Maxime Najim
Maxime Najim is a software architect and a full stack web developer. He has worked for companies like Yahoo!, Apple, and Netflix, creating large, multi-tier, highly scalable and reliable web applications. He is currently a software architect focused on designing and implementing new systems and frameworks for the Walmart eCommerce platform team. Maxime is co-author of the upcoming O'Reilly Media book entitled "Building Isomorphic JavaScript Apps".
Renaming isomorphic JavaScript?
What you need to know to make an informed choice.
Abbott and Costello performing “Who’s on First?”
Abbott and Costello’s signature wordplay sketch “Who’s on First?” is one of the most renowned comedic routines of all time. Trying to describe the routine here will do it little justice, you’ll just have to watch it yourself. As funny as it may be, the sketch reveals a crucial fact: names are important. Good names should be self-explanatory, precise and reveal intent. Bad names leave people confused and aggravated and should be avoided at all cost. When we write code, we must always think about variable names, function names, file names, etc. But naming things is hard. Phil Karlton probably said it best: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
Since Node.js was first released in 2009, many developers have started discussing and implementing ways to share JavaScript code between the web application server and the browser. This sharing of JavaScript code allows for assembling web pages on either the client or server, with the benefits of faster initial page load times and improved search engine optimization. The name of this approach was coined by Charlie Robbins and later popularized by Spike Brehm as “isomorphic” JavaScript. Such applications are isomorphic in the sense that they take on equal (ἴσος: isos) form or shape (μορφή: morphe) regardless of which environment they are running on, be it the browser or the server.