io.js vs MEAN: What are the differences?

What is io.js? A friendly fork of Node.js with an open governance model. io.js is a JavaScript platform built on Chrome's V8 runtime. This project began as a fork of Joyent's Node.js and is compatible with the npm ecosystem.

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.

io.js and MEAN belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

"Compatible with NPM" is the primary reason why developers consider io.js over the competitors, whereas "Javascript" was stated as the key factor in picking 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 io.js is used by Five, SkyparkCDN, and Stampery. MEAN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to io.js, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.