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I am wondering how well the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node) would fit to build a community websites, intra and/or extranet

I know I can use things like Drupal, Liferay and so on but I am just trying to understand the proper use case for the MEAN stack.

Suppose that I have to build a new community website or portal from the ground up. Would the MEAN stack be a good fit or is the LAMP stack still better in such a use case?

I am looking to learn the MEAN stack and I had to idea to build a "fake" community website which has lots of features, ideal to learn a technology stack like that, however if the technology is not ideal for such a purpose than I have to look into something else.

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  • MEAN stack is perfect and complete solution for any web project. It even gives you some more advantages like websockets. IMHO its perfect. Commented Nov 17, 2014 at 10:23

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Why to use the MEAN stack:

  • One language for server, client, application model
  • Nodejs concurrent connections handling (permanent connection client-server)
  • Nodejs fits perfectly real-time applications
  • Nodejs performances take advantage from the Google V8 Engine
  • Nodejs asynchronous IO management guarantees more concurrent connections than other Web Server technologies (ex. Apache)
  • Horizontal scalability (more trafic => more nodes, mongodb sharding)

Where not to use nodejs:

  • High CPU usage operations because it's one threaded nature
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Thanks. So to answer by own question based upon your answer. The MEAN stack would fit a community portal because it's not high in CPU. Business logic can remain in the Angular modules (client side) and it can handle lots of connections. Am I correct?
Yes but don't forget scalability, performances, the fact that you'll use only one language.
A concern that I have with this stack is security. It seems that with Angular you have a lot of business logic running on the client, which to me, seems a bit risky. How secure is this? I mean, people could easily run their own JS code in the browser console to mess with my stuff. How big a risk is that?
There are tools developed to hide javascript code Client Side, google to find out the right for you.
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I have realised that learning JavaScript is a helpful before learning the MEAN stack and you need to be well at home with JavaScript. You proposed project is one that requires a good grasp of both client-side JavaScript and server-side JavaScript. Learning an effective way to control the quirks of JavaScript will also help. Know JavaScript before learning MEAN and you should be fine.

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JS is not an issue. I have been developing web applications for over 10 years. Mostly in java and PHP so because of that I already used a lot of JS. I'm not starting from scratch.
great. One of the features I mean is object oriented JavaScript and the techniques for implementing design patterns in JavaScript. You'll see all these a lot in the MEAN stack and they are not usually obvious if one has been writing only c/s JavaScript from other technologies - Java, PHP etc. One great way to learn the MEAN stack is really to drop all baggages from other technologies and learn the MEAN stack from scratch.

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