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Can someone explain to me what "isomorphic" means in the tagline for the linked Director library[1]? I have no idea how isomorphism is supposed to play into all of this?

[1] "a tiny and isomorphic URL router for JavaScript http://github.com/flatiron/director"

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It means that it can be used on client and server. Its a term coined by (I believe) the nodejitsu people in this article [0]. Airbnb also used the term to describe their rendr library [1] which aims to allow exactly that: rendering on both client and server

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

[1] http://nerds.airbnb.com/isomorphic-javascript-future-web-app...

http://superfluous.io/glossary/read/007_isomorphic_javascrip...

While I like the idea man do I her hate that term. You can't just be isomorphic: you must be isomorphic to or with respect to aomething.

It's like McDonald's named their new hamburger the RESTful Patty.

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