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MERN Stack Tutorial

This includes Repository includes my personal notes, and cover important topics that you need to know about MERN stac...

Driptanil DattaSoftware Developer

Mar 202510 min read

MERN Stack Tutorial

This includes Repository includes my personal notes, and cover important topics that you need to know about MERN stack except ReactJS( which is present in https://github.com/driptanil/Frontend (opens in a new tab) along with HTML, CSS, JS)

Learn:

A huge shoutout to Abhishek Singh aka 6 Pack Programmer (opens in a new tab) @meabhisingh (opens in a new tab) for this excellent teaching skills and tutorials.

• Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@6PackProgrammer (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub: https://github.com/meabhisingh (opens in a new tab)

Pros:

• Single-Threaded, based on event driven, non-blocking I/O model (lightweight).
• Prefect for building fast and scalable data-intensive apps.
• Javascript is used across entire stack: faster and more efficient development.
• NPM has a huge library of open-source packages.

Cons:

• Cannot be used in Application with heavy server-side processing (CPU-intensive).
• Using Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python is a better choice.

Applications:

• API with database behind it (preferably NoSQL)
• Data streaming (like YouTube, Netflix)
• Real-time chat application
• Server-side web applications (content is generated in the server)