From the course: MERN Essential Training (2020)
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Introduction to MERN
- [Instructor] If you've never heard the term MERN before and aren't familiar with what it is, this video is for you. Otherwise, feel free to skip it. MERN stands for Mongo Express React and Node. It's a full stack approach to building your front-end and back-end with these tools and being able to build a full application end-to-end. Mongo is the database, a document-based non-SQL database, that works well with JavaScript-based applications. A MongoDB database is one big object containing collections. Each collection could be like a contextual item, like for example, players for the database we'll create. Then inside the collection we have documents, which are the players themselves. So one player would be in a document, another on the second document, et cetera and then inside each document we have the data for each player, such as name, team, contact information, et cetera. The document looks like a JSON object…
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