Using actions in queries and mutations
What is best practice for calling actions that
"use node" inside of queries - e.g. fetching data from 3rd party nodejs clients and using that data in return from a convex query? Seems can only call actions using scheduler, but then how can 3rd party data be used in queries / mutations directly?2 Replies
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The mutation can schedule an action with ctx.scheduler.runAfter, and then the action can call a mutation to save third party data with ctx.runMutation