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Replies for: I don't really see the point of your criticism of the practice of having multiple URI parameters with the same name. You point out that some develo...

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K • • Edited

I just had a common JavaScript data structure in mind.

const filters = {
  limit: 25,
  afterDate: Date.now(),
  names: ["Kay", "Xing", "Derric"]
}

But you are probably right, doing filters.names.join(",") isn't much simpler than filters.names.map(n => "name=" + n).join("&").