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Update: You can now view your data transformations from within the Snaplet web app!
To create the best experience for our users, we constantly reiterate and refine our product according to your feedback. Since publishing the post below, more and more users requested the ability to validate their data transformations before restoring a snapshot, all from within the online app. So we created the Snapshot Data Browser.
-> Read the blog post: X-ray vision for your snapshots - introducing the Snapshot Data Browser
Updated on 22 November 2023
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Some things in life are just better together.
Toast and butter. Macaroni and cheese. Burgers and fries. Gin and tonic. Add one more to that list today, as we reveal JavaScript Transformations and Proxy. Awesome individually, even better when they work together.
JavaScript Transformations - data anonymization as simple as code.
Let’s talk JavaScript Transformations first: We know that coding against no data (or unrealistic data) sucks. We built Snaplet so you could spend more time coding against production-accurate data, and less time doing everything else, like wrangling that data out of your database to code against. Until now, our domain specific language has allowed you to de-identify your data easily enough, albeit with a language that we invented, so you had to look up a reference for how to transform values. We want to keep you in flow; keep you focused on coding, which is why we now integrate into your development workflow by providing you with the ability to safely transform your data using a language you already know: JavaScript! 🧑💻
Watch Snaplet co-founder Peter Pistorius explain more about how JavaScript Transformations and Proxy work:
JavaScript Transformations and Proxy play nicely with Copycat, our library for generating deterministic fake values. You can also continue to use Faker to create fake data if you’re more used to that.
We hope you find JavaScript Transformations and Proxy useful. It’s our mission to give you safe, production-accurate data effortlessly in your dev environment, so you can focus on shipping. If you’ve got a request for a Snaplet feature that’d help you ship, come tell us about it in our Discord, and we’d love to hook you up with some swag!
Read more:
-> See how to obfuscate sensitive data with Snaplet and Javascript.
-> See why Snaplet snapshot is a better database dump (Postgres pg_dump).
-> See how Snaplet generate is a better seed script.
