JavaScript Proxies with Evyatar Alush on Web Rush #216

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?

Direct link to the episode.

const podcast = { 
  episode: 216,
  title: 'JavaScript Proxies',
  topics: [ 
    'JavaScript', 'proxy', 'Immutability'
  ],
  guest: 'Evyatar Alush'
  hosts: [
    'Craig Shoemaker'
  ]
};

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.