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Add an implementation for `JSValueEncoder`

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, swift, wasm
Domain
api, web-dev

Research direction

Start by reading the existing JSValueDecoder implementation and its surrounding API to understand how JavaScript values are represented. Design and implement the corresponding JSValueEncoder so arbitrary Encodable values can be converted to JSValue, then add coverage showing that representative Encodable values round-trip through the encoder and decoder.

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Description

enhancement

Do I understand correctly that there's no easy way right now to convert an arbitrary Encodable type to JSValue? We already have JSValueDecoder, but apparently lack the opposite for Encodable...

Dominant language
Swift
Stars
986
Forks
76
Avg merge
21h 11m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

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