Jos de Jong

tl;dr In order to ease full stack JavaScript development, we need to take away the hurdles keeping these worlds separated. We need unified, isomorphic solutions for common functionality like module loading, networking, background processes, logging, and others. Ever had to use statements like the following? if (typeof window !== 'undefined') { // browser } else { // node.js } It’s a simple check to see whether a script is being executed in in a browser, and if not, assume that it’s a node.js process. I noticed that I need them more and more. I mostly develop libraries. As soon as I need functionality which is not standard available in both browser and node.js, like fetching urls, I have to create two different implementations and switch depending on the environment. It’s annoying and I don’t yet have a seamless solution for dealing with environment specific code.