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Author Jonathan Creamer

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Jonathan is a Senior Front End Developer at Lonely Planet. JavaScript is his main passion, particularly architecting front applications, and working with Node.js. He also has full stack experience in ASP.NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, and ColdFusion. He got started with web development at age 13 in a startup in Franklin, TN, and went on to study Computer Engineering/Science at MTSU. He currently lives there with his wife and daughter.

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React To The Future With Isomorphic Apps

Recently, with the creation of modern web frameworks such as AngularJS and Ember, we’ve seen a push to render on the client and only use a server for an API. We’re now seeing a possible return or, rather, more of a combination of both architectures happening. Web architecture definitely goes through cycles. We started out rendering everything on the server and shipping it down to the client. Then, JavaScript came along, and we started using it for simple page interactions. At some point, JavaScript grew up and we realized it could be used to build large applications that render all on the client and that use the server to retrieve data through an API. Read more…