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erquhart

Support for serializing undefined values

I like that Convex supports 
undefined
undefined
 as a value via unsetting. I avoid 
null
null
 throughout my entire app, but that leaves me working around communicating undefined values from the client to the backend.

Would be cool if Convex's react and backend libs could work together to support 
undefined
undefined
 as a serializable value, maybe by using a special value under the hood. My current plan is to probably go through my app and use null everywhere that the client wants to send 
undefined
undefined
, and then convert the nulls to undefined in my mutations, but would love to not need to do this.

Also open to smarter workarounds, especially if they save time.
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