
MongoDB Inc.)
• Fast NoSQL schemaless database written in C++
• Document-Oriented Storage
o JSON-style documents with dynamic schemas
• Full Index Support
o Index on any attribute
o Replication & High Availability
• Auto-Sharding
o Scale horizontally without compromising functionality

12. MongoDB RDBMS
Collection Table
Document Row
Index Index
Embedded Document Join
Reference Foreign Key

13. Example
>db.mycol.insert({ _id:
ObjectId(7df78ad8902c),
title: 'MongoDB Overview',
description: 'MongoDB is
no sql database', by:
'tutorials point', url:
'http://www.tutorialspoint.
com', tags: ['mongodb',
'database', 'NoSQL'], likes:
100 })

14. MongoDB - Document

15. MongoDB - Collection

16. MongoDB – Query a
database

17. Advantages And
Disadvantages
Advantages
• Lightening fast.
• Auto sharding.
• Replication is very easy.
• You can perform rich queries, can create on the fly
indexes with a single command.
Disadvantages
• Very unreliable
• Indexes take up a lot of RAM.
o B-tree indexes

18. Express JS
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.

19. What is Express ?
• Node JS based web framework
• Based on connect middleware
• Makes usage of Node JS even easier
• Easy to implement REST API
• Easy to implement session management
• Supports several template rendering engines (Jade, EJS)
o Supports partials -> so you can split your HTML in
fragments
• Asynchronous
• Implements MVC pattern

20. Express – What is it?
• Allows to set up middlewares to respond to HTTP
Requests.
• Defines a routing table which is used to perform
different action based on HTTP Method and URL.
• Allows to dynamically render HTML Pages based on
passing arguments to templates.

21. Example
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.get('/', function (req, res)
{
res.send('Hello World!'); });
app.listen(3000, function ()
{
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});

22. Advantages And
Disadvantages
Advantages
• Regardless of complexity, there should be very few
roadblocks if you know JavaScript well.
• Supports concurrency well.
• Fast and the performance is comparable with Golang
micro frameworks and Elixir's Phoenix.
Disadvantages
• There is no built in error handling methods.

23. What is Angular?
AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript
framework, maintained by Google, that assists with
running single-page applications.
• Its goal is to augment browser-based applications
with model–view–controller (MVC) capability, in an
effort to make both development and testing easier.

24. AngularJS
• JavaScript framework developed by Google
• Based on Model-View-* Pattern (client-side)
o MVC/MVVM
o Bi-Directional Data Binding
• Declarative Programming (focus on what – not the how!)
o Directives are integrated in HTML directly
o DOM Manipulations completely hidden
• Great for Frontend development
o Great for SPA (Single Page Applications)
o Great for mobile apps
• Very modular and extensible
o Makes testing an ease
• Great Browser support (> IE8)
• Well documented

25. Two Way Data-binding

26. AngularJs directives
• ng-app
o Declares an element as a root element of the application
allowing behaviour to be modified through custom HTML
tags.
• ng-bind
o Automatically changes the text of a HTML element to the
value of a given expression.
• ng-model
o Similar to ng-bind, but allows two-way data binding between
the view and the scope.
• ng-controller
o Specifies a JavaScript controller class that evaluates HTML
expressions.

27. AngularJs directives
• ng-repeat
o Instantiate an element once per item from a collection.
• ng-show & ng-hide
o Conditionally show or hide an element, depending on the
value of a boolean expression.
• ng-switch
o Conditionally instantiate one template from a set of choices,
depending on the value of a selection expression.
• ng-view
o The base directive responsible for handling routes that
resolve JSON before rendering templates driven by specified
controllers.

28. Advantages and
Disadvantages
Advantages
• Fast development
• Makes developing SPA easy
• Awesome performance
• Make apps scalable
Disadvantages
• Good for IO driven apps only (not games)

29. Node JS
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript
runtime for easily building fast, scalable network
applications.
• Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O
model that makes it lightweight and efficient,
perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that
run across distributed devices.

30. What is Node JS ?
• Written in C/C++
o Can also use C libraries
• Built on top of Chrome’s V8 engine – so pure
JavaScript!
o Therefore based on latest ECMAScript 5
• Framework to build asynchronous I/O applications
• Single Threaded – no concurrency bugs – no
deadlocks!
o Not internally though – but we’ll get to that
• One node process = one CPU Core

31. What is Node JS continue
• Can easily handle 10k concurrent connections
o Doesn’t have any problems with concurrency
o Doesn’t create much overhead (CPU/Memory)
• Easily scalable (just create a cluster)
• Very fast (well, it’s mostly C code)
• Installation and first server start within less than 5
minutes
o REST-API that replies to GET requests can be
implemented in less than 5 minutes as well!
• It’s not a web framework!

32. Blocking I/O vs.
Non-Blocking I/O

33. Example
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res)
{
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('HelloWorldn');
}).listen(80);
console.log('Server listening on port 80');

34. Advantage and
Disadvantage
Advantages
• Node.js is fast
• The ever-growing NPM
• Real-time web apps
• Productivity
Disadvantages
• JavaScript's semantics and culture

35. Disadvantages of mean
Stack
• There are still no general JS coding guidelines
• MongoDB is not as robust as an SQL server
o This security is what they sacrifice to gain speed
• Once you’ve created the first site with this
technology, it’s hard to go back to the old approach

36. Conclusion
In the end, Mean is a full stack, Javascript, web
application framework. If you require a fast, easy,
simple way to create a modern, responsive, dynamic
web site then MEAN would be a great solution.

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38. Any Questions ? ?

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