Really enjoyed your review. Thanks for sharing.

Great post. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Thanks for the reply, Mark. To further clarify, the database itself is cloud-hosted. What the database server does is access that data then returns to the API server. For example, for a simple blogging system (JS), with a normal monolith, one might do: router. get ( '/posts' , (req, res) => { // get user from DB const user = db.users.find(req.token.id); // get posts from DB const posts = db.posts.find(user.id); res.json(posts); }); for a database-server - api-server pair: DB server function getUserWithID ( id ) { return db.users.find(id); } function getPostsWithUserID ( userID ) { return db.posts.find(userID); } API server router.get( '/posts' , (req, res) => { const user = getUserWithID(req.token.id); const posts = getPostsWithUserID(user.id); res.json(posts); }); This way only the DB server has direct access to the DB, while the API server can only access the DB through pre-defined functions. So, an attacker on the API server cannot, for example, drop all posts. Do you see any advantages/limitations to doing this?

Thank you very much for your response.

Definitely JWT Authentication with Redux. In fact, I needed it for a project I'm working on right now and I ended up having to ditch the mern-starter package for writing my own.

Hi there, I'm Chidi. I love software programming. I work mainly in Python and Javascript - I'm stoked about the MERN stack. I'm a few weeks from my college graduation. I studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering. And I'm searching for internship and full-time opportunities in software development! It's great to be here learning from everyone! Thank you.

Thank you. I found the README references to the mern-starter variants, but I couldn't find them either. Seems like that was only a suggestion, I doubt they exist. I already set out to write my own. Thanks again.

The authentication especially...

Hello Sandeep, Have these features been implemented yet?