TL;DR (I work for Tigris, an open source serverless NoSQL DB and Search platform) I was surprised to see that, although MERN isn't as popular as it once was, there's still a lot of people using it and also a lot of new courses being published about building apps with MERN. So, I've created what I'm (admittedly not-too-creatively) calling the TERN stack: Tigris Database (DB), Express.js (web server/API), React (front-end), Node.js server runtime (and dev tooling). The post is what I hope to be an educational resource to help people get started and be productive with these technologies (TERN) as well as migrating from the MERN stack (which is simply swapping MongoDB for Tigris in a one or two step process).