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> In every software company the people who are the most influential, and the best paid, are in management or sales. I don't think that's necessarily true in Silicon Valley, where c…

> Here's the litmus test. Ask the Reactive Native team to port their non-trivial paper app or mission critical messenger app or main app to Reactive Native. Facebook is rewriting t…

s/AirBnb/Airbnb/

We've called ourselves "nerds" since the very early days, at least 5 years.

See Brian's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254986 Airbnb does leave an automated review about the cancellation and dings the host's listing in search results.

Why couldn't you use a CDN for the JS files? We most certainly do.

There are already two problems, if you're building a rich client-side web app. Have you done this? If so, you would understand the problem.

I like "multiplatform" -- current winner :)

There are a few options. Easiest is to just render HTML strings on the server, not actual DOM. But, you can also use a DOM implementation if you want to, like jsdom or PhantomJS, a…

(author here) Good point. TBH, I have no idea what "isomorphic" means in the mathematical sense. I was inspired to use "isomorphic" from a 2011 article by Nodejitsu [1]. It seemed …

(author here) We just bootstrap some JSON onto the page to transfer application state to the client. It's the same approach as the `express-state` (mentioned in a below comment). S…

The approach you mention is much easier. However, it does make for slower perceived page load times, even when serializing JSON on the page, because the browser has to fetch, parse…

Correct. If you're already writing a bunch of JavaScript for the client-side, then just think about this approach as migrating some of that client, UI logic to the server.

(author) Cool! What's the JavaScript runtime on the server? Something JVM-based?

(OP here) Probably your best bet is to create a small Node web service that takes a template name and data and returns HTML. Then your (Rails, Python, PHP) app can call out to that…

That is just amazing. Keep it up.

Yep.

At the time of the previous post, Rendr was not yet open-sourced.

We're using Rendr in a few more apps in production, in progress. It's starting to eat away at our Rails site a bit.

https://www.airbnb.com/jobs :)

The app template is such an example, consuming the public GitHub API: https://github.com/airbnb/rendr-app-template In the future, we'd like to come up with some more in-depth tutor…

Yep! Because links use full URLs which get intercepted by JavaScript, if JS is disabled, you can still navigate around the app, getting full HTML from the server. Of course, any cl…

SEO was our first concern, but then we realized performance was the big win. Serving the user a full page of HTML rather than waiting for JS to download before rendering HTML makes…

This is exactly right. We still have 5 years worth of business logic in Rails, so we just expose a RESTful API as part of the Rails app. The same API is consumed by our iOS, Androi…

Thanks, fixed.