On a MEAN stack environment, our ecosystem is infinitely diverse, and we can find excellent alternatives to start the construction of our API. At hand, we have simple boilerplates to complex code generators that can be used with other tools in an integrated way, or even alone.

Boilerplates are usually a group of tested code that provides the basic structure to the main goal, that is to create a foundation of a web project. Besides saving us from common tasks such as assembling the basic structure of the code and organizing the files, boilerplates already have a number of scripts to make life easier for the frontend.

Let's describe some alternatives that we consider as good starting points for the development of APIs with the Express framework, MongoDB database, Node server, and AngularJS for the frontend.

Some more accentuated knowledge of JavaScript might be necessary for the complete understanding of the concepts covered here; so we will try to make them as clearly...