React.js server and client side rendering with Go

This experiment is based on otto, a Javascript interpreter for Go. The goal for the experiment was to explore if reactjs server side rendering could be done with Go and to use the same code in the browser. It seems to work fine if you can cache server side rendering results and use them. Otherwise it's just too slow.

As a http server echo is used.

In rss.go we are fetching a rss feed (scheduled in main.go). Scheduling also renders the results and saves them in a global variable to be used later.

By no means this is a production ready set up, css and javascripts are not combined and minified. Also, if you want users to have sessions, caching rendered pages beforehand is problematic at least.

You can test it here: isomorphic.uutispuro.fi

To run:

go build && ./go-isomorphic-react

To benchmark serverside rendering:

go test -bench=.

The result on my MacBook Air (1.4 GHz i5):

PASS
BenchmarkRender1               1        4041006374 ns/op
ok      github.com/jelinden/go-isomorphic-react 4.059s