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So basically

    db.hello = {world: ["foo", "bar"]};

    db.set("hello", JSON.stringify(
      {world: ["foo", "bar"]}))

Why we don't have macros already.

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What do you mean by micros?

Anyway, yeah, it's just meant to be some sort of synchronous syntactic sugar on Redis.

Edit: I think you meant macros. In that case, consider that it's not as simple as that, because a) the redis library is only asynchronous, and b) such an approach requires to implement wrappers for every function that writes to the object, eg. Array.proto.splice.

Nice use of proxies and deasync. Will definitely make for cleaner code, and looks like a good simple pattern that can be implemented elsewhere.

Because in your second example you can not:

  var world = db.hello.world;
  world.push("baz");

We ~kind of~ do have macros in the form of preprocessors like Babel.

Probably not the best use of it though.

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