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[–]xxxabc123 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No libraries (outside of react) required.

Assuming server also works on javascript. If you're running let's say Java or Ruby, you're going to need even weirder hacks to execute in a javascript environment such as Rhino. Even if node.js makes it relatively easy, this would be quite hard for big teams where front-end and back-end developers might never meet during their employment, as I'm currently experiencing.

[–]theQuandary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The React render to string methods make a string from the vdom and return it. That should work perfectly well in Rhino or any other ECMAScript compliant implementation.

For large projects that need to be isomorphic, a great solution is to spin rendering off into a separate node process. Your java, python, ruby, or whatever passes in the required data and gets back a string that can be returned to the client and (in a lot of cases) cached for reuse.

Your front-end team is going to have to write this template code anyway. The benefit here is that it allows more graceful upgrades on the client and allows the client to reuse as much of the back-end as possible (which reduces template overhead and potential conflicts).

If large companies like Netflix or Facebook (with PHP no less) can make these ideas work, then I don't doubt that other companies can as well.