Discussion on "Introducing MERN : The easiest way to build Isomorphic apps"

Prashant Abhishek · 2016-02-18T07:20:21.000Z

One of the key advantages of using React is that we can render the apps on both client and server. However, building such apps is more complicated than it should be and tons of articles have raised the frustration among beginner developers. There are...

@prank and @sosana Here you go, I have create tag on StackOverflow, MERN and MERN-Stack.

Awesome. Thanks @vaibhavmule. Would be great if you can edit it.

@prank I do not edit privilege of tags but my edits are in peer review, hope to get accepted.

obviously here we can ask questions on hash-node, forgot about that but good to have community of stack overflow :)

This is really sweet! How does it compare to using a Yeoman generator? What are the advantages/disadvantages?

Cool stuff, good dependencies picked :D

The only thing I don't like is to have mern-cli installed globally. So I did git init and git pull ... manually and filed an issue about unforced global installations.

Hi, Which versions of node are supported ?

Only versions above 4.0 are supported!

I've just installed in Windows then realized that, MERN does not support it :(

It does. Check if your MongoDB is running, you need to have mongo running for this to work.

curious about road map and ways to contribute!

@sosana thanks for being curious about contributing. I just added roadmap in repo README. Feel free to send PR. 👍

@prank7 have you setup stack overflow for mern tag yet? also should we ask questions by opening issues on github until than?

Happy For you Bro, really Proud. Keep it up.!!!

Thanks @vaibhavmule. Your support matters! 🙌

That's super awesome! Can't wait to try it out! Thank you for the great work!

Glad that you liked it! Send us feedbacks/PRs once you try it out. :)

The git repository is currently no. 4 on today's most trending repositories! Great job guys!

Congratulations for this great project! I am planning using a similar stack Express, React, Redux just as front end hitting an API, I mean, no MongoDB. Can I do it with MERN?

You can replace MongoDB with any database you want!

Why did you choose Express over HAPI? HAPI has a graceful-shutdown built-in, routes validation, logging...

Sure, HAPI has all the greater goods with it, but we wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Express is minimal and is very beginner friendly.

However if you play with it and replace Express with HAPI. Show us on Hashnode, we would love to try it out! :)

@pierrebaz, @camerow just heard you: hashnode.com/post/i-loved-the-idea-of-mern-and-th…

Fantastic :) Great work!

That's an awesome initiative. :)

We are glad to be able to help devs! :)

Looking great, can't wait to learn Redux so I can really get into stuff like this

Sure @ice32. There is a nice tutorial here. You should also follow Redux here.

Thanks, I'll check it out

Hashnode build witch MERN ?

Yes. Hashnode is on MERN stack.

You could check its structure by React dev tool :lol:

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Introducing MERN : The easiest way to build Isomorphic apps

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