How To Develop and Build MERN Stack

A step by step guide with an example project

There are so many ways we can build React apps and ship them for production. One way is to build the React app with NodeJS and MongoDB as a database. There are four things that make this stack popular and you can write everything in Javascript. The four things are MongoDB, React, Express, and NodeJS. This stack can be used for a lot of use cases in web development.

The entire frontend is written in React and we are using MongoDB as a document database. The express and NodeJS are used for the middle layer. In this post, we will see the details and implementation of the MERN Stack. We will go through step by step with an example project.

As we said earlier, MERN Stack uses four technologies such as MongoDB, Express, React, and NodeJS. React is a javascript library for building web apps and it doesn’t load itself in the browser. We need some kind of mechanism that loads the index.html (single page) of React application with all the dependencies(CSS and js files) in the browser. In this case, we are using node as the webserver which loads React assets and accepts any API calls from the React UI app.

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