JavaScript metaprogramming with ES2015 Proxy
summary
ES2015 introduces the Proxy API that intercepts fundamental operations — get, set, defineProperty, deleteProperty, ownKeys, has, apply, construct — enabling observables, access control, validation, logging and virtual objects backed by cookies or other storage. Proxies are revocable (revocable proxies) and must respect engine invariants (for example ownKeys invariant requires an array of string/symbol keys or a TypeError). Performance is currently costly (benchmarks show about a 45x slowdown for naïve uses) and Babel offers little emulation, while browsers work on optimizations.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03JavaScript metaprogramming
- 4:13Reflection in JavaScript
- 7:43Proxy API history
- 8:45How Proxy works
- 10:12Proxy traps explained
- 12:22Proxy invariants
- 13:05Revocable proxies
- 14:09Proxy performance
- 15:56Proxy browser support
- 16:38Proxy in frameworks
- 17:20Proxy examples
- 18:23Virtual objects with Proxy
- 19:06Securing built-ins with Proxy
- 20:09Unusual Proxy cases
- 20:30Summary and recommendations
- 21:12Q&A
