MERN Stack is a Javascript Stack that is used for easier and faster deployment of full-stack web applications. MERN Stack comprises of 4 technologies namely: MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js . It is designed to make the development process smoother and easier.

Each of these 4 powerful technologies provides an end-to-end framework for the developers to work in and each of these technologies play a big part in the development of web applications.

 

Getting Started

First, create a new project folder. Then go to the project folder in command prompt/terminal and type below command to initialize a package.json file. (Make sure npm is installed)

npm init

A normal package.json file looks like this: