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MEAN vs Ratpack: What are the differences?

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.

What is Ratpack? A toolkit for web applications on the JVM. It is a set of Java libraries for building scalable HTTP applications It is a lean and powerful foundation. Its apps are lightweight, fast, composable with other tools and libraries, easy to test and enjoyable to develop..

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

MEAN and Ratpack are both open source tools. It seems that MEAN with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.58K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Ratpack with 1.81K GitHub stars and 366 GitHub forks.

Vungle, Adsia, and rspective are some of the popular companies that use MEAN, whereas Ratpack is used by Tradier, azampar, and Deutsche Bahn. MEAN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 55 company stacks & 245 developers stacks; compared to Ratpack, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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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
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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 Ratpack?

It is a set of Java libraries for building scalable HTTP applications. It is a lean and powerful foundation. Its apps are lightweight, fast, composable with other tools and libraries, easy to test and enjoyable to develop.

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Jobs that mention MEAN and Ratpack as a desired skillset

Staff iOS Software Engineer, Performance Ad Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Software Engineer, Backend

Mexico City, MX; , MX

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Staff Android Software Engineer, Mid Funnel Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Android Software Engineer, Mid Funnel Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Intelligence

San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

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IT Project & Program Manager I

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Financial Analyst II, Technology Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA, US; , CA, US

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Software Quality Engineer in Test

Mexico City, MX; , MX

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What are some alternatives to MEAN and Ratpack?

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Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

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