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The Shadow Types

for convex side code (e.g. an action calling a query) i import

api

api

internal

internal

from an alternative set of types

import { api, internal } from "../../_convex/shadow";

import { api, internal } from "../../_convex/shadow";

these being generated by the convex helpers which is fully materialized, just the way components already are in the standard

_generated/api.d.ts

_generated/api.d.ts

this allows

FunctionReturnType

FunctionReturnType

to just work on the action reference, and we get full typing (no ts circular error), without creating extra hard coded types
catch is, anytime time the query the action uses changes, we need to re run the convex helper
but this seems better than manually updating duplicate explicit types?

The Shadow Types

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