Setting up MERN stack technologies

MERN stack technologies are being developed and upgraded as this book is being written, so for the work demonstrated throughout this book, we use the latest stable versions at the time of writing. Installation guidelines for most of these technologies are dependent on the system environment of your workspaces, so this section points to all relevant installation resources and also acts as a guide for setting up a fully functioning MERN stack.

MongoDB

MongoDB must be set up, running, and accessible to your development environment before any database features are added to MERN applications. At the time of writing, the current stable version of MongoDB is 4.2.0, and this version of the MongoDB...