It's easier to say: code shared between client and the server
than isomorphic and have everyone understand you. Isomorphic means a lot of different things to different people. Say what you mean, and more people will be able to take part and understand :) On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:24 PM, 'Rupert Smith' via Elm Discuss <elm-discuss@googlegroups.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 1:55:08 PM UTC, Joel McCracken wrote: >>> >>> It was very, very nice. It allows for seemless APIs that simplified >>> the code sharing a whole bunch. >> >> >> Oh? My impression was that you thought this wasn't worth it, based upon >> comments here >> https://github.com/noredink/take-home#should-i-use-this-in-production and >> IIRC what I've read elsewhere. >> >> Incidentally, I also hate the term isomorphic for shared client-server >> code. > > > From the wikipedia page for isomorphism: > > "The interest of isomorphisms lies in the fact that two isomorphic objects > cannot be distinguished by using only the properties used to define > morphisms; thus isomorphic objects may be considered the same as long as one > considers only these properties and their consequences." > > Which sounds like a reasonable way to describe when the rendered page is > exactly the same, whether it is rendered client side or server side. As I > understand it though, it often means that some elements of the server side > rendering may be ommitted or only mocked up. Particularly interactive > elements that just won't work with a full server round trip, but will work > asm interactice UI components on the client side. > > Also, I think describing what I am trying to do with my editing mode as > 'progressive enhancement' isn't quite right either. I think the concept > behind progressive enhancement is that you start with you baseline client; > perhpas you even have to support some old version of IE, or users who will > not have javascript enabled in their browser. You code for that in the main, > but add capabilities that better browsers/environments can take advantage > of, if they are available. > > Not sure why you don't like isomorphism, has the word been poisened by too > may javascript libraries? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
