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What is MEAN? A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development. MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.

What is Mono? *Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework *. It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

MEAN and Mono belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

MEAN and Mono are both open source tools. It seems that MEAN with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.58K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Mono with 8.19K GitHub stars and 3.28K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, MEAN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 55 company stacks & 245 developers stacks; compared to Mono, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of MEAN

Pros of Mono

86
Javascript
62
Easy
58
Nosql
52
Great community
50
Mongoose
50
Modularity
48
Open source
37
Organized
32
Simple
31
Boilerplate
10
AngularJs
9
CLI
9
It's simply awesome
8
Cutting edge tech
7
Passport
6
It's a great new exciting stack
6
Yeoman
6
Docs
5
Friendly & Fun
4
Great Flexibility ;)
4
The WordPress of javascript apps
3
Genius
2
Modular
2
Scalable
2
JavaScript only
1
Growing Community
1
It's fun and has great potential
1
Gulp
1
Because i can write everything using javascript
1
Fast
0
The best

1
It was great, pre-dotnetcore

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What is MEAN?

MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.

What is Mono?

It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

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Jobs that mention MEAN and Mono as a desired skillset

Staff iOS Software Engineer, Performance Ad Formats

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Software Engineer, Backend

Mexico City, MX; , MX

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Staff Android Software Engineer, Mid Funnel Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Android Software Engineer, Mid Funnel Formats

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Intelligence

San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

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IT Project & Program Manager I

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Financial Analyst II, Technology Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA, US; , CA, US

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Software Quality Engineer in Test

Mexico City, MX; , MX

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What are some alternatives to MEAN and Mono?

Mode

Created by analysts, for analysts, Mode is a SQL-based analytics tool that connects directly to your database. Mode is designed to alleviate the bottlenecks in today's analytical workflow and drive collaboration around data projects.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

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