itslekan•4w ago

My current working solution is to go to

My current working solution is to go to prod after deployment and run the convex function using the dashboard

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erquhart•4w ago

I think you're looking for migrations: https://www.convex.dev/components/migrations

Convex

Migrations

Framework for long running data migrations of live data.

erquhart•4w ago

As far as when your production backend updates compared to your frontend, the general approach is to make non-breaking updates to your backend. It's really tough to try and guarantee one is deployed before/after the other. I may be missing something about your use case, let me know if so.

itslekanOP•4w ago

Okay I just saw this flag --prod so what if I do something like this in my package.json

"scripts": {
    "dev": "concurrently \"bun dev:backend\" \"bun dev:frontend\"",
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start",
    "dev:backend": "convex dev",
    "dev:frontend": "next dev",
    "prebuild": "convex dev --run init --until-success --prod",
    "predev": "convex dev --run init --until-success",
    "lint": "next lint"
  },

"scripts": {
    "dev": "concurrently \"bun dev:backend\" \"bun dev:frontend\"",
    "build": "next build",
    "start": "next start",
    "dev:backend": "convex dev",
    "dev:frontend": "next dev",
    "prebuild": "convex dev --run init --until-success --prod",
    "predev": "convex dev --run init --until-success",
    "lint": "next lint"
  },

so specifically that prebuild

erquhart•4w ago

Assuming that init function is successfully running your migrations, that should work (or running whatever you want to run on deploy to prod)

itslekanOP•4w ago

yh init runs something let's call it a migration it just seeds my database if something are missing the prebuild says convex DEV though I asked the convex ai and there isn't some convex prod cli command

erquhart•4w ago

oh duh yeah not dev you just want to run the function convex run

erquhart•4w ago

https://docs.convex.dev/cli#run-convex-functions

CLI | Convex Developer Hub

The Convex command-line interface (CLI) is your interface for managing Convex

itslekanOP•4w ago

Okay thank you so much I think I understand now

erquhart•4w ago

"prebuild": "convex run init --prod"

itslekanOP•4w ago

yh exactly

Starlord•4w ago

how does app know if it has to connect to dev or prod environment? based on process.env?

erquhart•4w ago

yeah environment variables well, typically anyway. Your client goes off of the url you pass to the convex client, which is typically CONVEX_URL or something. Your local dev cli uses CONVEX_DEPLOYMENT I believe, which is set in your .env.local during local dev

Starlord•4w ago

ok understand. because i run currently only in dev deployment and my production environment app still can connect to dev automatically without problem

erquhart•4w ago

Yeah they're both cloud instances

My current working solution is to go to

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