Sharing an array between Convex and UI?
In the app I'm building for work, I have some data that (ideally) should be shared between Convex and my front-end UI, and I'm not sure how best to accomplish this.
As an example, I have a table of contacts. One of the fields in this table is
One idea that came to mind was to do the following:
* Create the array of options in one of my Convex files
* Transform that into a validator for use in the schema and appropriate query/mutation functions (using the
* Make a Convex query function that returns the array, to be used in my UI code via
The first two are the no-brainers. The last item, though, I'm not sure about. Is it bad form to make a query that doesn't actually query the database? Is there a better way to go about this?
As an example, I have a table of contacts. One of the fields in this table is
currentStateOne idea that came to mind was to do the following:
* Create the array of options in one of my Convex files
* Transform that into a validator for use in the schema and appropriate query/mutation functions (using the
literals()* Make a Convex query function that returns the array, to be used in my UI code via
useQuery()The first two are the no-brainers. The last item, though, I'm not sure about. Is it bad form to make a query that doesn't actually query the database? Is there a better way to go about this?
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