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This wiki documents an opinionated process on how to build a web application, a type of a Software as a Service (SaaS) application, based on twelve-factor app principles, on the MERN stack (mongo, express, react, node), using an agile process and a variety of tools for development and devops purposes. The process is easily transferrable to any other technology stack.

The process includes:

• Agile Project Management of a SaaS
• How to handle the codebase and the GitFlow process
• How the different environments should be setup
• Appropriate structure of the technology stack
• Developer setup, tools and processes
• How to appropriately test a SaaS
• Containerisation and cloud deployment
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
• Setting up state-of-practice security measures for a SaaS application
• What are some alternatives with respect to different processes and technologies

In this guide we will follow and instantiate best practices for building a SaaS. Some of them are describe in:

• The twelve factor app
• A successful git branching model
• create-react-app user guide