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If you've been itching to write Convex programs in Rust, your time has come. We take the new Convex Rust crate for a spin by writing a distributed system simulation of Santa and his team working together at the North Pole. Yes, really.
Convex gets Rusty with Santa
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Jamie Turner
19 days ago
Convex provides automatic type safety all the way from your database schema to your React app. How does it work? Hint: we use some wild TypeScript.
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Alex Cole
a month ago
Let's build a full-stack chat app to talk to ChatGPT on its new API!
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Ian Macartney
3 months ago
Is your project in Airtable ready for more code and less no-code? I’ve published some code to help you migrate your data into Convex.
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Kate Rudolph
13 days ago
Implementing row-level security on Convex as a library. Wrap access to the database with access checks written in plain old JS / TS.
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Lee Danilek
21 days ago
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Writing per-table rules for per-document read/modify/insert authorization.
Implementing row-level security on Convex as a library. Wrap access to the database with access checks written in plain old JS / TS.
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Lee Danilek
21 days ago
Code for joining queries with helpers for one-to-many, many-to-many, and more.
In this post, we’ll look at some helper functions to help write code to traverse relationships in a readable, predictable, and debuggable way.
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Ian Macartney
a month ago
Implementing a migration with our "migration" helper
Using mutations to migrate data in Convex.
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Ian Macartney
a month ago
Your document is safely stored, but search is coming up empty? Inconsistent search systems can really confuse users! Don't worry–in Convex, transactional search indexing ensures that users always get what they expect and your apps just work.
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Jamie Turner
3 months ago
Adding advanced HTTP Endpoint functionality by extending Convex with Hono.
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Sarah Shader
3 months ago
Reactive backends like Convex make building live-updating apps a cinch, but default behavior might be too reactive for some use cases. Not to worry! Let’s fine-tune the reactive dataflow of a Convex + React app to deliver a better UX.
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Anjana Vakil
3 months ago
Implement asynchronous job patterns using a table to track progress. Fire-and-forget, cancelation, timeouts, and more.
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Ian Macartney
4 months ago
Getting users to sign up for a new service before seeing any benefits is challenging. In this post, we looked at a couple of strategies for managing user information without requiring a login.
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Ian Macartney
4 months ago
How to implement session storage with Convex, using some helper functions we wrote. While most of your data is associated with a user or another document, sometimes you have data that is specific to a user’s browser tab, or associated with a user who isn’t logged in. Some of this data is stored on the client, such as in the browser’s `sessionStorage` or `localStorage`, while other data is stored on the server.
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Ian Macartney
4 months ago
Alex Cole discusses dynamic web apps, how serverless solutions compare to in-house stacks, and how product development changes when individual engineers can own features end-to-end.
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Dynamic application developers need global state management, not a database. James (@jamesacowling) presents his talk from the HYTRADBOI 2022 database conference on how Convex is rethinking how app developers manage global state.
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Your document is safely stored, but search is coming up empty? Inconsistent search systems can really confuse users! Don't worry–in Convex, transactional search indexing ensures that users always get what they expect and your apps just work.
Searching for Sanity
If you've been itching to write Convex programs in Rust, your time has come. We take the new Convex Rust crate for a spin by writing a distributed system simulation of Santa and his team working together at the North Pole. Yes, really.
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Jamie Turner
19 days ago
Convex gets Rusty with Santa
Let's build a full-stack chat app to talk to ChatGPT on its new API!
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Ian Macartney
3 months ago
Many conversation threads with OpenAI's ChatGPT
You can build a database-powered app with end-to-end type safety and real-time updates without needing to learn how to manage databases. This tutorial will show you how.
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Jason Lengstorf
3 months ago
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Is your project in Airtable ready for more code and less no-code? I’ve published some code to help you migrate your data into Convex.
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Kate Rudolph
13 days ago
Migrating from Airtable to Convex
In this post, we’ll look at how to use the moderation API to flag messages before sending them to Chat-GPT, and patterns for handling these errors in a full-stack React app.
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Ian Macartney
3 months ago
Using the createModeration API to moderate code
How to store multiple personalities Convex and provide them to the chatGPT API, enabling changing personalities mid-conversation. This is a follow-up to Building a full-stack ChatGPT app.
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Ian Macartney
3 months ago
Identities for ChatGPT
Oftentimes during testing we want to mock out our backend so we can unit test our UI components without talking to our actual server code. In this article, we’ll explore options for testing React components that call Convex React hooks using mocking and dependency injection. To do this, I’ve written a sample TypeScript React app using the Vitest testing framework. The patterns presented in this post are also applicable to other JavaScript apps and frameworks.
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Implementing end-to-end encryption on top of Convex to build a secret-sharing app.
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Lee Danilek
4 months ago
The Whisper app for sending encrypted secrets
Hosted by Ian & Alex, with Alana (Readyset), Hojjat (Deltastream), Jamie (Convex).
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Today, a new wave of innovation is making databases approachable for developers without requiring a specialized skillset, opening the door to a whole new category of ambitious web experiences. In this panel, you’ll hear from the people pushing the boundaries of database technology and learn what’s possible — and what’s coming.
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Relational databases are powerful tools for persisting data, but using them to build interactive web apps requires a lot of work. A web app architecture built on a relational database is an entire cluster of databases, backends, caching nodes, and Pub/Sub servers. And even after you invest in all of that infrastructure you'll still need to explicitly define your database schema upfront and write cumbersome SQL queries. At Convex we believe that web developers shouldn't have to worry about any of this. We can handle the servers, caching, and reactivity and you can focus on your product.
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