Assemble the complete stack required to build a modern web app using MongoDB Express React
and Node. This book also covers many other complementary tools: React Router GraphQL
React-Bootstrap Babel and Webpack. This new edition will use the latest version of React
(React 16) and the latest React Router (React Router 4) which has a significantly different
approach to routing compared to React Router 2 which was used in the first edition of the book.
Though the primary focus of Pro MERN Stack is to equip you with all that is required to build a
full-fledged web application a large portion of the book will be devoted to React 16. The
popular MEAN (MongoDB Express AngularJS Node) stack introduced Single Page Apps (SPAs) and
front-end Model-View-Controller (MVC) as new and efficient paradigms. Facebook's React is a
technology that competes indirectly with AngularJS. It is not a full-fledged MVC framework. It
is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces (in some sense the View part). Yet it is
possible to build a web app by replacing AngularJS with React - hence the term MERN stack What
You Will Learn Discover the features of React 16 to get the maximum out of this library Gain
the basics of MongoDB Express and Node to build a web app Work with other libraries
complementary to React including React-Bootstrap React Router and GraphQL Use tools such as
Babel and Webpack required to build JavaScript-based SPAs Tie all the components together to
build a complete web app. Who This Book Is For Developers and architects who have prior
experience in any web app stack other than the MERN stack will find the book useful to learn
about this modern stack. Prior knowledge of JavaScript HTML and CSS is required.
