In my search for resources to sharpen my MEAN full-stack skills, I found this great book, “Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node” by Simon Holmes. Published in 2016 by Manning Publications, it is the most relevant and up-to-date resource I have found.
It goes beyond teaching you how to use each technology individually, but how they fit together in the whole stack. It goes over the benefits to each and the flexibility that building a solution out of multiple layers, yet unified by a common language, JavaScript, provides. It hammers home the point with a single example application used throughout. It even adds in valuable extras like sections on Git, Bootstrap, and Heroku, making the learning real-world. By the end I felt like I could walk into any MEAN situation and be productive from day one.