Parse will be fully retired after a year-long period ending on January 28, 2017. The data can be migrated to any MongoDB database, and the parse server is now open source.
Originally applied to mathematics, the term “isomorphic” was first popularized in relation to Javascript development by Spike Brehm of Airbnb. Since the beginning, many developers have objected to the usage, and it’s been in the newscycle recently as the competing buzzword “universal Javascript” has emerged as an alternative to “isomorphic Javascript”.
I love that my code can run anywhere for anyone. Indeed that's the challenge. The web is a hugely diverse environment anyone can view anything anyway they want.
There have been many different blog posts on the "State of the Web", problems people face around tooling, and similar-style musings of late. Rather than yet another rant about the state of web development, this piece aims to pour some thought into what we can do to fix the situation we find ourselves in.