Billing question regarding counting function calls....
Hi guys, I have a little question regarding what is counted as function call. This would influence how I design a few things in my app
Question 1: if I call queries or mutations from the FE, they are counted towoards the function calls. correct? (thi is more or less a sanity check)
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Lets assume I have the following:
query: getTodo (id:string)
- this will get a dodo from db
query: getMultipleTodos(ids: string[])
- return ids.map(id => cts.runQuery(getTodo(id))
basically, getMultipleTodos will call getTodo multiple times, but this is in the convex folder, in the query def.
case 1: if I iterate over the todo ids in FE and I call getTodo for each one (N times) => this si counted as N function calls?
case2: I call getMultipleTodos from FE. This will generate multiple queries in the "be". Is this counted as 1 function call or as N+1 calls?
I am asking because this would affect the way code is shared in the BE, because I can extract the ctx.db.get from the getTodo and reuse it in both getTodo and getMultipleTodos in order to avoid hitting cts.runQuery
Thanks
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Case 1:
If you call getTodo for each ID from the frontend (so
N separate calls), this will result in N function calls: one for each query you make from the client.
Case 2:
1 function call for getMultipleTodos (from the FE)
N additional function calls for each ctx.runQuery(getTodo, { id }) inside the backend
So basically N+1 function calls
You should use a typescript function instead of creating a seperate query!!!
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