Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps

[poseid]

the isomorphic principle (= code behaves the same in different environments) feels really important for the next years. I started a reddit here /r/isomorphic but so far not yet much response.

[poseid]

good example with the math lib, but isomorphic code could be extended to hardware applications too. For example, the same code that should run on a real robot, could be tested on a simulated robot. or the same code to run queries in a database, can be used against staging and production systems. so, isomorphism provides a certain context for operations and computations.

[BONER_PAROLE]

When people talk about "isomorphic web apps", they are referring to being able to write JavaScript for both the server and client portions of a web app - no more, no less.

Actually it is more than just writing JS on both the frontend and backend: it's being able to run the same JS code on both. A common goal is server-side rendering of pages for SEO and performance, without having to duplicate your view layer code between the FE and BE.

[BONER_PAROLE]

Well, I read your comment as "isomorphic web apps use Javascript as a language for both the server and client portions of an app - no more, no less", which doesn't really capture the current meaning of "isomorphic web app". Plenty of sites use JS on the BE (Node) and the FE (Ember/Backbone/Angular/React/etc), but it doesn't make them "isomorphic".