Membranes are a powerful new feature enabled by Javascript proxies, with various use cases. The goal of a membrane is to fully isolate two object graphs. Before I can dive into more practical applications of membranes, I need to explain what a membrane is in more detail, so bear with me.
# What is a membrane?
A membrane is a wrapper around an entire object graph, as opposed to a wrapper for just a single object.
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Typically, the creator of a membrane starts out wrapping just a single object in a membrane. The key idea is that any object reference that crosses the membrane is itself transitively wrapped in the same membrane. Object references typically cross the membrane in one direction (out->in) by passing parameters to an object’s method, and in the opposite direction (in->out) by being returned as a value from a method or by being thrown as an exception.
To ease speaking about membranes, I will use the term “wet objects” for objects that live inside of the membrane, and the term “dry objects” to refer to objects that live outside of the membrane. page 