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Isomorphic does not mean code that runs on client and server. It has a very precise meaning in programming and a few ignorant folks didn't realize that.
by d4rkph1b3r 12y ago
Isomorphic does not mean code that runs on client and server. It has a very precise meaning in programming and a few ignorant folks didn't realize that.
- poseid 12y ago"does not mean... " -> what does "isomorphic" mean to you? that would help me. thanks!
- runT1ME 12y agoIsomorphic means there exists an 'isomorphism' or an invertible function between two things that aren't the same. So an Array and a List could be Isomorphic, but a Set and a List could not be. You could have (I think?) an isomorphism between XML and Javascript (minus CDATA), so it's not relegated to lightly structured types.
- ahazred8ta 12y agoI agree with you that it's a misuse of the word, but for some reason a bunch of javascript developers have adopted it in the sense of having a webapp suite that spans both a node.js server-side environment and a browser client-side environment, and being able to migrate code between the two parts of the app. Go figure. http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3009 http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3009