or Vercel's sql`INSERT INTO users VALUES ${user.id}`, which…

Samuel 22 Dec 2023

really goes to show how underappreciated modern web tooling is. API design like React's dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: ... }} means that you just don't see this shit in React projects

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or Vercel's sql`INSERT INTO users VALUES ${user.id}`, which due to the magic of tag functions is categorically impossible to inject stuff into

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stellz 22 Dec 2023

what I don't get about these is why they get their own special boy syntax when a regular function would do

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

cause then they can escape it for you

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

also looks cool which im sure is like 80% of it

macro brain

I’m sorry, im a sucker for tag functions

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stellz 22 Dec 2023

oh they're very cool. they're sort of a fix for weakness in the type system at the string-parsing boundary

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Samuel 22 Dec 2023

Interesting way of looking at it. Yeah, agreed

thought agent jabsco 🏁22 Dec 2023

for interpolation passing - the function ahead of the template string receives the values within ${} *before* serialization, so you can use it for stuff like passing a proxy object for reactive mapping