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The full, unabridged story on how the Convex internals work.
Sujay Jayakar
a month ago
Read this article to learn how you can develop against our open-source backend using our packaged binaries.
Nipunn Koorapati
a month ago
Which to choose, the expressive power of code, or the robustness of built-in database features? With Convex, you can have both. By eliminating the boundary between the application and the database, Convex provides a uniform and powerful way to model your entire backend data flow and security using plain ol' code.
Jamie Turner
3 months ago
Learn how to automatically retry actions in Convex while also learning a little about scheduling, system tables, and function references.
James Cowling
3 months ago
Learn how to install and configure the Convex adapter for Auth.js.
Michal Srb
10 hours ago
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4:37:21
Build a File Storage App with Role Based Authorization (Next.js, Shadcn, Typescript)
108.1K views
2 months ago
Patterns
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Learn how to automatically retry actions in Convex while also learning a little about scheduling, system tables, and function references.
James Cowling
3 months ago
Online migrations in Convex using mutations. Including a helper to track migration state!
Ian Macartney
21 days ago
This post will cover various aspects of operational maturity, and steps to take as your app grows up.
Ian Macartney
a month ago
Learn about best practices for testing your full-stack apps - running on Convex or elsewhere!
Ian Macartney
a month ago
By setting up dedicated tools, you can get actionable data to help understanding errors, performance, user behavior and allow you respond quickly when things change.
Ian Macartney
2 months ago
Before you burden yourself with “best practices” for large-scale companies, focus on what will reduce your feedback cycles and help you ship early and often. Think about your use case, not your toolbox.
Ian Macartney
2 months ago
There’s a new Convex helper to perform generic TypeScript filters, with the same performance as built-in Convex filters, and unlimited potential.
Lee Danilek
2 months ago
As your app grows from tens to hundreds to thousands of users, there are some techniques that will keep your database queries snappy and efficient. I’ve put together a short list of the most common techniques used by teams scaling on Convex.
Ian Macartney
3 months ago
With a simple `npm run dev` we can sign up a user for Convex, add seed data, and run the frontend and backend (including database) in parallel. Here's how we do it, and how to undo it too.
Ian Macartney
3 months ago
Perspectives
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Our CTO James gave a talk at Developer Week 2024 about how backends have been letting down product developers by not providing clean abstractions that empower development without introducing unnecessary complexity.
James outlines four major failures of the status quo:
* Bad ideas in query models
* Bad ideas in type systems
* Bad ideas in caching and performance
* Bad ideas in data sync
He explains why these exist, how they are holding back developers, and discusses recent innovations at Convex that address these four areas.
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Which to choose, the expressive power of code, or the robustness of built-in database features? With Convex, you can have both. By eliminating the boundary between the application and the database, Convex provides a uniform and powerful way to model your entire backend data flow and security using plain ol' code.
Walkthroughs
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Read this article to learn how you can develop against our open-source backend using our packaged binaries.
Nipunn Koorapati
a month ago
Our CTO James gave a talk at Developer Week 2024 about how backends have been letting down product developers by not providing clean abstractions that empower development without introducing unnecessary complexity.
James outlines four major failures of the status quo:
* Bad ideas in query models
* Bad ideas in type systems
* Bad ideas in caching and performance
* Bad ideas in data sync
He explains why these exist, how they are holding back developers, and discusses recent innovations at Convex that address these four areas.
James Cowling
2 months ago
22:05
Web Dev Cody guides viewers in creating a comprehensive full stack file storage application on YouTube. The tutorial covers features like organizations, file upload, management, role-based authorization, authentication, cron deletes, favorites, trash functionality, and various UI components such as dialogs, modals, toasts, dropdowns, and more.
Web Dev Cody
2 months ago
4:37:21
Hi all 👋 In this 8 hour tutorial you will learn how to create an end-to-end fullstack notion clone, all with proper notion-style editor, cover images, nested documents, publishing documents to public, real-time database and more.
Code With Antonio
7 months ago
7:53:12
Check out Convex, an incredibly well-designed Firebase alternative that provides a realtime database, object storage, server functions, http API hosting, cron jobs and more!
Jack Herrington
9 months ago
25:16
Learn how to use Auth.js with your Next.js server and Convex backend to build a full-featured authentication system.
Michal Srb
11 hours ago
A tutorial on how to create a clone of WhatsApp with OpenAI built with React.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS Convex, Clerk and ZegoCloud.
As a Programmer
a month ago
5:20:45
A tutorial on how to create a fully functional clone of Eraser.io with Convex using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
TubeGuruji
2 months ago
4:58:29
I recently built a full-stack app called notesGPT. It allows you to record a voice note, transcribes it, and extract action items and display them as action items. It’s fully open source and comes equipped with authentication, storage, vector search, action items, and is fully responsive on mobile for ease of use.
Hassan El Mghari
3 months ago
20:45
Using Convex, 4 web devs built their own fullstack app based on this prompt:
> Build a way to show real-time updates on the website for a Dungeons and Dragons-themed small business!
See what they built, learn how they did it, and watch their reactions to each other's work in this installment of the "4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea" video series.
Jason Lengstorf
4 months ago
This year vector databases have sprung up like mushrooms to enable applications to retrieve context based on semantic search. A large portion of these applications have used the retrieved context to augment the ability of large language models (LLMs) in a pattern known as RAG. On November 7th OpenAI released its Assistants API, enabling the implementation of AI chat interfaces with context retrieval without needing a separate message store or vector database. Does this new API make vector databases obsolete?
Michal Srb
6 months ago
Convex is a full-stack development platform and cloud database, including built-in vector search. In this third post in our [series](https://stack.convex.dev/ai-chat-using-openai-assistants-api), we’ll build an AI-powered chat interface using Convex, with our own message storage and context retrieval.
Michal Srb
6 months ago
In this second post in our series, we’ll build an AI-powered chat interface using LangChain and its new Convex integration.
Michal Srb
6 months ago
On November 7th OpenAI released its Assistants API, enabling chat bot with context retrieval implementations without needing a messages or vector database. In this post, we’ll cover how to leverage this API to build a fully functioning AI chat interface.
Michal Srb
6 months ago
Stream GPT responses without brittle browser-based HTTP streaming.
Multiplayer reactivity, persistence, reactivity via Convex. Using OpenAI’s Node SDK server-side, and Convex's useQuery hook client-side.
Ian Macartney
6 months ago
Generating rhyming words via GPT-4, along with Dall-E cartoon images and ElevenLabs speaking with a specific voice to make a game to teach words.
Web Dev Cody
8 months ago
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