Tech Stack - acm-projects/Envoy GitHub Wiki

Tech Stack Components	Technologies
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Runtime environments
AWS Services
(optional) API platforms

MERN stands for MongoDB, Express, React, Node. The four key technologies that make up the stack.

• MongoDB - A document and JSON-oriented database.

  • What is MongoDB?
  • What is a Schemaless Database?
  • MongoDB Examples
  • Documentation
  • Stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents
    • Fields can vary from document to document and data structure can be changed over time.
    • JSON-style documents which can have varying sets of fields with different data types for each field
    • Key-value pairs
  • Distributed Database - high availability, horizontal scaling

• Express.js - Fast minimalist web framework for Node.js.

  • Express routing
    • Routing - how an application’s endpoints (URIs) respond to client requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
  • Express API Reference

• React.js - React components can be used on the client and server side.

• Node.js - Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

  • A JavaScript runtime environment.
  • Typically executing the JavaScript runtime in a server side fashion (not running node apps as the client).
  • Mostly used on the server-side
  • Designed to build scalable network applications

• S3 -
• Transcribe -
• Translate -
• Polly -

• Postman - An API platform for building and using APIs. (recommended)
• Insomnia - An API platform for building and using APIs.
• Create, share, test and document APIs.

• Mermaid - a js markdown tool used for creating diagrams and other charts.
  • Additional mermaid documentation - "Draw diagrams with Markdown" article