Web Rush

Episode 216: JavaScript Proxies with Evyatar Alush

Episode Summary

Evyatar Alush talks about what JavaScript proxies are, why a developer might use them, how proxies are delivered, where JavaScript proxies are being used, and when a developer should use proxies in their codebase?

Episode Notes

Recording date: 12-15-2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Evyatar Alush @evyataral

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• MDN: Proxy
• Caniuse
• Proxy Traps Tutorial
• GoogleChrome/proxy-polyfill (Sam Thorogood)
• Vest
• n4s (enforce)
• VueJS
• How Reactivity Works In Vue
• MobX
• Immer, Immutability and the Wonderful World of Proxies - Michel Weststrate
• Fiverr Talks: Building an Assertion Library with Javascript Proxy, Evyatar Alush
• Writing a JS Proxy based assertion function
• Partytown
• Qwik
• Web Worker
• XmlHttpRequest
• Generic
• Party Town Proxy

Timejumps

• 00:48 Guest introduction
• 01:45 What are JavaScript proxies?
• 04:08 What might a developer use this for?
• 07:01 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:02 How are the proxies delivered?
• 14:31 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 15:33 Where is this being used?
• 19:05 Do proxies allow for random access?
• 20:30 When do you think about performance?
• 27:22 When should people bring this into their codebase?
• 29:38 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.