It's not uncommon to hear the cursing of "JavaScript" for making websites inexplicably slow to load, buggy, taxing on system resources and delivering an degraded overall user-experience. The sad irony of these complaints is that many applications adopted JavaScript-heavy "fat client" architectures in order to take advantage of their expanded opportunities to improve the user-experience.

The fact that many modern applications are failing to deliver on this is not particularly surprising – front-end development is a deceptively tricky problem space, in no small part thanks to the additional internal & external state that needs to be managed. Front-end developers desperately need to step up their game if end-users & customers regularly feel they would be receiving a better and faster experience if all the front-end development was simply disabled.

By combining the best of client-side rendering with the best of server-side rendering, React and Universal JavaScript can help overcome many of the complexities of assembling client-side applications, while helping to deliver an optimal & streamlined end-user experience. Find out how in the upcoming Need to Node: React.js and Universal JavaScript Applications webinar Wednesday, December 16th at 3pm PT.
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Tim Oxley, is an Australian Node.js and front-end developer currently living in Singapore. A very active member of the Open Source community, he has a passion for teaching JavaScript and Node.js. He organizes the popular CampJS community conference in Australia and the SingaporeJS meet up group.