Morpheus – Isomorphic web publishing platform, built with React and Flux

Re:Morpheus – Isomorphic web publishing platform, built with... by isomorphic on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:19PM (#8924979)

To be pedantic, when I picked my handle back in the /. days, I thought it meant "a bijective homomorphism." Or, less opaquely, an invertible structure-preserving map (in the context of abstract algebra).

When I read about "isomorphic JavaScript" as, essentially, views rendered with the same code on the client or server (and yet a separate API), I can't help but think "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Perhaps "symmetric JavaScript" would be better? But then the API is still an asymmetry...

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Re:Morpheus – Isomorphic web publishing platform, built with... by thirdtruck on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:01PM (#8925304)

Agreed. The software doesn't strike me as really symmetrical or isomorphic. Perhaps a whole different metaphor is in order, assuming the idea is even concrete enough to warrant a short label in the first place. Not all labels need to be (or can be) reduced to a single word.

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