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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 22:24:29 JST Aral Balkan

   There are times I think JavaScript (and Node.js) do deserve their reputation…

   (Ok, ok, I don’t, but what is this, really?)

   “Date.prototype.toISOString called on incompatible receiver [object Date]”

   *smh*

   #nodeJS #javaScript #js #web #dev

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 18:27:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     So in case, anyone was following this: it appears that built-in objects like Date in JavaScript have some internal magic (read: inconsistencies)* that means you can’t proxy them as you would normally.

     More info: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/issues/5

     Not sure if this is fixable in JSDB. The “solution” might be to discourage use of Date objects and instead persist timestamps. Which is, quite frankly, a pain in the ass.

     I’ll keep looking for a workaround…

     * internal slots

     #nodeJS #javaScript #js #web #dev

   • Daniel (dan@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 18:31:06 JST Daniel

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     @aral this wording mentioning 'receiver' makes me feel like a Proxy instance was involved, but they're not really used much outside testing frameworks I think :P

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 18:31:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Daniel

     @dan Yep. Bloody inconsistencies…

     Proxies are definitely used outside of testing frameworks. e.g., see https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb which is entirely built on them ;)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 20:02:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     Right, implemented workaround to JavaScript’s Proxy / Date object incompatibility in JavaScript Database (JSDB)¹ and released in version 3.0.1².

     Calling methods on persisted Date objects read back into memory now works as it should.

     Workaround (diff): https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/commit/9e039e76f7a149df2fa7ecbbf626f813e44c0ab2

     Kudos to Pravin Divraniya for https://stackoverflow.com/a/57958494

     ¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb
     ² https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/jsdb

     #JSDB #JavaScript #JS #database #SmallTech #Date #Proxy #web #dev