Chad Maycumber•2y ago

Best way to use in something like Retool

Is there a recommended approach to leverage convex in something like retool? I figure I can just leverage the cloud url w/ special syntax or formatting to make the requests?

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ballingt•2y ago

Yep, using the Convex HTTP client should work well. If you need auth to run protected mutations etc. I'd use a secret token, a random string you add as an environment variable or hardcode, instead of auth.getUserIdentity() since it would be hard to get a clerk/auth0 identity token from a retool scheduled job.

ballingt•2y ago

@Chad Maycumber does using the ConvexHttpClient https://docs.convex.dev/api/classes/browser.ConvexHttpClient work for you for this, or do you want to make raw fetch requests to the CONVEX_URL?

Class: ConvexHttpClient | Convex Developer Hub

browser.ConvexHttpClient

ian•2y ago

In ReTool there are two primary ways you can structure Convex as a resource (assuming you don't want to make a Convex http endpoint to expose a graphQL or OpenAPI spec): 1. JavaScript query 2. REST API

ian•2y ago

1: You can write code using the HTTP client like:

const client = await import("https://esm.run/convex/browser");
convex = new client.ConvexHttpClient("https://keen-llama-684.convex.cloud");
return await convex.query("getCounter");

const client = await import("https://esm.run/convex/browser");
convex = new client.ConvexHttpClient("https://keen-llama-684.convex.cloud");
return await convex.query("getCounter");

ian•2y ago

2: You can use your backend's URL with /api/query or /api/mutation or /api/action and pass JSON arguments in the POST body like: path: "getCounter" args: [{arg1: "value"}]

Chad MaycumberOP•2y ago

Cool both these solutions should be find! Thanks for the help

Best way to use in something like Retool

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