What Is Isomorphic React

1. What Is Isomorphic React
2. Advantages of Isomorphic React
3. Disadvantages of Isomorphic React

We will introduce isomorphic react, an isomorphic process, and the advantages and disadvantages of isomorphism.

What Is Isomorphic React

An isomorphic application is the one whose code can run both in the server and the client. When a user requests a web page, the server handles the first request while the client processes subsequent requests.

React is an Isomorphic framework, which supports isomorphism out of the box.

Advantages of Isomorphic React

There are two types of advantages of isomorphism. In the functional aspect, the advantages are as follows.

• The code is shared between the front-end and backend of the application.
• Isomorphic process loads web pages and applications way faster.
• It also provides support for the legacy browser.

On the other hand, if we look at the technical aspect of the isomorphic process,

• The server renders the HTML on the initial page load.
• Less code will be required to write and maintain.
• We, as a developer, have to learn a few languages to use the isomorphic process.
• Another benefit of the isomorphic process is that the data is stored in JSON format.
• The library can integrate with itself.

Disadvantages of Isomorphic React

With a lot of benefits, there always comes a few disadvantages. The disadvantages of using isomorphic process include:

• The complex architecture of the whole application makes troubleshooting very challenging.
• Sensitive data can be exposed on the server.