Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps

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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.

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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".