JavaScript as a Query Language: The Invisible RPC

Getting data from a JavaScript server is too complicated. I'm not saying that it's difficult but complicated. We have many options to do so but they all require us to rethink how we acquire that data. Let's say that I have some function defined on the server:

function createProfile({ name, email, password, photo }) {
    // ... (implementation irrelevant)
    return newProfile.id
}

This function does exactly what I want. I haven't yet …

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