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I love having the server and client share the same codebase.

I'm working on a webapp that mimics functionality of an existing desktop application -- mostly as a self-educational project. As I'm writing it and adding features, I can push processing from server-side to client-side and vice versa with hardly more than a copy and paste of the relevant chunk of code.

Say I don't really care about the security of some particular process, and I really don't want to use up any additional resources on the server for it, I can just push that load to the client browser in a couple clicks.

Did I just write some feature into the client that I suddenly realize presents a security problem? With node, there's no need to change my frame of mind or rethink how to do something in a different language -- just copy and paste from client.js to server.js and do some slight cleanup.