Setup Environment Of course, the first thing to do is get NodeJS installed on your system. If you are a Windows or Mac user, you can visit nodejs.org and download the installer. If you instead prefer Linux, I'd suggest that you refer to this link . Although I won't go into further details on this, if you encounter any installation issues, I'm happy to help; just leave a comment below this post. Once you have NodeJS installed, you're ready to setup the needed instruments. ExpressJS - this will manage the server and the response to the user Jade - template engine Socket.io - allows for real time communication between the front-end and back-end Continuing on, within an empty directory, create a package.json file with the following content. { "name": "RealTimeWebChat", "version": "0.0.0", "description": "Real time web chat", "dependencies": { "socket.io...
MEAN Stack
The MEAN stack is MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS (or Angular), and Node.js. MEAN applications can be written in one language for both server-side and client-side execution environments.