Helpful MEAN Stack Tutorials
September 9, 2026 · StackPilots
Karma is deprecated and the Angular CLI now scaffolds Vitest. A full migration path: swapping the unit-test builder, converting Jasmine spies and clocks, stubbing jsdom-missing globals, testing signals and HttpTestingController, and getting coverage back in CI.
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Expose your existing MongoDB data to Claude, Cursor and your own agents with a Model Context Protocol server mounted on Express 5 — Zod-typed tools, tenant scoping that the model cannot override, Streamable HTTP sessions, OAuth 2.1 and guarded writes.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2026 · StackPilots
A production container setup for a MEAN app: slim multi-stage Dockerfiles for Express 5 and Angular 22, split liveness/readiness probes, SIGTERM draining, a Compose replica set, and a GitHub Actions build-and-publish pipeline.
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Exports, emails and imports do not belong in a request handler. Move them to a BullMQ worker: queues and typed jobs, retries with backoff, idempotency, repeatable schedules, graceful shutdown on Node 24, and an Angular 22 job-status view.
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A step-by-step guide to putting Angular SSR in front of your existing Express 5 API: adding SSR to an existing app, sharing one Node process, transferring API state so the browser does not refetch, and switching on incremental hydration for the heavy parts of the page.
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