STstriking·Mar 31, 2016Submission
Universal React Without a Node.js Back End
1 points · Open discussiontildedave
universal-react-without-node
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universal-react-without-node
Examples of Universal React without a Node.js Backend
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2Mentions
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Examples of Universal React without a Node.js Backend
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2 | 2016-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 3 | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 4 | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 5 | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 6 | 2016-03-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 7 | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 8 | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 9 | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 10 | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 11 | 2016-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 12 | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 13 | 2016-03-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 14 | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 15 | 2016-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 16 | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 17 | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 18 | 2016-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 19 | 2016-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 20 | 2016-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 21 | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 22 | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23 | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24 | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25 | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26 | 2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27 | 2016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28 | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 29 | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 30 | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31 | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sources>I saw questions about webcomponents/polymer pop up all the time for aurelia and other frameworks (how to integrate nicely), github uses components too, salesforce. It seems that here is it treated like something that doesn't exist.
I don't think it's only here (on HN) though. Check Reddit reactjs, polymer and webcomponents subreddits for example. The first has constant traffic everyday, the other have 1-2 recent posts, and get to month old posts on the first page.
Same for tutorials and blogs. Polymer/WebComponents related ones are few and far between, React ones are everywhere.
GitHub: polymer 14000 stars, react 37000 stars (and 4 times as many forks).
Regarding the "shadown-dom", yeah, you're right, meant to write "virtual-dom" (a much lightweight dom copy, with faster access and the ability to diff to avoid doing costly work to the re
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al DOM).
>This is cool and a nice selling point, I've been interested to do that multiple times but it appears that this is only possible if you build your app in node.js?
You can run it at any app server that can execute JS. So not just Node but also Meteor, and Java servers to (Java as of late comes with JS interpreter built in).
And you can also fork out from any other framework and do the rendering part in a JS interpreter, e.g. like this:
https://github.com/tildedave/universal-react-without-node
I'd say the most practical versions would be Node and Java though.