What is the correct way to “serialize” functions in javascript for later use

Question

I have a \"library\" of objects that I want to load on the fly from a database. Each object comes with its own special functions that are called at specific times depending

Answer 1

There is no right way to do this, because its not generally a good idea.

HOWEVER, if you want to do it anyways you can simply extend the prototype of Function with a .toJSON method.

Function.prototype.toJSON = function(){ return this.toString(); }

Then you can simply use JSON.stringify and functions will be serialized as strings.

Its generally a not good idea in most cases. There are very few circumstances where you want to do this and even then, there is probably a better way.