MEAN

For other uses, see Mean (disambiguation).

MEAN refers to first letters of the four components of a free and open-source solution stack for building dynamic web sites. MEAN is a full-stack JavaScript platform designed for web applications. Valeri Karpov was a MongoDB developer at that time, who coined the MEAN stack term, and tells about it in one of his blog posts. The components of the MEAN stack are as follows:

• MongoDB, a NoSQL database;
• Express.js, a web applications framework;
• Angular.js, a JavaScript MVC framework for web apps;
• Node.js, a software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications.

Logos

Original MEAN stack logo

The initial logo concept was created by Austin Anderson for the original MEAN stack LinkedIn group, and is an assembly of each first letter of the MEAN acronym.

Frameworks

The original creator of the MEAN stack framework is Amos Haviv, who worked with Linnovate, to provide an open source MEAN stack framework, which evolved to MEAN.io today, one of the most used MEAN stack frameworks is the one created by linnovate : mean.io. which is an opinionated fullstack javascript framework which simplifies and accelerates web application development. After MEAN.io's creation, Amos Haviv has parted from Linnovate, which he tells about it in his blog, and continued to fork MEAN.JS as a community collaborated MEAN framework project.

See also

• LAMP (software bundle)
• MAMP
• WAMP

External links

• meanjs.org
• mean.io
• How to get started on the MEAN stack
• Austin MEAN Stack Development Meetup
• MEAN Stack Meetup, London, UK