Ian Macartney

Let's build a full-stack chat app to talk to ChatGPT on its new API!

In this post, we’ll look at some helper functions to help write code to traverse relationships in a readable, predictable, and debuggable way.

In this post we’ll look at some patterns for structuring relationships in the Convex database.

Using mutations to migrate data in Convex.

There are as many ways to migrate data as there are databases, but here’s some basic information to set the stage.

Did you know you can use the Convex Dashboard to run functions, enter seed data, filter & delete data, upload files, and more?

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.

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.

Implement asynchronous job patterns using a table to track progress. Fire-and-forget, cancelation, timeouts, and more.

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.

Use Convex to fetch an image from OpenAI’s image generation service based on a user-provided prompt.

Building multiplayer games requires a lot of synchronization logic and event systems. However, using Convex, we get a lot of this for free! Follow along here as we build a complex multiplayer game on Convex, leveraging its reactive-by-default queries, transactional mutations, backend storage, and scheduled functions.

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.

Function validation is important for a production app because you can’t always control which clients are talking to your server. See how to use zod to validate your Convex functions, using our withZod wrapper.

Using wrapper functions like withUser can help you organize your code into middleware-like blocks that you can compose to keep your function logic concise.

Some patterns for incorporating presence into a web app leveraging Convex, and sharing some tips & utilities I built along the way.

For write-heavy applications, use single flighting to dynamically throttle requests. See how we implement this with React hooks for Convex.

Today we’re going to talk about how to flip features on and off remotely using a clever use of the reactive nature of Convex queries.