What are the proper practices to using bindable functions in a game?

[bright gorge]

I need to use server-sided bindable's for various functions, but dont wanna get caught lacking my exploiters, what do i do?

[timid gulch]

What do you want to do exactly that u need to use them?

[bright gorge]

im trying to use them for events for picking up items, generating the map, etc

And i need to ensure players cannot do that

[timid gulch]

I mean u could use remote events instead to be safe

Also why'd you need a bendable event for picking up items and generating a map

[bright gorge]

i need server scripts to communicate with eachother

as opposed to client scripts

also the pick up mechanic isnt really player based

so i cant rely on using client scripts

[bronze bloom]

If you use a bindable function and a server script fires it, clients can't see or manipulate it. Same with the other side, server cannot see what the client does with that bindable function

[bright gorge]

ohh so as long as i dont use it on the client its perfectly safe?

[bronze bloom]

Yes and even if you do use it on the client the server can't even see that request

[bright gorge]

omg tysm this is huge to me!!!

[bronze bloom]

Np

[rich moth]

is there an actual use for bindable events/functions just kinda just seems like a bandaid fix for bad script architecture?

[desert tangle]

its to let the same run context scripts know when to do something

[upper fulcrum]

I kinda use for my sliding mechanism where I want physics to be done on the client, it could also be used to time things properly

ofcourse with small delays

but its better than just guessin

[rich moth]

would you not just use module scripts tho?

[upper fulcrum]

you need to communicate between the server and the client, neither the client or server can access eachother bindable functions

[rich moth]

maybe im missing something

[upper fulcrum]

also they are unsafe they can be used to ddos your game

so you need to have ddos protections

suphi module has like built in ddos protection, so I use that when I need infromation from the client, within like a deadline

[desert tangle]

which

packet?

[rich moth]

ddos would just apply to remote event/fucntions no?

[upper fulcrum]

yup packet

[upper fulcrum]

oh wait remote functions mb

I confused the two

but ye,

[rich moth]

yea I understand remote functions thats fine but bindabale functions I dunno bro

[upper fulcrum]

nah bindable functions are kinda useless 😭

[rich moth]

like with modules you:
1.dont need to set uo listeners
2.dont need to use instances in ur explorer
3. cleaner flow of code

[rich moth]

yea like im not sure why people use bindable events/functions

[upper fulcrum]

though tbh, sometimes you need to listen to events using bindable remotes and functions like the use case is really specific

sometimes it'll be much more cleaner to just use a bindable remote/ funciton

or less of a hassle

[desert tangle]

i started hating packet when something errors when it shouldnt error lmao 😭

something with boolean

i forget

[upper fulcrum]

ik what you mean, but once you get the hand of it its pretty easy to use

[rich moth]

yea the only use case I think of is that you already made a system but you dont want to confgure it so it plays well with other scripts so you just use a bindable event as a bandaid fix....

[upper fulcrum]

you might also use it in OOP, when you want to create a new yk custom property

and you want listeners for it

but then signal modules are just much better for that ngl

[rich moth]

yea fair

[upper fulcrum]

tbh after singal modules I literally only used bindable event just once and it was a bandaid fix as you said

signal are just more cleaner and are gc'ed automatically

and faster too

with bindable remotes however you are going to have to manually delete them, destroy their connections etc

which is a huge hassle ngl, even if you use a maid

[desert tangle]

isnt maid kinda oldschool tho

i use trove

[upper fulcrum]

I'm not sure, maid does a fine job for me so I didn't look for other alternatives

[rich moth]

speaking of trove when you clean up a table using trove i assume you still have to set it to nil after you have called its destroy function right? only just started using trove

[upper fulcrum]

but all maid modules just do is destroy things

whether its connections

objects

etc

[timid gulch]

Well I've never used it but you could do those already pretty easily I think