Comment by Steven Ventimiglia on "Can/should I use only node with mongo to create simple sites/blogs or should I directly get into building stuff with the MERN stack?"

CommentCan/should I use only node with mongo to create simple sites/blogs or should I directly get into building stuff with the MERN stack?

Steven Ventimiglia

Creative Technologist & Sr. Front-End Developer

Dec 15, 2017

MongoDb, Express, and Node.js are also known as the MEN Stack. I've found it to be more interesting and workable than I originally thought, however, as soon as discussions move to a JS framework - I will never recommend one.

Don't feel obligated to use a framework for anything you don't need it for. Frameworks are unnecessary 'dictators' that breed lazy developers and prevents them from fully understanding the code it's based on.

Also, look into Vue.js. Anyone I know who has left either AngularJS, Angular or React, quickly adopt Vue.js and seem to recommend it since it's "friendlier".

Martin Conde

Trying to wrap my around all the new ways of doing stuff

Dec 16, 2017

Thank you, so nice to see that MEN is actually thing even though most tutorials don't even mention the possibility :) Will definitely look into Vue!

Just a while back, I started to step outside of the jQuery bubble, refining my skill set a bit, creating, "A default Express repo (using EJS/SCSS/MongoDB), configured with custom directories for personal projects."

It's the result of a few workshops I took and I use it as the template to experiment with things such as passport services, apis, etc. ;)

github.com/stevenventimiglia/Express

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