Tech Stack

MERN: Mongo Express React Node

MERN stands for MongoDB, Express, React, Node. The four key technologies that make up the stack.

MongoDB - A document and JSON-oriented database.
- What is MongoDB?
- What is a Schemaless Database?
- MongoDB Examples
- Documentation
- Stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents
  - Fields can vary from document to document and data structure can be changed over time.
  - JSON-style documents which can have varying sets of fields with different data types for each field
  - Key-value pairs
- Distributed Database - high availability, horizontal scaling
Express.js - Fast minimalist web framework for Node.js.
- Express routing
  - Routing - how an application’s endpoints (URIs) respond to client requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
- Express API Reference
React.js - React components can be used on the client and server side.
Node.js - Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
- A JavaScript runtime environment.
- Typically executing the JavaScript runtime in a server side fashion (not running node apps as the client).
- Mostly used on the server-side
- Designed to build scalable network applications

Mermaid - a js markdown tool used for creating diagrams and other charts.
- Additional mermaid documentation - "Draw diagrams with Markdown" article