Eva
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
Another question I have is where to put my tests? For example, previously I had written unit tests for all my queries and mutations using convex-test. I can relocate the innards of the function into /model, and the tests still pass like before, but the actual logic being tested is elsewhere. Should I relocate the tests too, or is it still good to test the actual endpoint?
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
I really appreciate the other Stack primer articles like this, they go a long way toward educating people about best practices
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
It would be nice to have a Stack article! A primer on API/model organization like “here’s why to put your functions in a separate model layer, here are the benefits and drawbacks of this approach, here’s what Convex does to support this, here’s what we recommend”
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
I do think it would be helpful to make note of this in more places in the docs, especially for new users who are just getting familiar with Convex. The way that the tutorial is set up could make this clearer.
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
@AlphaOmega This was my initial hurdle too. I think the intent of this change is that the model functions can be different from the API endpoints you expose. So it makes things more maintainable over time, because you don't have endpoints calling other endpoints.
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
I relocated all the innards of my queries and mutations — anyone willing to peek at the changes and provide thoughts or recommendations on organization? https://github.com/namesakefyi/namesake/pull/442/files
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
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CCConvex Community
•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
This is a handy rule, thank you!
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
Probably a consequence of having spent most of my time as a frontend engineer and not a backend one. But slowly getting more familiar with how to build things for the backend, too!
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
the code in all convex directory files should be entirely focused on exposure of functionality, while the model directory is where all of the inner workings of your backend livesTbh I'm not entirely sure where to draw that line between internal / external. It feels a little hazy, which is maybe part of what's leading to my confusion
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•Created by Eva on 3/17/2025 in #support-community
Why is calling Convex queries/mutations directly an anti-pattern?
helping folks understand convex directory exports as api endpoints, rather than serverless functions that also happen to be endpointsI knew this was a thing but it definitely wasn't the primary way I was conceptualizing
/convex. That's helpful!46 replies
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•Created by Eva on 3/11/2025 in #support-community
Recommended migrations workflow for local environments
I've decided to circumvent the local migrations entirely for now and just wipe/re-seed the db, which should hopefully encourage improving the seed setup since data won't persevere.
Followup q: is there a straightforward way to seed a default user using Convex Auth? Right now I can seed users to my
users table, but it doesn't include any of the auth credentials. Would love to have a way to seed dummy accounts in different states / with different data and permissions.13 replies
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•Created by Eva on 3/11/2025 in #support-community
Recommended migrations workflow for local environments
Thank you for the detailed answer! Super helpful to have all the options spelled out.
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CCConvex Community
•Created by Eva on 3/11/2025 in #support-community
Recommended migrations workflow for local environments
For the recommended one-liner:
do you recommend putting that in a script and running it before seed? Or is there a more Convex-y way to do that as part of the
seed.ts itself13 replies
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•Created by Eva on 3/11/2025 in #support-community
Recommended migrations workflow for local environments
Hm, asked Kapa in #Recommended migrations workflow for local environments and got the recommendation to just delete and re-seed data as mentioned in the MVP guide
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CCConvex Community
•Created by Eva on 2/10/2025 in #general
Why no _updatedTime
Oh! Really helpful to know. Not sure why I thought otherwise
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CCConvex Community
•Created by Eva on 2/10/2025 in #general
Why no _updatedTime
Organizing by domain would simplify things. Can you nest them in folders?
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CCConvex Community
•Created by Eva on 2/10/2025 in #general
Why no _updatedTime
Also unclear to me where things are required to live within
/convex and what is open to the author to modify — I remember reading about some restrictions but I'm not 100% sure what they were so I've just been adding a .ts file for each table to contain its queries and mutations19 replies