Great timing. I was just going through the referenced "Tutorial: Handcrafting an Isomorphic Redux Application (With Love)", having gone through the React tutorial the day before. When I first saw your article, I thought it was nothing more than a rehashed version of the "With Love" one. But as I got to the end of "With Love" I wondered:
# "With Love" uses an external API server; how would I handle API requests on the same server?
# There's no real demonstration of how to do routing beyond a single route.
# "With Love" is unfinished, with no live updates etc.
# How to integrate even simplistic file-based persistence?
The Facebook tutorial had all that, but I wasn't sure how to integrate those features into a server-side-rendered framework. So essentially my next step would have been to figure out how to do what you just did here. The extra work of making the application functional (beyond just showing the pre-rendered screen) is icing on the cake.
# "With Love" uses an external API server; how would I handle API requests on the same server?
# There's no real demonstration of how to do routing beyond a single route.
# "With Love" is unfinished, with no live updates etc.
# How to integrate even simplistic file-based persistence?
The Facebook tutorial had all that, but I wasn't sure how to integrate those features into a server-side-rendered framework. So essentially my next step would have been to figure out how to do what you just did here. The extra work of making the application functional (beyond just showing the pre-rendered screen) is icing on the cake.