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Discussion on: MERN, MEAN OR FERN stack?

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Seanmclem • Edited

I've never heard of Fern before, but I personally don't like the limitations that I faced when using firestore instead of Mongo. If you already have node and express then why not Mongo? You can host a free instance of Mongo in the cloud using Mongo Atlas. Connecting to it in Node was relatively simple and types of queries that you can do are much more elaborate and advanced than firestore can do, or just as basic if that's all you need. That being said, I still use Firebase for hosting, users, sometimes file storage. Nothing wrong with it. Just fire store is kind of limited for me.

Really the stack that you use depends on your needs and skill sets. So whatever suits the situation best