![]() React also takes advantage of asynchronous execution, so you can be downloading multiple streams of data, and progressively updating the user interface as more data becomes available. Most of the execution is done in the user’s browser, not on the server. ![]() I’m using React, a JavaScript library that allows for component-based user interfaces. In contrast, my new tool does very little on the server. By comparison, APIs are more likely to not change, because their specific purpose is to deliver raw-ish data, not a user interface. So that could become a maintenance nightmare. Every time IMVU decides to change something that affects the web site, it can mess with your code that depends on certain assumptions. ![]() Another advantage of the APIs is that they are typically more stable than web page scrapes. The new APIs are faster and easier to work with. I believe it was created before IMVU introduced their JSON APIs, so it probably involves a lot of web page scraping. The original tool does everything at the server. It’s a great idea, but it’s hit or miss in operation. The issue is that the IMVUOutfits tool often crashes, and it can take minutes to complete. You right-click in the IMVU chat window, select “View products in this scene”, copy the URL, and paste it into a text box and click “GO”. It’s a bit of a clone of the tool created by, which does much of the same thing. I’ve introduced a new tool to expose hidden IMVU outfits. 2020 was a rough year for reasons above and beyond the COVID mess. It’s been over a year since I added anything to this blog.
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