Communicate between js and py

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how do i communicate between js and py

basically i couldn’t find a way to do the javascript database stuff so i want to use the python database but i can’t get the data from python to javascript

code:

from replit import db

db["key"] = "value"

# send db["key"] to script.js

// get db["key"] from python script

console.log(db["key"]);
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According to the official documentation, you need more JS than that (I assume you’re using NodeJS; for frontend JS I suggest creating a JSON API via Python Flask for your JS to access).

The official docs use this JS:

const Client = require("@replit/database");
const client = new Client();
await client.set("key", "value");
let key = await client.get("key");
console.log(key);

I’m not too familiar with JS but I’d say line 1 for sure is absolutely necessary.

I also cannot say for certain that ReplDB will persist between NodeJS and Python. I don’t know exactly how it works.

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What if you used a DB proxy to link the JS db code to the same db as used in Python.
Will it work you think?

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Should work although DB proxies are potentially unsafe. As long as the repl doesn’t need to be deployed a regular JSON file would be a much easier way to communicate.

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