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Vijay Thirugnanam
Inference Service @ Cerebras
I feel REM is a better name than MERN. REM = React, Express, Mongo. What do you think?
Ida Hansen
Front-end Designer
REM is a CSS Font unit - "Relative em".
Maxence Cornet
Indie hacker
MERN was probably named MERN because of MEAN stack, which is Mongo + Express + angular + node, and is/was pretty popular.
So the name makes sense for me !
Mean meant something. Mern does not.
Marcus
Full Stack Developer
But doesn't Express sit on top of Node? Or am I missing something.
Yes, it does. When we use express, we automatically imply node. Express does not work without Node. I was listening to REM - Losing my religion. Thought of asking :)
Ida Hansen
Front-end Designer
REM is a CSS Font unit - "Relative em".