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MEAN vs webapp2: 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 webapp2? Lightweight Python web framework compatible with Google App Engine’s webapp. webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.
MEAN and webapp2 can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
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.
Pros of MEAN
- Javascript86
- Easy62
- Nosql58
- Great community52
- Mongoose50
- Modularity50
- Open source48
- Organized37
- Simple32
- Boilerplate31
- AngularJs10
- CLI9
- It's simply awesome9
- Cutting edge tech8
- Passport7
- It's a great new exciting stack6
- Yeoman6
- Docs6
- Friendly & Fun5
- Great Flexibility ;)4
- The WordPress of javascript apps4
- Genius3
- Modular2
- Scalable2
- JavaScript only2
- Growing Community1
- It's fun and has great potential1
- Gulp1
- Because i can write everything using javascript1
- Fast1
- The best0