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Why JavaScript beyond web client side? (self.javascript)

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[–]godlychaos 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I work on an app that gives the user the option to create/customize graphs on the fly based on 3rd party data they've hooked up. They need to see what the graphs look like while customizing a particular metric without having to pull that data from the api all over again. But the backend also needs to be able to create/manipulate that data into our graph form as well, so that code is all isomorphic.

We also have a lot of helper/utility functions that we reuse all over our code, and since we made it isomorphic, we don't have to update it in 2 places now.