MEAN Stack: anyone ever used it?

[Verahta]

http://mean.io/#!/

Seems like all the stuff people talk about on here in one go?

[Jackolantern]

Pretty much haha

This is just a single package containing a very popular stack for SPAs (Single Page Applications) using AngularJS. All the pieces just fit together really well: Node.js because that makes the back-end work with JS as well, MongoDB which makes your data access use JS, AngularJS since it is by far and away the most popular SPA framework, and ExpressJS since you need a web framework for node and Express makes setting up RESTful web services dead simple (and Angular mostly communicates with the back-end through web services).

[kaos78414]

I've used that as a basis for starting some of my applications. The thing that sold me is their grunt set up - before using this I didn't really understand why anyone would use a task manager. Nowadays I wouldn't start an app without leveraging grunt or gulp (usually grunt in my case) to have auto-reloading with watch and live-reload, auto-minifying/building client side code, browserify and any other number of tools I might need. I like their jshint configuration too, makes sure my code adheres to a set of guidelines, which often results in more maintainable code.

EDIT: I should mention that the original author has moved on to this version: http://meanjs.org/
I don't remember exactly why, I think he gave the old version to a team he started to have disagreements with.