MEAN vs Cocoa Touch (iOS)

Overview

MEAN

Stacks337

Followers617

Votes594

GitHub Stars12.1K

Forks3.4K

Cocoa Touch (iOS)

Stacks202

Followers208

Votes12

Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs MEAN: What are the differences?

What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)? The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps. The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.

What is MEAN? A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development. MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and MEAN belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

"Backed by Apple" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Cocoa Touch (iOS), while over 84 developers mention "Javascript" as the leading cause for choosing MEAN.

MEAN is an open source tool with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.57K GitHub forks. Here's a link to MEAN's open source repository on GitHub.

CodeLordz, ClickBalance, and Adsia are some of the popular companies that use MEAN, whereas Cocoa Touch (iOS) is used by Apple, Snapchat, and Third Iron. MEAN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Cocoa Touch (iOS), which is listed in 32 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

MEAN	Cocoa Touch (iOS)
MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.	The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 12.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 3.4K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 337	Stacks 202
Followers 617	Followers 208
Votes 594	Votes 12
Pros & Cons
Pros 86 Javascript 62 Easy 58 Nosql 52 Great community 50 Mongoose	Pros 6 Backed by Apple 4 It's just awesome 2 User Friendly Performance
Integrations
MongoDB Node.js ExpressJS AngularJS	Objective-C Swift

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