About the authors

SIMON HOLMES is the author of the first edition of Getting MEAN. He’s been a full-stack developer since 2000, as well as a solutions architect, trainer, team lead, and engineering manager. He also runs a training company, Full Stack Training Ltd. Simon has a wide range of experience from his past, and through his work mentoring and training, he understands where people struggle.

CLIVE HARBER has been programming computers since he was thirteen. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Wales, Swansea. Having written code in a number of programming languages and different paradigms over the years for the sports and betting industries, telecommunications, and health care and retail sectors, he’s now at a point where he feels he can be useful to the programming community as a whole.

Clive has helped out on a number of other Manning titles as both a reviewer and a technical reviewer, including Vue.js in Action, Testing Vue.js Applications, React in Action, Elixir in Action, 2nd ed., Mesos in Action, Usability Matters, Testing Microservices with Mountebank, Cross-Platform Desktop Applications, and Web Components in Action.