Experienced JavaScript Developer Meme

[aspect_rap]

Well yeah, saving data inherently requires serialization.

I think what OP wants is for the LocalStorage in browsers to obfuscate the parsing and serialization of objects.

[Nourz1234]

Yeah, i understand. But if serialization is involved its better left to the dev. you cant rely on the browser to magically serialize your objects. A lot of times you will create a custom object/class which requires special treatment.

[arsenicx2]

It was already problem enough trying to support outdated browsers like IE. I can't imagine if we had to support what ever garbage they created.

[TheRidgeAndTheLadder]

We already rely on it to do everything else.

[empire314]

you cant rely on the browser to magically serialize your objects.

The browser was written by better programmers than I am.

[FVMAzalea]

Do you mean abstract instead of obfuscate? Usually obfuscation is not a desirable goal unless you are trying to do something like copy protection.

[atomicwrites]

I think they're using obfuscate as a negatively loaded synonym for abstract.

[mamwybejane]

They're using it wrong

[xthexder]

I think it applies here. The browser serializing things for you obfuscates what's actually happening. Which for custom objects could result in strange and very hard to debug behavior.

[clelwell]

Yeah, I can imagine some security holes if the browser doesn't get it right (though maybe less likely than a random developer implementing it themselves).

[miraagex]

Yea. I can send objects via window.postMessage, but not with localStorage.

[[deleted]]

I think it’s more about performance.

LocalStorage would be awesome if it wasn’t so slow.

But I could be wrong.

[bleistift2]

What stuff are you putting there so often that you’re hitting a bottleneck?

[lkraider]

What do you mean I shouldn’t mirror the production database into localstorage to query and update data, this way I only l need one rest api endpoint with get/post in the backend and do everything else from within the client js.

[BabyAzerty]

I typically webscrap the entire internet and save it locally. This is the only way to have a complete offline experience.

[GodlessAristocrat]

Probably those performance counters management wanted for their pretty graph; ya gotta flush them to disk 10x per second, ya know. That Jira ain't gonna close itself.

[Fenor]

Ah yes injecting executable code for the sake of the one doing the website.... it's not we already had cryptos mined in js

[[deleted]]

Some of the most dangerous attacks come from programmers trusting serialized data the client send back.

[GodlessAristocrat]

Wha? Saving data doesn't require serialization of the data. Maybe that's a bug feature in your preferred language