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MEAN vs Phoenix Framework: What are the differences?

Developers describe MEAN as "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. On the other hand, Phoenix Framework is detailed as "Most web frameworks make you choose between speed and a productive environment. Phoenix gives you both". Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

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

"Javascript", "Easy" and "Nosql" are the key factors why developers consider MEAN; whereas "High performance", "Super fast" and "Rapid development" are the primary reasons why Phoenix Framework is favored.

MEAN and Phoenix Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Phoenix Framework with 14K GitHub stars and 1.76K forks on GitHub has more adoption than MEAN with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.57K GitHub forks.

DNSBL.io, inkl, and The RealReal are some of the popular companies that use Phoenix Framework, whereas MEAN is used by CodeLordz, ClickBalance, and Adsia. Phoenix Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 73 company stacks & 46 developers stacks; compared to MEAN, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

Decisions about MEAN and Phoenix Framework

#rust #elixir So am creating a messenger with voice call capabilities app which the user signs up using phone number and so at first i wanted to use Actix so i learned Rust so i thought to myself because well its first i felt its a bit immature to use actix web even though some companies are using Rust but we cant really say the full potential of Rust in a full scale app for example in Discord both Elixir and Rust are used meaning there is equal need for them but for Elixir so many companies use it from Whatsapp, Wechat, etc and this means something for Rust is not ready to go full scale we cant assume all this possibilities when it come Rust. So i decided to go the Erlang way after alot of Thinking so Do you think i made the right decision?Am 19 year programmer so i assume am not experienced as you so your answer or comment would really valuable to me

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Pros of MEAN
Pros of Phoenix Framework
  • 86
    Javascript
  • 62
    Easy
  • 58
    Nosql
  • 52
    Great community
  • 50
    Mongoose
  • 50
    Modularity
  • 48
    Open source
  • 37
    Organized
  • 32
    Simple
  • 31
    Boilerplate
  • 10
    AngularJs
  • 9
    CLI
  • 9
    It's simply awesome
  • 8
    Cutting edge tech
  • 7
    Passport
  • 6
    It's a great new exciting stack
  • 6
    Yeoman
  • 6
    Docs
  • 5
    Friendly & Fun
  • 4
    Great Flexibility ;)
  • 4
    The WordPress of javascript apps
  • 3
    Genius
  • 2
    Modular
  • 2
    Scalable
  • 2
    JavaScript only
  • 1
    Growing Community
  • 1
    It's fun and has great potential
  • 1
    Gulp
  • 1
    Because i can write everything using javascript
  • 1
    Fast
  • 0
    The best
  • 120
    High performance
  • 76
    Super fast
  • 70
    Rapid development
  • 62
    Open source
  • 60
    Erlang VM
  • 46
    Well designed
  • 45
    Channels
  • 39
    Easily Scalable
  • 35
    Very extensible
  • 35
    Restful
  • 11
    Functional Programming
  • 10
    Inspired by Rails
  • 10
    Great community
  • 8
    Beautiful code
  • 8
    Ecto
  • 6
    Scalable
  • 6
    Fault tolerant
  • 5
    LiveView feature
  • 4
    Elegant
  • 4
    Insanely fast and easy
  • 4
    Feels like working with rails framework with more power
  • 3
    Built-in websocket support
  • 3
    Benevolent dictator that decides project course
  • 3
    Great integration with GraphQL
  • 2
  • 2
    Front-End Agnostic
  • 1
    Functional approach

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Cons of MEAN
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    • 6
      No jobs
    • 5
      Very difficult

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    What is MEAN?

    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.

    What is Phoenix Framework?

    Phoenix is a framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems. Written in Elixir, you get beautiful syntax, productive tooling and a fast runtime.

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