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What is MEAN on Ubuntu?

Posted on December 20, 2013

One of the applications listed is MEAN on Ubuntu. What is MEAN? It’s something I’ve not heard of and it’s tough to find anything on Google since mean is such a common word.

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THIS is MEAN! It is a replacement for your LAMP Stack ;)

I just tried the application… it seems to be very faulty… it’s not ready, upon Droplet-build… and there’s no tutorial on here… so, because I have no idea how far the implementation of MEAN was done on the pre-fab, I have no idea how to fix it so it can work… I already had to install grunt, and now it’s saying there’s no Gruntfile… I’m new to MEAN, and I can’t handle this confusion… I’ll have to re-build the Droplet as a standard Ubuntu 14.04, then install MEAN manually…

It’s an application stack based on NodeJS and MongoDB. You can read more about it here: <a href=“http://mean.io/”>http://mean.io/</a>.

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