[frontendbeauty]

Author here (spikebrehm):

Jeremy, I think you're mistaking this for Keith Norman's SpainJS presentation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn9c_yfuoM). He proposes the same approach, but I don't know if it ever got past a demo. Although it seems like they may be using some form of this at Groupon in production.

Anyway, it is exciting, isn't it? This is just the beginning for us -- we've had to make a few hacky design decisions to be able to ship, but I think we will get the kinks worked out. The trick, and the challenge, seems to lie in choosing the right set of abstractions to hide the code complexity from the application developer. I hope to open source it as soon as I can, to benefit from the input of luminaries such as yourself!

Oh yeah, and the offer to give a Tech Talk at Airbnb next time you're in SF still stands :)

[WickyNilliams]

Very interesting stuff :) Can't wait to hear more on this, as it seems like the panacea we've been slowly moving towards for some time.

How does the approach you've taken compare with the architecture outlined in nodejitsu's concept of isomorphic JS?

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/scaling-isomorphic-javascript-code

[jashkenas]

Oh my goodness. I totally am mistaking it for that presentation. It's the same general concept, and they also called it the "Holy Grail". Apologies for the confusion.

Y'all should get together and compare notes ;)