Returning response from runQuery in a query breaks typescript
As seen in the included images: in the first image I return data from the
runQuery and now the entire function and everything in it resolves to any. When I remove the return (or change it to something like return 1) the types work again. I've had this before with actions as well. I think the issue is with runQuery because when I return data I get from ctx.db it works fine.
I guess this is a bug? I can't find anything in the docs that state I shouldn't return data from runQuery. Or is there something else that I might be doing wrong?
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Extracted the logic from the queries to functions and using them in both queries now. This resolved my issue.
I'd guess you were running into something like https://docs.convex.dev/functions/actions#dealing-with-circular-type-inference, and generally adding some more explicit type annotations helps.
But also splitting logic into helper functions is the better pattern vs.
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