MEAN STACK
An archaic, inherently hostile architectural doctrine forged during the earliest, bloodiest skirmishes of the JavaScript Wars. It is the unholy alliance of a lawless, schema-free organic lifestyle and a punishing, bureaucratic frontend framework, glued together by the fragile, asynchronous suffering of Node middleware. To adopt this stack is to embrace a deeply literal interpretation of its acronym—a cruel, unforgiving environment where state is perpetually lost, queries go to die, and the developer's spirit is systematically crushed beneath a mountain of brittle, unstructured JSON objects.
▶ See also: REDIS REGRET