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•Created by alextana on 3/24/2025 in #questions

user data encryption

thanks, this is really helpful! I will look into these 👍 it's a whole area I've never looked into before, all this stuff gets managed by other people at work hah!

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/24/2025 in #questions

user data encryption

thanks! Looking at E2E as well and I'm keen to try that out at some point, for now I'll go with this 😄 - the only thing I don't like about this approach is the key management, but it's definitely more than at the moment!

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/24/2025 in #questions

user data encryption

(this is all for a side project btw, non production or work code - just exploring)

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/24/2025 in #questions

user data encryption

hey all, thanks for the replies - I looked into it more, I will probably use hashing for comparing data and other optimisations, I wanted to not store user data in plain text in the database, that's the only problem I was trying to solve I ended up using crypto-js AES to encrypt the data server side, just before sending it to the DB, with an environment variable as the key, then when I need to read it in the front-end it gets decrypted when fetching from the endpoint (also server side) seems to work but I don't know if there are any potential issues with it yet

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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just pushed a first prototype here if you're interested: https://github.com/alextana/dragdrop-lib / demo: https://dragdrop-lib.vercel.app

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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thanks by the way, very helpful!

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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ah I think I've seen his previous video hahah

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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I've always used them interchangeably, like, if I used interface somewhere else I'll use interface again kinda thing

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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what's the reasoning behind it?

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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ahh! yeah, it's also less confusing, thanks 🙂

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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good point

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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it'd basically be a collection of lists - I guess actually I need to take into account that someone might want to pass only one list

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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yeah

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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In the end I solved by doing something like this:

interface IDType {
  id: number | string
}

export function useDragDrop<T extends IDType>(items: Array<T[]>): { lists: Ref<Array<T[]>> } {

interface IDType {
  id: number | string
}

export function useDragDrop<T extends IDType>(items: Array<T[]>): { lists: Ref<Array<T[]>> } {

There was a gotcha with Vue's reactivity that needed sorting out but it now seems to be behaving as expected

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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Thanks!

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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Yeah fair point - I’ll do some more reading about generics

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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then whatever else people pass in that object I don't really care

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•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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I can then check if at least id is present in every item of the list at runtime

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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I have a function like: export function useDragDrop(items: Array<object>) { // do stuff } what I need to define is that object type, but I think type object is probably good enough as I was reading here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18961203/any-vs-object

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TTCTheo's Typesafe Cult

•Created by alextana on 3/1/2023 in #questions

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what I would like to say is - const list = Array<MyType> but my type is kind of unknown, I don't really know what people are going to have in their lists, is it generics I need to look at? Cause any is not really acceptable, don't want people sending up something that's not an object without at least an id

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