JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

Isomorphic apps are almost like “normal” apps when creating them with the FRP. Because the FRP encourages you to always pass the entire state object to the rendering function, nothing prevents you to do the same in the backend as well.

If you have read other tutorials you may already know that React has a “backend-compatible” function called renderToString. It behaves exactly like render but doesn’t call componentDidMount and returns the rendered HTML as a string instead of placing it into a DOM node. Component & model in → HTML out. Couldn’t be simpler?

Well… actually, it could be. There are two gotchas you should know before trying to use renderToString:

1. Your backend must understand JSX syntax
2. Your front-end modules must be CommonJS compatible

Find out why isomorphic apps might just give us the best of both worlds: using JavaScript in both places, and delivering to the user a good experience by sending down something they can see quickly and then building on that with client-side JavaScript.

Today we are going to build an application in React using Isomorphic Javascript.

React is amazing on the client side, but it’s ability to be rendered on the server side makes it truly special. This is because React uses a virtual DOM instead of the real one, and allows us to render our components to markup.

Taunus focuses on delivering a progressively enhanced experience to the end-user, while providing a reasonable development experience as well. Taunus prioritizes content. It uses server-side rendering to get content to your humans as fast as possible, and it uses client-side rendering to improve their experience.

While it focuses on progressive enhancement, usability and performance are both core concerns for Taunus. Incidentally, focusing on progressive enhancement also improves both of these. Usability is improved because the experience is gradually improved, meaning that if somewhere along the line a feature is missing, the component is still expected to work.

Isomorphic JavaScript Resources: Libraries, Frameworks, Tutorials, Techniques, and more.

One of the many benefits of React is its ability to render components on both client and server. This tutorial aims to teach you how to create isomorphic apps using React and Flux architecture. We will also create a simple blogging app to understand how exactly Flux and React fit together.

Isomorphic means that it's designed to run a lot of the same code on both the client and the server. Typically that includes a lot of rendering and domain logic. (Not to be confused with isomorphisms from category theory / functional programming. That's a totally different thing.)

There are many advantages to building apps this way, but the primary advantages are:

• Cross-functional teams. Since everything is written in JavaScript, it's easier to build teams who know how to work on both the client and server sides of the app.
• Write once, run everywhere. With the exception of a few library substitutions and browser polyfills, the code is shared, which means you have to write about half the code you'd write working on a non-isomorphic app.
• More productive developers. Since the app is more consistent across the stack, there's no context switching when you need to maintain application behavior on both sides of the stack. Write the behavior once, and you're done. Context switching slows developers down significantly.

A library providing an abstraction for React components that allows for fast top-down rendering embracing immutable data for js.

Do fast top-down rendering embracing immutable data. With cursors into immutable data structures, components can easily swap their own piece of data inside the larger immutable data structure only to render components that actually have changed their data layer.

A client-server web framework built on Node.js that allows front-end developers to easily create a 100% SEO compliant, component MVC structured web application with an optimized first page load.

he combination of client and server rendering is known as Isomorphic JavaScript. Isomorphic JavaScript is one of those fancy sounding computer science terms. Isomorphic means the application uses the same rendering engine on the client and the server, thus making it easier for developers to maintain markup templates.

Modern web application development is about building rich user experiences utilizing the new APIs and performance offered by today's modern browsers. Traditional web sites are rendered on the server, binding data with markup to produce a finished product. The finished product is shipped to the browser, which then renders the page as it loads CSS, images and any other asset designated in the markup and CSS.