convex-best-practices

Handle Convex errors by throwing ConvexError for user-facing messages in your mutations. This pattern separates client-facing validation failures from internal server logic faults, ensuring reliable error handling across your backend workflows.

Structure Convex queries by organizing functions into domain-specific modules and prefer indexed queries over broad filtering. This reduces unnecessary database work and keeps your real-time backend architecture maintainable as it scales.

Make Convex mutations idempotent by implementing retry-safe data update patterns within your function logic. This prevents duplicate records and reduces conflicts when network issues cause clients to retry dashboard or booking operations.

Yes, you need explicit return validators for Convex queries and mutations. End-to-end TypeScript typing with defined input and output validators keeps client and server logic aligned, reducing runtime data structure errors.

TypeScript validation in Convex works by defining validators for function inputs and outputs, ensuring end-to-end type safety. This alignment between client and server logic prevents untyped data from breaking your real-time application workflows.

Use indexed queries instead of broad filtering in Convex to improve performance and reduce unnecessary database work. Indexed queries efficiently locate specific records, which is critical for maintaining fast response times in real-time portals and dashboards.