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Re:How to Hack APIs in 2021 by capableweb on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:41AM (#28139539)
I have implemented plenty of SPA (for years) that use the pattern of A) allow the user to download their current state as JSON/EDN and then B) allow the user to upload a new state from JSON/EDN file and continue from where they last downloaded their state.

This has been easy to implement for as long as I can remember, so not sure why'd you say it's terrible. What stopped you previous times?

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Re:How to Hack APIs in 2021 by tonyarkles on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:02AM (#28155139)
Ok, so that’s kind of what I figured was the current state of things. Compared to being able to hit “Save” and have a local copy updated, that’s a pretty subpar workflow. I get why it’s like that (preventing a sandboxed website from being about to update files on the local filesystem) but...
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