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MEN stack for Python/Django developers

I've always advocated that as a developer, a programming language is just a tool and you should be able to choose the right tool for the right job. Sometimes the circumstances will choose the tool for you. Imagine that time where you need a flat head screw driver and instead used a knife.

For the past five years I've worked with Python and Django. This had the effect of me specializing in Python and being deeply involved in Django. But I've been lucky to be hired as a Software Engineer and I've been working with the MEN stack which includes MongoDB,ExpressJS and Node.js. Which are all new technologies so I've been learning alot.

This post is to help other developers with a similair background as mine to make the jump from Python to Node.js.

Environment

  • Installing node.js
  • npm how it's analogous to pip, don't need to virtualenv
  • requirements.txt ==> package.json
  • installing mongo / mongoose
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